From Grieving to Joyful Living

From Grieving to Joyful Living You deserve peace of mind and to thrive, not just cope. And there is hope even when therapy and mindset coaching fail.

As a certified Life Mastery(TM) Consultant with the Life Mastery Institute® : The Premiere Training Center for Transformational Coaching, Dr. Birgitte Tan can help you create a life that you love living. Having been through and seen a multitude of grief in herself and her clients, Dr. Birgitte has learned to master and apply the art of transforming grief into timeless treasure of joyful living. As

a certified Grief Recovery Specialist and the founder and creator of “Dance Away Sadness: Move Beyond Your Grief” grief support system, she is fully qualified and capable to help those who are still traversing the dark valley of their life move through and beyond their grief. Through her skill in both grief recovery as well as transformational life coaching, she will lovingly help you move through and beyond the dark cold valley of your life to a warm sunny meadow of love, joy, peace of mind, and a life you truly love living. Dr. Birgitte is extremely excited to offer the Life Mastery(TM) programs as part of her suite of coaching programs. Through these programs, she helps you design and create what you would truly love to experience in the four key areas of your life:
- time/money freedom,
- health,
- relationships, and
- career and creative expression. She helps you become who you are meant to be, do what you are meant to do, and live a blessed life we all deserve.

06/19/2026

Have you ever noticed that Father's Day brings up something uncomfortable — not sadness exactly, but distance, irritation, numbness, or a quiet wish for the day to just be over?
If so, this is for you. Not because something obviously terrible happened. But because the body remembers things that never had words. The looking up and finding someone somewhere else. The learning, quietly and slowly, to stop asking.

If you or your loved one has ever felt out of step with what Father's Day is supposed to feel like and never understood why. And for those whose father is still here and still being who he has always been this article share more that help you navigate
https://open.substack.com/pub/birgittetan/p/why-fathers-day-hurts-even-when-nothing-ea3?r=594w58&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true



Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet-related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.



I am happy and grateful for postal and delivery service and their relentless dedication even when the weather is unpleas...
06/18/2026

I am happy and grateful for postal and delivery service and their relentless dedication even when the weather is unpleasant.💖😁
What are you grateful for this week?😃

And if you’re having a hard time right now— If gratitude feels impossible… or worse, like a cliché… or some oxymoron that belongs on a coffee mug and not in real life — My heart goes out to you, and I can only imagine how you feel.💙

Still, studies show that even in grief, one tiny thing we can honestly be grateful for—however small—can help us hold on.Not to bypass the pain… but to breathe through it.❤️‍🩹💞

You’re invited to join me in my Joyful Living Daily Gratitude, Affirmation, & Inspiration group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/217483258848074/Bring a friend. We don’t do toxic positivity. Just an honest, healing connection.



**The pesky little thing: Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.**



Meowdy!Is there a date coming up — or already here — that carries both a smile AND an ache at the same time?If so, Kit i...
06/16/2026

Meowdy!
Is there a date coming up — or already here — that carries both a smile AND an ache at the same time?

If so, Kit is saying "Hi" to you gently from his open purring heart, knowing that sometimes the most tender thing to understand is that "Even 'Good' Anniversaries Can Ache"

His whisker wisdom for us all: "Even 'Good' Anniversaries Can Ache."

I want to tell you about Teddy.
Teddy was Mamaw's cat before me. The one who came before I came to fill her heart too. And one day, Mamaw was sitting quietly and she started to smile. A real, warm, memory-smile. She was remembering the day Teddy first came home from the rescue — how funny he was, how confused, how perfectly HIM from the very first moment.

And then — right in the middle of that smile — her eyes went soft and wet.
Because the same day that made her laugh... also made her miss him with her whole heart.
I sat next to her. And I thought about the day I met Teddy — how nice he was to me, this new little interloper in his home. And thinking about it made me happy. And sad. Both. At the same time. In the same paw.

And Mamaw said: "That's not confusion, Kit. That's love."

Here's what I want to purr into your heart today: you do not have to choose between the joy of a good memory and the ache of the loss. You are not "doing grief wrong" because a happy anniversary still makes you cry. You are not "not healed enough" because a beautiful memory carries a sharp edge.

That is not a contradiction. That is what it means to have loved deeply.

Happy and sad are allowed to sit together. In the same moment. In the same paw. Without rushing either one away.

What about you: when you remember someone dear,can you let the smile and the ache share the same moment today?

And wherever you are, and I are here for you whether you want to celebrate or need a soft landing place, just message us.

If you'd like more of Kit's heartfelt wisdom, you'll find it in his book Sunbeam Days and Shadow Hours on Amazon: https://a.co/d/cl2OfT8 (A portion of net proceeds is donated to 501(c)(3) animal rescue organizations )



The pesky little thing: Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet-related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.

Have you ever lost a sibling and felt like the world expected you to hold it together — because surely it's the spouse, ...
06/12/2026

Have you ever lost a sibling and felt like the world expected you to hold it together — because surely it's the spouse, the parents, the children who are really grieving?

Sibling loss is one of the most underrecognized griefs there is. Whether from a relationship that's no longer here or one that was never here.

You may have lost your oldest friend. Your shared history. The only other person who truly knew what your childhood felt like from the inside. And yet the casseroles go to someone else's door.

But you feelings are valid and you don't have to earn the right to hurt.

One gentle thing to try: When you feel your grief being crowded out, place both hands over your heart and say quietly, "My loss is real. My love was real. I am allowed to grieve."

If this myth has been weighing on you or someone you care about, my heart goes out to you. Please know your feelings are real and valid. You don't have to navigate this alone. You're welcome to message me for support. Even after a long journey, help is still available when you reach out. And where there is help, there is hope.



Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet-related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.

I am happy and grateful for microwave so I can have warm food without heating up my kitchen.💖😁What are you grateful for...
06/11/2026

I am happy and grateful for microwave so I can have warm food without heating up my kitchen.💖😁
What are you grateful for this week?😃

And if you’re having a hard time right now— If gratitude feels impossible… or worse, like a cliché… or some oxymoron that belongs on a coffee mug and not in real life — My heart goes out to you, and I can only imagine how you feel.💙

Still, studies show that even in grief, one tiny thing we can honestly be grateful for—however small—can help us hold on.Not to bypass the pain… but to breathe through it.❤️‍🩹💞

You’re invited to join me in my Joyful Living Daily Gratitude, Affirmation, & Inspiration group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/217483258848074/Bring a friend. We don’t do toxic positivity. Just an honest, healing connection.



**The pesky little thing: Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.**



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Meowdy! 😃😺Are you hiding a little bit of your wonderful, weird, gloriously unique self from the world?If so, Kit is sayi...
06/09/2026

Meowdy! 😃😺

Are you hiding a little bit of your wonderful, weird, gloriously unique self from the world?

If so, Kit is saying "Hi" to you gently from his open purring heart, knowing that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is "Be Your Quirky Self, Even in a Crowd" 💗

⭐️ His whisker wisdom for us all: "Be Your Quirky Self, Even in a Crowd."

Let me tell you about the time I crashed Mamaw's Zoom call.

Not accidentally. Intentionally. 😄

I walked right across the keyboard, planted myself dead center on the screen, and did not move. Mamaw went pink. The humans on the other side laughed. And I thought — yes. Exactly. This is how it's done.

Because here's what I know from my whiskers to my tail: the world already has plenty of perfectly posed, carefully filtered, trying-so-hard-to-fit-in versions of people. 📱

What it is desperately short of is you. The real you. Your twitchy tail. Your weird laugh. Your offbeat opinions. The quirky little thing you do that makes people either giggle or stare — and honestly both are fine. 😄

Especially when you are grieving — or healing — or rebuilding — there can be this quiet pressure to present the "together" version. The one who has it figured out. The one who doesn't make the room uncomfortable.

But your realness? Your quirks? They are not a liability. They are your sparkle. ✨

And trying to dim that sparkle to blend in doesn't protect anyone — it just makes the world a little grayer and you a little more tired.

So fluff up. Stretch out. Walk across the keyboard if you must. 😺

Let the world meet the truest, most wonderfully quirky version of you — because THAT is the version someone out there is desperately waiting to feel less alone beside.

What about you: What's one little quirk you could let people see today? 🤗

And wherever you are, and I are here for you whether you want to celebrate or need a soft landing place, just message us. 🫶

If you'd like more of Kit's heartfelt wisdom, you'll find it in his book Sunbeam Days and Shadow Hours on Amazon: https://a.co/d/cl2OfT8 (A portion of net proceeds is donated to 501(c)(3) animal rescue organizations 😻😍)



The pesky little thing: Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet-related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.

Have you ever survived something, only to discover the hardest part came afterward?Today is National Cancer Survivors Da...
06/07/2026

Have you ever survived something, only to discover the hardest part came afterward?

Today is National Cancer Survivors Day.

People see the diagnosis.

The treatments.

The surgeries.

The scans.

What they don't always see is what can linger long after those things are over.

The moment you notice a new ache and your mind immediately goes there.

The scan that's weeks away, yet somehow occupies your thoughts every day.

The feeling that everyone else has moved on while part of you is still trying to catch your breath.

The quiet realization that cancer didn't just affect your body.

It affected your sense of safety.

Your trust.

Your relationship with the future.

If any of that feels familiar, please know there is nothing wrong with you.

You are not being dramatic.

You are not "stuck."

You are responding to something life-changing.

Many survivors spend months, even years, learning how to carry what happened to them.

Not because they're weak.

Because they're human.

And while healing often begins in the body, it doesn't end there.

The heart needs healing, too.

So does the nervous system.

So does the part of you that learned how quickly life can change.

You survived something extraordinary.

You deserve support for all of it.

Not just the parts the scans can see.

The scars people see are often not the ones that hurt the most.

If you're carrying some of those invisible scars today, I hope you'll offer yourself the same kindness you would offer someone you love.

There is help; thus, there is hope.



Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet-related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.



Have you ever felt like you were healing — and then suddenly you weren't?Today is both D-Day and National Yo-Yo Day.Grie...
06/07/2026

Have you ever felt like you were healing — and then suddenly you weren't?

Today is both D-Day and National Yo-Yo Day.

Grief is the ultimate yo-yo.

One day you feel stronger. The next, a song, a date, a smell pulls you right back into the ache. Many people think that means they're doing grief "wrong."

They aren't.

The soldiers at Normandy didn't advance in a smooth, unbroken line. There were setbacks, fear, uncertainty — and devastating loss. Yet they pressed forward because hope was worth fighting for.

Grief asks the same of us.

The yo-yo doesn't stay at the bottom forever.

And neither do you.

If you or a loved one is having a tough time, my heart goes out to you. I can relate to how heavy, how unsettled you feel at times.
However, please know that
A difficult day does not mean you are weak or wrong
A wave of sorrow does not erase your progress.
A setback does not erase your possibility to feel better again consistently.

D-Day wasn't just about the fight. It was about what they believed was waiting on the other side of it.

So is your journey through grief.

Hope isn't the absence of grief. Hope is continuing to move forward while carrying it.
And even if you don't know how yet, there is help if you keep reaching out; thus, there is hope.



Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet-related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.



06/05/2026

Have you ever survived something and then wondered why your body never got the message that it was over?
If you are still bracing, still scanning, still exhausted even when life looks calm from the outside — that is not weakness. That is a nervous system that learned to protect you and never got the signal that it finally could stop.

PTSD is not about the past. It lives in the present, in your body, in ordinary moments that suddenly feel anything but ordinary. And the grief of that — the lost ease, the constrained life, the years of performing normal — rarely gets named.

If this speaks to you or someone you know, this article shares tools and more information that might help https://open.substack.com/pub/birgittetan/p/ptsd-why-your-body-still-hasnt-gotten-126?r=594w58&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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📞 If you need support now, call or text 988 or text HOME to 741741. Available 24/7.
There is Help; thus, there is Hope.


Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet-related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.

I am happy and grateful that my cat approved my food choices.🤣💖😹What are you grateful for this week?😃And if you’re havin...
06/04/2026

I am happy and grateful that my cat approved my food choices.🤣💖😹
What are you grateful for this week?😃

And if you’re having a hard time right now— If gratitude feels impossible… or worse, like a cliché… or some oxymoron that belongs on a coffee mug and not in real life — My heart goes out to you, and I can only imagine how you feel.💙

Still, studies show that even in grief, one tiny thing we can honestly be grateful for—however small—can help us hold on.Not to bypass the pain… but to breathe through it.❤️‍🩹💞

You're invited to join me in my Joyful Living Daily Gratitude, Affirmation, & Inspiration group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/217483258848074/Bring a friend. We don’t do toxic positivity. Just an honest, healing connection.



**The pesky little thing: Not medical, psychological, legal, or pet related advice. All posts are for educational or entertainment purposes only.**



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