The Light Within - Ali’s Healing Story

I shared this highlighted blog picture on social media 6 years ago today, March 3, 2020. Completely unaware that only days later I would experience the devastating loss of Nolan on March 14th, and then in 2023 stand face to face with a cancer diagnosis.  When I shared it, it was just a quote that resonated.  It felt encouraging. Hopeful. Inspiring. I didn’t realize it was prophetic. Just days after sharing it, our family was shattered by the unexpected loss of Nolan. Grief came like a tidal wave — disorienting, suffocating, relentless. Watching my sister walk through the unimaginable. Watching my parents carry a pain no parent should ever have to bear. Loving on my sweet niece Sophie as she tried to understand a world without her brother. All of it unfolding in the middle of COVID — isolation, uncertainty, distance compounding the sorrow. And in the midst of it, I was navigating being away from Keith in Nevada, where he was holding down our home and small business, carryi...