Hello Beautiful Friend!

Welcome to your Sunday LoveGram. 

Thank you to everyone who shared such sweet thoughts and sent good energy last week when I told you about the hard time my family was going through as our sweet little kitty, Zoey, was dying. 

In today’s audio I share some more thoughts on love and grief. 

Some people say that grief is “love with no place to go,” but that isn’t my experience. I think grief is simply a different expression of love and that we can let that grief-love run through us like a rushing river. It can still go to the same outlet!  

Even though my sweet butterscotch tabby is no longer physically here, I love her every bit as much and I also can conjure up her spirit and feel her presence. I can still funnel all that love in her direction. 

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If you missed last week’s audio LoveGram and want to listen, I just linked it for you here. In it, I give a few small practices for loving ourselves through hard stuff. 

This week we are looking at how celebration plays a role in grief. I  believe that they are two sides of the same coin. 

In today’s audio,  I share with you a simple little reminder that I learned from writer/performer Ann Randolph. I remember a solo show Ann wrote all about the “yays” and “boos” of life. We often love the joy of the “yay” times (the “happy” times) and we often try to run from or push down the “boo” times (“sad” or “hard” times). 

However, when we allow all the yays and all the boos, when we don’t push the hard stuff away, it can give us that “third note” experience. Something even deeper and different is created. 

I’ve been experiencing that this week with the death of little Zoey. 

Of course it is so incredibly sad that she died. (BOO!)

And yet, I can still bask in the memory of her sweet nature and how much joy she brought to our lives. (YAY!)

I also feel happy that Zoey died peacefully and seemingly didn’t experience any pain. (Yay!)

I feel sad for her lifetime companion, Poptart, who is now living in a house without her feline friend. (BOO)

However, we can commit to heaping more love on Poptart and playing with her favorite pickle catnip toy. And we can remember that animals are expert teachers at being present in the moment. It is likely Poptart doesn’t experience guilt or regret over things undone or unsaid with her friend, Zoey. (YAY!)

Also, my family feels really happy that Zoey had a good, loving home with us for practically her whole life, ever since my son picked her out at the local humane society when he was a little kid. (Yay!)

Life is naturally filled with Yays and Boos. The question is, can we love and be compassionate with ourselves, others, and our lives, through all of ’em? 

(To listen to today’s audio LoveGram, just scroll down on this page and click play on the audio player below!)

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Thanks for being here with me. I appreciate you and am grateful for your kind and compassionate heart. 

I’m here with you, through all the ups and downs and all the yays and boos.  

We are all just walking each other home, as Ram Dass beautifully said. 

(Today you literally walked me home in the rain as I was recording!)

xo Sherry

💖 P.S. Here’s a link to a recent conversation I had with Shawn Buttner about allowing ourselves to be with the hard stuff. 

💖 P.P.S. Here’s that link again for four downloadable audio booksfrom my spiritual teacher, Cheri Huber. These audios are wonderful to listen to when I am having a hard time. Maybe they will support you, too. 

💖 P.P.P.S. If you are going through grief over a death or other loss, please make sure you reach out to someone you love and trust. You don’t have to hold it all alone.

Here’s today’s LoveGram: See purple box below!

Download and listen on the go here: LoveGram 7-27-25