Karla Noland

Karla J. Noland is a wife, working mom, author, certified Personal Development & Executive coach, and speaker who loves sharing what she has learned. Her mission is to help working mothers prioritize themselves and their dreams at the top of their to-do lists, and create a winning strategy to achieve their goals. Reach her through her website, http://revealhealthrive.com

Articles:

Don’t Rush Grief

Grief didn’t strike me the moment my mother died. Instead, my grief began when I realized my mother was dying, which was on her 78th birthday. Shock, disbelief, and sadness weighed on me from that moment on because I knew the inevitable would happen. When my mother passed away, I acknowledged that she was no longer in pain and had gone to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, but I did not give myself space to grieve. I distracted myself from the pain by going back to work in an attempt to return to some semblance of normalcy. […]

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As My Mother Lay Dying

Not Much Time Left A week before Thanksgiving, my aunt called me and said my mother didn’t have much time left, and the nurse on call at the hospice facility said I should come right away. I booked a flight to Houston the next day for my husband, our youngest son, and myself. We stayed at my mother’s house as we traveled back and forth to the hospice facility to sit at her bedside. By this time, cancer had ravaged my mother’s body. She no longer had any body fat and was down to skin and bones. The doctor placed her […]

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