About

These about pages are always a bit of a challenge. How does one sum oneself and ones group up in a couple of paragraphs? I can tell you that Bolts of Love sprung to life with a conversation between me, Karen Mcgrath and Erin Stolz in 2013. They were each my rock in the first years after my husband passed. They never wavered in their commitment to our friendship, my healing or my passion for sharing what I have learned and am learning. 

In the pivotal conversation I was questioning why people in ‘spiritual groups’ get in the way of each other. Why it seemed that there was much more competition than cooperation and collaboration. Karen shared a story about how she often struggled with the same thing and had decided one day to send gratitude and love to the people she was most unsure about, or the people she was feeling upset or angry with. Over time she saw an improvement in the way she interacted with them and how they were affecting her. She said she was just throwing light and love their way as much as she was able. We started joking that people should get lightning strikes of love, like Zues in the cloud throwing lightning bolts, but instead destruction, a blast of love. We thought it would be lovely to invite people to share that love, and their own stories and their own way of looking at the world so that we could learn from each other. 

We did just that. We started inviting people. We have had several brick and mortar homes to meet in over the years but the dream has stayed the same: A place where people may be their most human selves and their most divine selves. A place to get to know yourself and be supported in doing so. 

Erin died a couple of years ago. Her death put more of a damp cloth on my enthusiasm than I was able to admit. I have taken great pains to learn and be certified in grief studies, how it affects us emotionally, physically and spiritually. As much as one knows about a topic, when it strikes home, you still have to move with the humanity of it all. I have felt a gentle kick in the backside lately to not forget what we started. 

Thank you for being here, being with us, and sharing Bolts of Love.