It seems as if we've all been experiencing an enormous amount of loss the past few years. For some that loss looks like a divorce, job, home, friendship, self-worth or death. I am definitely no exception. I guess that's one thing we all have in common… we all experiencing loss. And with loss comes pain. Pain does not discriminate by what causes it. Pain just feels pain. No matter what we are all going through, we all feel the pain and we're all just trying to get through it.

There are moments in life when an experience gives us insight we could never have reached simply by thinking about it. As a psychologist, I understand this intellectually. As a human being, I am learning it in my body. My recent Camino journey gave me one of those moments.

A week ago, I was at the window seat somewhere over the country, flying home to Arizona, and I realized I almost left more than my dad behind in Chicago. I almost left myself.