Hello and welcome to Hot Flash Diaries™.

I am a writer, and I appreciate how hard it is for many of us to express ourselves creatively. However, it is essential to your soul that you not only express yourself, but also have some kind of creative endeavor in which to do so. There is something incredibly powerful about transforming your inner turmoil or joy into something outside of yourself. Your experience can then have shape, form, sensuality and texture. It is a beautiful thing to be able to transform an inner experience, and release it into the world where others can benefit from your brilliance.

My mission is to continue to share my story, and to help and support individuals (both young and older) to recognize and move upon those moments in their lives - those hot flash moments - that provide opportunities for transformation.

I started Hot Flash Diaries™ as a way to re-imagine and re-claim the term hot flash as something more powerful than just an hormonal heat surge. A hot flash moment or experience can alert you that your life is about to change, and that transformations can still occur if you are ready and able to embrace a new beginning–in whatever form it may take.

This site came into being as I underwent a period of remarkable, painful (and at times joyous) life-altering transformation as I emerged from the emotional wreckage of divorce and full-time single parenthood, and crawled my way onto the solid ground from which I now stand. I write a lot about my journey, my deep grief over my family's loss, and how I have not only transformed my life, but also my very being.

So, while it is true that I have personal experience with hot flashes as we typically think of them, I have had many more moments that have flashed hot across my psyche. I have re-imagined the term hot flash to relate to those moments in time where epiphanies happen and the direction of your life begins to change.

This turn in life need not be a turn at all, but a shift, a move. Changing thought patterns, waves of light crisscrossing in rhythmic grids of knowing. No need to dance away. Embrace the change. Hang on the edge, throw a leg over and be ready for a ride. It may be hot as hell.

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I am working on my doctoral dissertation entitled Transformation through Grief and Loss:  Stories, Essays and Poetry Entangling with the Mysteries of Alchemy. I have included (and will continue to include) in some of my blog posts sections that I feel are relevant to the theme of this site, and that might provide some insights or relief for those who are experiencing grief and loss.

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