Up Hill Solutions

04/04/2026

"Letting go is not loss; it is space for what is true." Insight Timer quote for today by
Jack Kornfield
🧡 Kathleen

04/04/2026

Just had a conversation with a friend about this last night. . . 🧡 Kathleen

04/02/2026

Nice reminder to love and accept ourselves. 🩷 Kathleen

03/30/2026

Thought provoking video. I love her practical way of explaining things. ❤️ Kathleen

FJORDCAST is a spoken series exploring the inner mechanics of human behaviour from the North.⚫In this episode of Fjordcast, we speak honestly about how moder...

03/23/2026

"In trying to please all, he had pleased none." Quote on Insight Timer today by Aesop
💛 Kathleen

03/08/2026

Looking back over my life, I can see this has been true. May you feel peace and joy as you go through your life with its ups and downs. 💙 Kathleen

Not every ending
is meant to hurt you.

Sometimes an ending
is simply life
protecting your peace.

In the moment,
when something ends,
it rarely feels that way.

It feels like loss.

It feels like confusion,
silence,
and questions
that never seem
to have clear answers.

You look back
at the memories.

The conversations.

The moments
that once felt certain.

And you wonder
how something
that once felt so real
could suddenly
become a closed chapter.

But not every ending
means something failed.

Some endings arrive
because their purpose
in your life
has already been fulfilled.

What leaves your life
is not always
something you lost.

Sometimes it is something
life gently removed
before it could
take away your peace.

At first,
all you see
is the empty space.

But time has a quiet way
of revealing the truth.

Distance brings clarity.

Silence brings understanding.

And healing slowly shows you
that what ended
was never meant
to stay forever.

Because the space
left behind
was not meant
to remain empty.

It was meant
to make room.

Room for peace.

Room for growth.

Room for the people
and experiences
that truly belong
in the life
you are building.

Not every ending
is a loss.

Sometimes
it is life quietly
protecting you
from a path
that was never meant
to be yours. 🌅🤍

03/02/2026

From my Yogi tea bag this evening:
"May your head and heart speak with one voice."

02/10/2026

Very potent message. I see this applying to all situations in which we shared love and then for various reasons moved apart from others. Not just via physical death, but by parting - in various ways. We always carry the love we shared with others in our hearts. ❤️❤️❤️ Kathleen

There’s a quiet truth we rarely talk about —
healing doesn’t mean erasing what hurt 🌾

We don’t wake up one day untouched.
We don’t return to who we were before.
We carry what we lost with us,
not as a weight,
but as a presence.

Grief doesn’t ask to be rushed.
It doesn’t respond to timelines or expectations.
It settles in slowly,
teaching us how to walk with it,
step by step 🚶‍♂️🤍

Some days it’s loud.
Other days it’s barely a whisper.
But it’s always there,
woven into the way we see the world now.

Moving forward isn’t betrayal.
Remembering isn’t weakness.
It’s proof that love mattered —
that something meaningful once existed 🌼

Loss changes us,
but so does love.
They shape us in similar ways:
softening certain edges,
deepening others,
teaching us empathy we didn’t know we needed.

There is no “normal” to return to.
Only a new version of life
that includes what came before
and what remains now 🌿

We learn how to smile again,
even while missing someone.
We learn how to keep going,
even when part of us is still looking back.

And somehow,
both things can be true at the same time.

Walking forward doesn’t mean leaving anyone behind.
It means allowing their impact
to live on inside us —
in the way we love,
in the way we listen,
in the way we hold space for others 🤍

This path may look different than we imagined.
Quieter.
Slower.
More reflective.

But it’s still a path.
And you’re still moving.

Not away from what mattered —
but with it,
carried gently,
every step of the way ✨

02/09/2026

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Quote on Insight Timer by Guillaume Apollinaire ❤️

02/07/2026

Doors also open when we stop trying to "make things happen" like we planned. Another example of: "Let Go. Trust. Allow. And most of all LOVE."
Words that came to me in meditation a few decades ago. 💙 Kathleen

02/06/2026

From my Traditional Medicinals Organic Ginger Aid tea this AM. 💛 Kathleen

02/01/2026

True! 💙 Kathleen

“Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness." —Eckhart Tolle