The Healing Power Of Acceptance

— "I know I cannot change the past. I know I will never lose my sadness over the death of my husband and the death of my brother. I will also never lose the guilt I have over how I parented the girls in the absence of their dad, but I have acceptance. It's what I'm doing about it now that matters today." — Says Rosemary. Valeria Teles interviews Rosemary Keevil — the author of "The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction." Rosemary Keevil is an author and a journalist who has worked for Canada's CTV Network, CHUM Radio Network, the national Globe and Mail newspaper, Scarlett magazine and TheThunderbird.ca. She has been a TV news reporter, a current affairs radio show host and the managing editor of a professional women's magazine. Patrick Kennedy, Naomi Wolfe, Pierre Salinger, Matt Dillon, and Amy Grant are among the thousands of people Rosemary has interviewed during her career. Tragedy hit Rosemary in 1991 when her husband died of cancer and her brother died of AIDS and she became a single parent of her two very young girls. While still high functioning Rosemary fell into the grips of alcohol and drugs. She went into recovery in 2002 and has been clean and sober ever since. She has developed a sophisticated knowledge of alcoholism, addiction, mental health issues, and the associated treatments and therapies. Addiction was her academic specialty when taking her Master of Journalism. She received her master's degree from the University of British Columbia School of Journalism in Vancouver and has a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She lives in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, with her partner and her sheep-a-doodle and is a proud mother of two adult daughters who are both content in their chosen careers. To learn more about Rosemary Keevil and her work, please visit: rosemarykeevil.com     — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.