“Love is the song over the wrong.”
(Vanessa Dawn Soliz)
In the second installment of the short term “resilience” series, I interview mother, love warrior, and all-around incredible human, Cindi Soliz.
Cindi is the mother of five kids, one of whom was my childhood friend Vanessa Dawn Soliz, an insightful and beautiful person who died at the age of twenty in a motorcycle accident.
Losing a child is arguably one of the most difficult things one could experience, but Cindi’s story is not just one of pain, loss, and unending grief - it’s also a story of transformation, beauty, and the deep love of life that’s only possible when life’s preciousness is accepted alongside the risk.
Tune into our conversation to hear us discuss things like:
- How do you “let go” of what you can’t control about life? (Which is most of it?)
- What do you do with grief that is too big to carry?
- How can we go through deeply painful things and come out the other side more loving, alive, and fully human?
I am so grateful to have spent this hour with a woman I’m lucky enough to love and learn from in real life. May her story remind us all that the human spirit is capable of incredible resilience, transformation, and overcoming.
And may Vanessa’s freebird spirit remind us that no life, however short, is insignificant: that however difficult our circumstances may sometimes be, to remember that “love is the song over the wrong.”
This episode is dedicated to Vanessa Butterfly Dawn Soliz (December 15th 1985-June 25th 2006)
“If I could fly today,
I would die anyway,
If I could fly today,
I could find the words to say,
If I could fly today,
I would fly far away,
If I could fly today.”
(Vanessa Dawn Soliz)
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The usual podcast theme (where people explore how they answered the question of “what should I do with my life?”) will be back soon. But as we navigate this difficult time of the Corona virus pandemic, join Cindi Soliz and I as we explore just how much the human spirit has gotten through before.
Keep going, my loves.
-Melissa
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