Alexandra Kennedy
A girl after our own heart Alexandra Kennedy is. She is a Bay Area psychotherapist and writer who spends her days helping others through hard-to-navigate emotional difficulties. In particular, her own journey through the illness and death of her father led to her developing a practice that deals in depth with grief and how to move through that period of life. In the year following her father’s death she wrote Losing a Parent, a work that shares not only her fathers dying and her own grief but offers strategies that helped her get through this sorrow while raising a family. The Infinite Thread emphasizes healing relationships beyond loss and the issue of grief handed down through generations. How Did I Miss All This Before is described in one review as " a love letter to Alexandra's spiritual evolution as well as to everyone who supported her throughout the twists, turns, surprises and disappointments along the way. "
Alexandra encourages something in particular that we, The Love Letter Squad, have been encouraging for some time, and that is writing love letters to the people in our lives who are now deceased. Hooray Alexandra! We have found with the guests on our radio talk show Love Letters Live that some of the most powerful letters are to people who are gone. Rabbi Leo Trepp, a San Francisco Rabbi in his late nineties, wrote a letter to his own father. Myrna wrote to bring her mother up to date on the family and let her know she is now a great grandmother with a great-granddaughter who looks like her. Doris wrote to her mother to say that a kidney transplant saved her life and that her mother need not worry about her.
We are not surprised that Alexandra finds it helpful in her therapy to have people write love letters. We learn so much about those we love and ourselves as we work our way through the process of writing thoughtful love letters. What we sometimes cannot express in person we can do in writing.
From me to you with love in the air,
Janet
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