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Christina Rasmussen is an author, artist, speaker, creator of The Life Reentry Process. More info here: www.christinarasmussen.com

We help people manifest their dreams — despite devastating loss. We guide those in crisis through a unique five-step action-oriented process grounded in cutting-edge brain science to help them see how they can recover, take action, and shift to a new reality of possibilities.

07/13/2026

I miss you when I don’t write to you for a few days.

It’s like when I haven’t seen a good friend.

The things I want to tell you stack up.

They want to be told.

They want to reach your mind and heart and be shared in your beingness.

I think we are connected. We have always been.

When I say this, I think about the new people who stumble on this page wondering why this woman is speaking this way.

In all these years we have been together in this virtual world, we have always talked this way.

I don’t know what all this means. Where we are heading together. What the purpose is of us being together now, but we are still here.

Being together the way we started this journey in 2010. Just with this page, just with the words.

I think in the end that’s all that matters. The exchange. How we make others feel in the simplest ways.

When we die and we have our review of our lives, that’s what people say.

It was the simple things that mattered. It’s about helping someone in the midst of a hard day.

Not with anything big, but with a kind word.

With just seeing someone when they feel the whole world is blind towards them.

Anyways. I hope your Monday is a good one. I hope you find your way with everything you are doing. I hope you are loved. I hope so much for you.

With love 💕
Christina

07/06/2026

Grief is such a devastating experience, one that will shatter the perspective of your world.

It will dismember your physical wholeness.

It will tear you down in front of everyone but in such invisible ways.

But above all, it will alter your inner world completely.

So much so that it will take you from the grounds of your life and put you up on the roof of your house.

That’s where you get to live from that point forward.
You grew. You changed.

Your grief made you unlike yourself in ways that you couldn’t have foreseen.

When we meet each other, those of us who have been through it, we recognize our places on the roofs.

We nod. We understand.

We are a different kind of species.

And why we must change our lives to match that.

Not just in the first few years but in all the years we have left.

For me it will be 20 years in just a few days (July 21st) and let me tell you, no matter how long it has been, grief’s signature is still visible on my skin and it dictates change.

Lots of it.

What can you see from your roof?

Stay profound.
Christina

07/05/2026

I found this online the other day. It doesn’t have a name but I thought it had a lot of truth in it. I hope your day starts out with an authentic voice and truth from your heart.
Much love
Christina

07/04/2026

Keep dreaming
and believing in extraordinary things.

07/02/2026

In the last couple of years I have had a lot of aha moments and revelations.

I think we are all raised to believe in goals and huge signposts.

We just keep traveling thinking we are going somewhere.

But we never seem to finally make it there.

I bet we are in the middle of infinity.

Destinations do exist.

Just not the way we thought they did.

I try my best to spend my days inside things that I really enjoy doing.

In this way, I arrive somewhere every day.

A finished painting. A gallery showing. Dinner with my girls. A new coffee shop.

Always arriving somewhere every single day.

I hope you arrive somewhere today.

Here’s to your string of arrivals traveling alongside you wherever you are.

Thursdays are perfect middle destinations

Christina

06/26/2026

The battle with ourselves in regard to living our lives however we want, is much bigger than the battle with the outside world.

We have been hypnotized. Brainwashed. Shamed.

To even dare consider living outside this matrix. And when we dare to imagine a completely different life the program inside is hunting us down.

The thing is, we can’t tell the difference between what we want and what we are programmed to want.

And it sucks. I have spent my writing career examining the program, the inner dialogue.
I learned a lot.

Together we discovered so many hidden layers of ourselves. And yet the layers are deeper than I thought.

The excavation journey longer.

But the deeper we go the further back we can look and see the invisible structures of the reality that was given to us.

You may be thinking what in the world is Christina talking about.

And if we were together in a room you would see my hands all over the place trying to explain this.

But the simplest most direct way I can say it is:
question everything.

Even your dreams. Your wishes. Start from ground zero today.

Look at your routine and question something you have been doing for a while.

Anyways, I will get off my soap box. And wish you a day of discovery, a day of becoming and a day of truth for yourself.

With love ❤️
Christina

06/19/2026

I think we are in a relationship with our environment. A real relationship.

There is an exchange that takes place between us and the view, the trees, the birds, the home, the plants. Whatever it is we are surrounded by.

As I am sitting here drinking my coffee looking at the view, I notice the air moving.

The clouds hovering. The trees standing. I am surrounded by another entity.

A presence.

An awareness that just sits there waiting for me to move, to feel.

To experience my day.

Our most precious companion.

Who surrounds you every day. Tell me.

With love,
Christina

06/11/2026

Lately, I have been making my bed every morning.

I have never been a bed making person. It’s not in my DNA. :)

But something changed lately, and one morning last week I started making the bed. Perfectly.

I really liked looking at it. So then I kept making it.

There is a white knitted blanket I lay on top of the bedding, one my Greek grandmother made many decades ago. It feels like a blessing. An intention for the day. A calming.

Is there something you do every morning that has become a daily practice for you?

06/09/2026

Gosh, safety after loss is never talked about. You are not just grieving you stop feeling safe. It takes years to come back to safety and for some of us we never return to that feeling.

But, every day we can take steps towards feeling safe by choosing the right relationships, careers, experiences, homes and slowly but surely… our thoughts.

It’s a marathon. But we can indeed get to the safe harbor.

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