Contributions by Emily Munoz
![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2024/30-1-healing.jpg)
After loss, our brains struggle to make sense of where we are and where we’re going. We must learn again where we need to go and create a new path.
3/26/2024 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2023/2023dec-video-wellness.jpg)
Watch this webinar video to learn movements, behaviors, and postures to help us reduce the stresses that manifest in our bodies during the holidays.
12/12/2023 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2023/29-1-breakaway.jpg)
TAPS offers 10 creative ways to fight feelings of loneliness, seek out the connections that inspire us, that make us better.
4/14/2023 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2022/2022nov-video-lonliness.jpg)
Video discussion on practical strategies for choosing our own traditions which may mean exploring limiting beliefs about what life "should" look like.
11/16/2022 - Erin Jacobson - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2022/28-3-talk.jpg)
It’s repeated comments like, “I’m fine” and “One day at a time” that wear us down in our daily lives and drain on our emotional reserves when grieving.
10/22/2022 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2017/2017oct-forestbathing.jpg)
Forest bathing is an actual thing, and we’d love for you to try it this fall as a way to connect with your inner self and the world around you.
10/18/2020 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2020/26-2-pain.jpg)
Pain can be a valuable teacher. But as much as we may learn from it, we may also feel compelled to avoid it.
7/22/2020 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2020/2020apr-video-empowered.jpg)
This video recording explores how to ask and answer in ways that are truthful and productive and strengthen feelings of belonging and connection.
4/20/2020 - Erin Jacobson - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2020/2020mar-video-livinglessons.jpg)
This video recording of the TAPS Talks connection discusses stress responses, explore where they hide in our lives, and recognize ways we rely on them.
4/8/2020 - Emily Munoz - Tabitha Bonilla![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2020/2020mar-video-livinglessons.jpg)
This video recording of the TAPS Talks connection explores whether lessons learned from grief can provide us confidence and calm now.
3/21/2020 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2019/25-3-chain2.jpg)
We come together as a family of survivors to honor our fallen, to grieve our dead.This journey does not ever have to be yours alone.
10/14/2019 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2019/2019aug-empower.jpg)
TAPS understands the ripple effects of loss — how grief weaves itself into every part of what we know and who we are.
8/6/2019 - Emily Munoz - Erin Jacobson![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2019/2019jan-books.jpg)
Check out these books that can help you make better choices for your health and wellness journey this new year.
1/16/2019 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2018/24-4-charlie.jpg)
If you’re feeling a little bit like Charlie Brown this season, here are some things that might help you feel a little less alone.
12/9/2018 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2017/23-3-showingup.jpg)
Just as the demands of grief call us to “show up” when we’d rather not, the tasks of life call us in a similar way.
10/16/2017 - Emily Munoz - Nichole Bukowski![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2017/2017sept-bestversion.jpg)
We can be the best versions of the worst-case scenarios — embodying bravery, endurance and an unwillingness to let the death be the story.
9/27/2017 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2017/2017jul-iw1.jpg)
Summer, with its long days of light and warmth, is also a great time to stretch yourself emotionally and physically.
7/20/2017 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2017/23-1-battlefield.jpg)
When his Iraqi interpreter’s move to the U.S. finally started to become a reality, Ed decided he would be the trusted voice in a strange land.
5/21/2017 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2017/2017feb-munoz-cry.jpg)
We can't always let ourselves grieve openly and tearfully, but when we can, it's worth it — it's important to cry to the end of your tears.
2/21/2017 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2016/22-4-dogtree.jpg)
As we grieve, the need for continuity drives us to look beyond the physical body, to embrace love that doesn't stop when life does
11/21/2016 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2016/22-4-openheart.jpg)
Nine unique ways to change your perspective from one of grief and loss to one of hope and engagement.
11/21/2016 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2016/22-3-combine.jpg)
And so TAPS was born, from a visceral understanding that feeling trapped, alone and emotionally confined is not the end of the journey.
10/1/2016 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2016/22-2-stronger.jpg)
When you are ready to become newly proud of who you are and how you are living, then it’s time to connect with your Inner Warrior.
8/1/2016 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2016/22-2-safezones.jpg)
And so TAPS was born, from a visceral understanding that feeling trapped, alone and emotionally confined is not the end of the journey.
8/1/2016 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2016/22-1-personalprice.jpg)
As surviving families, we know we are part of this larger American legacy of grief and loss. How does Memorial Day change for us when the holiday becomes personal?
4/1/2016 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2015/21-4-innerwarrior.jpg)
TAPS knows that strength for the journey is an important way we can help and inspire each other and launches a new TAPS Health & Wellness Initiative.
12/21/2015 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2015/21-4-munoz.jpg)
As we approach the holidays, we brace ourselves with gratitude and learn to be thankful for the gaps and spaces because of who once filled them.
12/21/2015 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2015/21-3-metaphors.jpg)
Traveling the country to host Seminars, the TAPS team hears about the sense of freedom that comes from connecting with other people who understand.
9/21/2015 - Emily Munoz![img-description](/globalassets/our-stories/2014/20-4-letters.jpg)
Our hope is that you will find a true understanding of how much your TAPS family cares about you and is here for you.
12/21/2014 - Emily Munoz