Making Room Before the Holidays Arrive
Every year around this time, I start hearing the same thing from clients and friends alike. The holidays are coming, family is coming, and the house isn’t ready for guests. Maybe there are guest rooms that have become storage closets or we haven’t stayed on top of the “home organization”. Perhaps you know new gifts […]
Moving Into Senior Living: What Nobody Tells You About the First Two Weeks
A Guide for Caregivers and Family Members The boxes (and bins) are unpacked. The furniture is placed. The move is, technically, done. But for the person who just moved, whether or not it was their choice and regardless of how beautiful the community or their apartment are, the “after” might be the hardest part. When […]
The House Was Never Just a House: What Divorce Taught Me About Moving On
What My Grandmother Taught Me About Love and Loss My parents divorced when I was one, so I never knew them as a couple. What I did know was my grandmother’s story. Back in the early 1960s, my grandfather left her for another woman. She was left raising two kids alone, carrying the stigma of […]
The Guy With Candy in His Pockets: Why Joe Is Our Employee of the Decade
The Guy Who Keeps Us Moving At the end of every job, the team is starting to run out of steam. Before Joe, we’d have to do a full day’s job and then work together to take the trash, load the supplies and clean up from the job. For over four years, Joe has driven […]
The Gift of Aging
I can’t stand the term “anti-aging.” I’ve spent more than a decade as a Senior Move Manager, walking beside families through the biggest transition of their lives. I’m also a cancer survivor. When you face a cancer diagnosis and wonder if you’ll see your children grow up, you’ll understand why “anti-aging” stops sounding like a […]
Why a Woman-Owned Business Matters: Jami Shapiro & the Story Behind Silver Linings Transitions
Our founder Jami Shapiro didn’t set out to build a company. She was just trying to figure out how to be a mother and still have something of her own. It started with a “no.” Before Silver Linings Transitions existed, Jami was pregnant with her first child, working a job she genuinely liked. She and […]
Now What? What My Empty Nest Is Teaching Me About Transitions
This week I’m driving my youngest of three to college. When I pull out of that parking lot, I will officially be done with the thing I always knew I wanted. My whole life, I wanted to be a mom. Then I became one. For 25 years I have been in the chaos of running […]
Starting Over: What Nobody Tells You About Moving Through Divorce
I know what it’s like to pack up a house because a marriage ended. Shortly after I founded Silver Linings Transitions, I went through my own divorce. I moved with three kids and rebuilt my life from scratch. So when a client calls me mid-divorce, overwhelmed and not sure where to start, I’m not just […]
The Books We Can’t Let Go Of (And What To Do When It’s Time)
I have a confession that might surprise you coming from someone who’s spent over a decade helping people let go of things: my own bookshelves were a disaster. Not messy. Overrun. Two, sometimes three rows deep, tucked into closets, piling up on my nightstand. I told myself I’d get to them “someday.” When Covid happened […]
Meet Beth Barrett: Team Lead, Senior Organizer, and the Person Who Gets Me Organized
The Person Who Gets Me Organized Every so often you get to write about someone whose story is so woven into your own. It’s hard to know where to start.That’s the case with Beth Barrett, a Silver Linings Transitions Team Lead and one of our Senior Organizers. I started bringing Beth into my own home […]