Alexandra Kennedy, MA, LMFT , is a psychotherapist in private practice thirty-nine years and author of Losing a Parent ; The Infinite Thread: Healing Relationships Beyond Loss ; and How Did I Miss All This Before? Waking Up to the Magic of Our Ordinary Lives . She is an adjunct faculty member of John F. Kennedy University and has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She has been interviewed in USA Today , the San Jose Mercury News , the San Francisco Examiner , and the Boston Herald, as well as on NPR's Talk of the Nation , CNN's Sonja Live , and on KQED's Family Talk and New Dimensions Radio .