I have to admit that for a long time, a very, very, long time, I have been that woman. That woman who felt weak and disempowered by well, life. I allowed the waves to crash upon me with full force and I surrendered to the tide that would pull me so easily under. My spirit…
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Turning the Page…
Continue...They say life is written in Chapters. I can’t count the chapters of my life, but I know the chapter that most certainly changed the entire story. It begins with a birth and a death. All in the same day. In many ways, it became a new book, as I am no longer the person…
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Standing STILL.
Continue...Standing STILL. We always say we are “Still Standing,” and we are, but are we standing still? Sometimes I feel as if I am. I rummage through my mind on ways to preserve her life, on ways to make sure people know, on ways to may sure no one will ever forget. I search and…
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Purpose
Continue...It’s a big and powerful and scary word. When you’ve lost your baby, your child, and you are floundering aimlessly around in unchartered waters, seas and storms of grief…the first question is often WHY? Why me? Why us? Why MY baby? Why MY child? Why am I the one with the broken womb and the…
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Delivering Hope Through Medical Negligence
Continue...Delivering Hope through Medical Negligence… You know, I really don’t want to go there…but I will. I will if it will help even one other woman, child, family. It brings forth unspeakable emotions even before I can see the words in black and white on my screen. It brings forth a pain hidden, now once…
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Carry On
Continue...Something someone once posted on my blog sticks out in my mind. It was along the lines of “I don’t know how you can even smile with all that you’ve been through.” Yet alone, LIVE, right? Life has dealt me some pretty bad hands. I lost someone dear to me through the disease of mental…
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Due…and a Giveaway
Continue...Due. She was due on the 18th of February; set to come rushing into our world on the tails of cold winds and winter snows. Yet, I was barren. That was four years ago. I still think about her every day. I can still picture that scene, her face, that moment frozen in time as…