If you’re experiencing grief during this season, here are a few tips on overcoming triggers and the summertime blues.
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Parenting After Loss: He Knows
Continue...As the years pass, and I spend them parenting after loss, I’m amazed at how our son, Keegan, responds to having a brother whom he has never seen. Keegan is 4 years old. And he knows. He knows that he has a big brother. While pregnant I was concerned about parenting after loss. I wasn’t…
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Marriage After Loss: My Man Is From Mars
Continue...Back in the 90’s John Gray, Ph.D. released a book titled Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus. The book became somewhat of a staple in pop culture and is lauded as an essential tool for couples who want to develop more satisfying relationships with their partners. This idea that men and women are…
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Marriage After Loss: Will Death Do Us Part
Continue...I thought we were okay. I really thought we were okay. Until that late night when we sat cradled on the floor crying into each other’s arms. The cloud of death was hovering over our lives and we were not okay. It was the first time that we had cried, together. We finally admitted that…
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The Weight of Carrying a Baby – The One That I Lost
Continue...I never understood the weight of carrying a baby, until I had to carry the baby that I lost. Standing at my son’s graveside one afternoon, I remember crying out, “Colby! Baby, please help mommy.” It was a moment of desperation. I needed some relief, but I had run out of solutions. And all that…
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Truth Is, I’ll Never Be the Same
Continue...One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was let go of who I used to be. When my son died, I kept waiting to return to the old me. I was six months pregnant when I gave birth to him. The three or four more months following, my body seemed to progress…
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Life after Loss – Happy Birthday Mommy
Continue...The After Birth… Eleven years. I can’t believe it’s been eleven years. Eleven years! As I opened my eyes on this early summer morning, I whispered, “Happy birthday my sweet baby.” And as I stared out the bedroom window, peeking through the trees was my morning greeting, SUNSHINE! It was the sunshine. MY sonshine. Within…