October is International SIDS, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month (and also Breast Cancer Awareness Month). This article will shine a light on the history and meaning for our community, and provide a resource of events and projects you can take part, if you wish, to make this month meaningful for you. It will also offer a…
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Death Anniversary : The Body Remembers
Continue...Today is the seventh death anniversary of my daughter. As I’m typing it, I feel the strangeness of this sentence. I stop mid-sentence and find myself somewhat confused. How do I deal with something that I wish wouldn’t be real, year after year? Death Anniversary: The body remembers The week leading up to today was…
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The Evolution Of Grief: Grieving In The Seventh Year
Continue...What is it like in the seventh year of grief? Is the grieving still there all the time? Is it gone, mostly gone or never gone completely? My daughter A’Mya died on September 3rd 2011, just 3 days old. In the first few months, I couldn’t see further than feeding her twin sister and getting…
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Why We Need To Talk About Child Loss
Continue...Why do we need to talk about child loss, when it is so hard… When are we met with silence? When people just don’t get it, unless they have experienced it themselves? When all we need is to be understood and taken care of because grieving sucks all our energy? It seems pointless but it’s…
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Healing After Child Loss? Possible Or Impossible?
Continue...After the death of my daughter six and a half years ago I wrote: “I will never get over this.” This still holds true to some extent. However, I’m no longer in the despair that led me to make over-generalized statements about healing and sentences that implied I had the power of premonition. Healing –…
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Sharing Your Story: You Change The World
Continue...Yes, you. You change the world. Being who you are. Sharing what you feel. Being honest about your experience. Forging a way Just the other day I shared an image of myself from 15 years ago. This was way before my date with grief and loss at its core. I had my share of…
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New Year New Grief
Continue...Setting intentions for the New Year ’s intentions are all around at this time of the year. For many of us, bereaved parents, the holidays and New Year’s celebration with its ‘merry’ and ‘happy’ wishes can lead us to slide down and get lost in another grief rabbit-hole. We are left with the sentiment that…