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Honoring a Deceased Child on Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 7, 2011 - by Sandy Fox

Valentine’s Day is a day for love, and a day to celebrate with those you love. It’s also another holiday to remember your child, who can no longer celebrate with you. It is a difficult day for all of us who grieve the loss of our child or children. So I say, embrace Valentine’s Day as a special day to commemorate your child and celebrate your love for him or her. Death may end our child’s life, but it does not end the relationship we had and still have. Bonds of love are never severed by death, nor is the love we shared with […]

g in training

Posted on February 6, 2011 - by admin

my boyfriend and i lived together for a year but we went on a break a week before he passed and he moved home. he and i were unseparable. from the day i met him we talked or saw eachother everyday. the last week he n i werent together everyday last time we talked was 4 in the morning, i was mad he hadnt seen me, he kept saying he was so tired and hed come over in the morning.I made him promise because i missed him, he worked the grave yard shift at a grocery store. 8 the next […]

Can We Use Loss to Become Something More?

Posted on February 4, 2011 - by Tabitha Jayne

In one moment, all that we hold dear and cherish is shattered, never to be the same. We are left floundering in a pit of uncertainty. We drown as wave after wave of unknown and unexpected emotions wash over us. In that moment, we cannot see the path forward; there is no light shining for us that guides us through this. We have to rely on ourselves and we are unequipped. Questions of an immense nature begin to form in our minds, and we are at a loss at how to answer them. We question the very essence of who […]

just the two of us. me and mum

Posted on February 3, 2011 - by admin

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Grief Leads to Deeper Understanding of God

Posted on February 3, 2011 - by Barb Roberts

Every day, we and those around us experience loss, change, and transitions that we must grieve. Grief is intense emotional suffering caused by loss, and while it is normal, it involves hard work. Does that surprise you – that grief not only equals loss, but it involves hard grief work as well? Grief often begins with shock, whether it involves loss of life, loss of relationship, loss of livelihood, loss of the person’s living situation, or loss of health. There may be emotional or physical symptoms as well. Some people openly express their grief; others show no emotion. Perhaps you […]

Silence of Grief is Epidemic

Posted on February 2, 2011 - by Monique Antoinette

Approximately 33,300 people take their own lives every year, leaving behind loved ones desperate to understand why this happened. I, too, was left with endless questions after the suicide of my 18-year-old son. My previous exposure to grief-related material left me offended and unsettled. Much of what I consumed expressed a very watered down explanation of what I was actually experiencing. I wasn’t sure if I was being lied to, tricked or was hypersensitive and over-reactive. Either way, I was absolutely unprepared for the many faces of grief. How could something as epidemic as grief be treated as not a […]

Socializing Again After the Loss of a Spouse

Posted on February 2, 2011 - by Susan Reynolds

Within a few months of my husband’s death, I was sitting in counseling, reviewing my life, rethinking my future, and rebelling about the future prospects. My counselor suggested that my social circle would no longer be “corporate” entertaining nor logistics with teenage daughters and their networking. What then? She commented that my circle would be women. I cried, I cursed, I cringed. Hadn’t the rug already been pulled out from under me and now another one shoved underneath without the welcome mat? I was willing to try. A friend of mine was turning 50 years old. She, […]

IN MEMORY OF MY SON

Posted on February 1, 2011 - by admin

IN MEMORY OF MY SON By Kelly Crawley On Jan.30, 2007, around 7:00pm, my family and I were driving home from my mother- in -law’s house. We were on a back road out in the country about a mile and a half from our home. I was looking around for deer. Then, all of the sudden, I heard my husband say, “Hang on!”, so I put my arms around my son and hung on tight. He was sitting by the door. My husband lost control of our truck and it started to go on its side. Then it started to […]

Valentine’s Day for a Daddy’s Girl

Posted on February 1, 2011 - by Alicia King

I admit it. I was always a daddy’s girl. Don’t get me wrong. I was very close to my mom, too. I was lucky. I had two loving, involved parents. Still, my dad and I were tight. When my parents split, I couldn’t bear to see him alone, so I left our cushy family home and slept on the lumpy couch of his rental house. I sought his approval and was always thrilled to see him in the audience of a school play or the sidelines of a little league game. My dad always bought sentimental Valentine’s Day cards […]

Couple Grieves Lost Child at Different Pace

Posted on January 31, 2011 - by Lisa Buell

I could feel the pressure, my skin becoming tight, my breath shallow and cold, the room too full of her memory. And I would go, from corner to corner, wall to wall, choosing, oh so carefully, the pictures to be put away. I nestled them in drawers between spare candle holders, foreign coins, old crayons and the like, possibly useful objects that will someday be stored in the attic. I would never send them straight to “storage” without having them rest in the holding place first, the place that gives me the illusion of possibility, and with that, accessibility. She […]