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    Bereavement, Death of a Child, Open to Hope

    About Your Room: Letting Go of a Son’s Belongings

    Thursday, February 16, 2023

    Dismantling the Room Your blue camo backpack hung on the back of your desk chair with your Pittsburgh Penguins baseball cap on top of it for eight years. It was […]

    Tags belongings, child loss, death of a child, Memories

    Category Bereavement, Death of a Child, Open to Hope

    Bereavement, Death of a Child

    A Son’s Belongings Bring Longings

    Friday, March 19, 2021

    Since my son Daniel died on February 28, 2014, the month of February has been rife with memories, his ghost popping up seemingly at whim.  His presence and absence coalesce, […]

    Tags death of a child

    Category Bereavement, Death of a Child

    Bereavement, Death of a Child

    Eight New Year’s Eves Ago

    Saturday, January 16, 2021

    There is a collective sigh of relief as we ring in 2021, and yet there is also mounting loss and unattended grief. For those of us who have been learning […]

    Tags bereavement, death of a child, getting to the other side of grief, holidays

    Category Bereavement, Death of a Child

    Death of a Child

    What’s the Difference When Grieving For a Child?

    Monday, April 6, 2020

    The loss of any loved one is a terrible blow that hurts our hearts and leaves us inconsolable. However, when a parent loses a child, it’s a different type of […]

    Tags death of a child, death of an infant, grieving the loss of a child

    Category Death of a Child

    Death of a Child

    A Funeral, a Wedding, Graduations and One Unwanted Guest

    Saturday, June 22, 2019

    It has been six and a half years since our son, Mack, died suddenly on New Year’s Eve 2012, just shy of his ninth birthday. As the many of us […]

    Tags death of a child, getting to the other side of grief

    Category Death of a Child

    Open to Hope

    The Wound Time Won’t Heal

    Sunday, February 10, 2019

    Time heals all wounds. We’ve all heard it. Sounds incredibly hopeful for someone who’s drowning in grief. Except when time doesn’t heal your wound.  Not enough time. It’s been years […]

    Tags coping with grief, death of a child, grief, time heals all wounds

    Category Open to Hope

    Death of a Child

    Adrift in A Sea of Grief

    Monday, November 5, 2018

    I am adrift in an endless sea of grief. As I float along, the world continues to go on around me as if I am walking among the bustling crowds—but […]

    Tags coping with grief, death of a child, healing, Moving forward

    Category Death of a Child

    Death of a Child

    Keep the Door to Your Soul Open

    Sunday, December 17, 2017

    I was given a pocket size daily devotional after Mack died called “Healing After Loss” written by Martha Whitmore Hickman, who was also a bereaved parent. I carried it in my purse for […]

    Tags coping with grief, death of a child

    Category Death of a Child

    Death of a Child

    Día de Muertos: Eat, Speak, and Remember

    Friday, October 28, 2016

    The Oxford English dictionary defines “remember” as to “have in or be able to bring one’s mind an awareness of someone or something from the past.” I have thought a […]

    Tags death of a child, getting to the other side of grief, God, holidays, hope

    Category Death of a Child

    Death of a Child

    My Ten-Year Journey After Losing My Daughter

    Sunday, September 18, 2016

    I experienced the saddest moments of my life, as the unthinkable happened to my family, when Samar, my 18-year-old daughter died ten years ago. I never thought that what happened […]

    Tags coping with grief, death of a child

    Category Death of a Child

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