by Domenique Rice I once had the perception that grief was linear. I once thought grief was confined to a specific timeframe, and that it had a specific element of tidiness to it. Grief couldn’t last more than a year, right? I assumed if someone talked about grief, they must be “stuck in grief” […]
by Jamie Blanco I don’t like the word closure. It implies that some terrible experience or loss has been neatly addressed, packaged up and shipped out of your mind so that you can now function “normally” without excuse for emotional relapse. It assumes it’s a place at which you need to arrive, or else […]
by Cathy Jane Jensen This is our story, my son Aaron’s and mine and our family’s, of “grappling with grief” but it is also your story. Or at least it could be. For thirty-some years before Aaron dropped his beautiful body, my primary interest had been the evolution of consciousness. I had studied the […]
by Bonnie Kelly To put it simply, my dad died in 2004. I was 14. A tween who didn’t know who she was, let alone what the heck had just happened to her young family unit. From what I remember, my 14-year-old brain had it something like this: Dad started drinking Vitamin Water because […]
by Alexa Hill On February 11, 2019, my life was at its best. I was married to the most amazing man, we had just bought our first home, I had started a wonderful new job and (most importantly) I had a beautiful son who was celebrating his third birthday. At the end of the […]
by Becky Aud-Jennison You know that thing that happens when you’ve been thinking about something and then you start seeing it all over the place? People who get pregnant suddenly see pregnant people everywhere. The car model you just bought seems to suddenly be taking over the world. Those creepy Google ads that come […]
by Angela Suttner The night of December 21, 2016, my family’s life forever changed. We lost our son, Kenneth Louis Suttner, to bullycide. My husband and I planned our child’s funeral three days before Christmas. Kenny was only seventeen years old, and it made national news. Nearly six years later, I still think about […]
by Amber Bradbury One midsummer night on July 1, 2013, life as I knew it shattered. All it took was a knock on my door. Behind it stood two police officers sadly notifying me, the “next of kin,” that my mom was the victim of a fatal knife attack by her mentally deranged neighbor. […]
by Bianca Zimperi “Our lives will never be the same without our Lisa.” Those were the words written by my mom as she sat at our kitchen table in disbelief after ten shocking days in the ICU. She was struggling to understand how she found herself having to write an obituary for her beautiful […]
by Jamie Stewart It’s hard to believe one moment can change your life — that one moment can shatter your world. I was uneasy sitting in my chair, waiting to get called into the ultrasound room. I always got a little anxious prior to our appointments. The nervousness was definitely trumped by excitement, considering […]
