By Sasha Howell When your parents die a piece of you dies with them. However, when your parents die, a new piece of you is also born. I was 29 years old on January 28, 2013, when my Mom was killed instantly in a car crash. We had returned from a trip to Cuba […]
By Derek Richford Harry was born on November 2, 2017, and died seven days later following gross failings in care at East Kent Hospitals Trust in Kent, U.K. My daughter-in-law Sarah and my son Tom had a text-book pregnancy with no issues at all, it was considered to be a low-risk pregnancy. When he […]
By Emily Smith I’ve been experiencing grief since childhood, though at that time it was unnamed. Grief was an unwelcomed, nameless visitor sitting at the dinner table, lurking in the shadows. I first experienced grief as I witnessed my mother’s struggles with her mental health intensify, to the point that being a mother was […]
By Kate Hammond At around 2:30 a.m. on February 9, 2021, I felt our one-year-old son Miles take his final breath. My husband and I put our hands on his tiny little chest as his heart slowed and then stopped, those final beats taking with them the world as we knew it. Even though […]
By Karen Sykes I am a 55-year-old nurse a widow, a mum of three daughters and a grandma to Eleanor Bethany. In October 2015, suddenly and completely out of the blue, I lost my beloved husband Ian to suicide. Ian was a vibrant, clever, funny and kind man who was a devoted father. His […]
By Claudia Chappel I was a single mother to two wonderful very young children and a successful professional artist. I supported them by painting tiles for people’s homes. It allowed me to be home with my children. At the age of 53, I experienced the unimaginable. There was a knock at my door and […]
By Bella Lynn Thompson Grief is a personal path. No one can tell you how to walk on this journey. Personally, I think grief sucks! My husband died suddenly of a massive heart attack seven years ago. He was gorgeous inside and out, grounded, strong, affectionate, and funny. Whenever something was tough in our […]
by Kelsey and Sierra Our friendship began during our senior year of high school during church summer camp. Soon after, we became inseparable. During camp, I (Sierra) shared with Kelsey about losing my mom a few years prior. I explained my struggle with grief and how isolating it can feel. As our week ended, […]
by Tressa Bellows For most of my adult life, when asked about myself, I have started off with “I am a mom, of three beautiful daughters.” Our family of five, plus one dog, one cat and countless hamsters and beta fish, was remarkable in its beautifully simple normalcy–sleepovers, soccer games, pets, little family traditions […]
by Suzanne Elvidge My husband Tim died suddenly in February 2018. We’d had a glorious night out with friends the night before, and gossiped and snuggled as we fell asleep. Tim was restless, but that wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. And then my world fell apart in the early hours of the morning […]
