October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. To all of you grieving your own baby or wanting to support a friend or family member, I’m sending you a virtual hug. Experiencing neonatal loss was one of the hardest things I’ve been through. Grief is always hard no matter the type of loss. Pregnancy and infant loss presents us with some […]
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Healing Perinatal Loss
Last week I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Dr. Christina Hibbert, the host of Motherhood on Web Talk Radio about healing perinatal loss. Many of you know, this is a topic close to my heart as I experienced a loss 15 years ago. After several years of infertility, I gave birth to triplets in October 2000. Complications […]
Coping with Grief during the Holidays
Whether your loss is recent or the holidays have brought an old loss to the surface, the holiday season can be an especially challenging time. Grief is a time of re-assessing our priorities. It calls everything into question. It’s not uncommon for us to gain/lose friends, change jobs, or set new goals after someone we care about dies. It […]
Ways to Remeber Your Loved One’s Death Anniversary
By the time the first anniversary of your loved one’s death approaches, you’ve made it through a host of tough days. It is important to find ways to remember your loved one’s death anniversary. You may find that your grief and anxiety build in the days and weeks before the anniversary. For some, the anticipation is worse than the […]
How to support someone who’s grieving
It can be hard to be around someone who is grieving. They’re likely sad, crying, moody, angry. They may be isolating themselves, drinking too much or engaging in other self-destructive behaviors. There is no “right” thing to say or do that will comfort every grieving person. However, here are a couple of ideas: photo courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net Talk about […]
Remembering
Yesterday I attended a service to remember those who died this year while homeless. 39 men and women were memorialized. The youngest two (in their 20’s) were brothers who I knew briefly through my work at EHC’s youth shelter. Through a sad set of circumstances the older brother died earlier this year and his younger brother died just this month. […]