Life. Wow, it is so difficult and yet exhilarating and scary because life keeps on changing!! My biggest change I’ve ever faced is dealing with life after loss! That, in fact, is the hardest change that for some reason I continue to face on a daily basis. I remember the change that is also known Read more
Oh, lovely one, in this world of constant excitement over the New Year…New Beginnings… a Fresh Start, yet you’ve lost what you can’t replace. You can’t move on or start fresh, the pain of losing what you can’t hold, you have a hard time breathing much less creating a New Years Resolution so how do you Read more
Well, lovely one another year is in the books and, to be honest, I’m floored. This year has been a big one for me, both personally and professionally. First the personal… As you may already know, my grief comes everywhere with me and well this can make it very difficult to find a life worth Read more
What is …. just is … the incredibly difficulty is finding the peace in what is versus going back to what was- After Chloe A few days ago I wrote a post called The Answer in succession to the post Where do I go from here?. If you want to read them click here for Read more
On Monday I wrote a blog post – if you haven’t read it yet, click here to read it now. And I proposed that you ask yourself some questions…Not for anyone else to get or even to understand the answers but for you to get honest and real with yourself. This isn’t to shame or Read more
Changes… What a word. Recently I’ve become very aware of changes. “Why” you may ask? Well truthfully I’ve looked around and I have a friend that’s moving, I also have a friend that has lost her job of 13 years and most of all a lot is changing in my own life. It’s difficult, it’s Read more
As I attempted to write this blog post for the last week (yup, a whole week) I come to the screen and my mind goes blank. Gratitude. Well I can write all day every day about how grateful I am for my life. Grief… well I do actually speak and write about this topic all Read more
What do lying and grief have to do with each other? Everything!!! We will tell ourselves lies in order to cope. We tell ourselves lies to be able to convince everyone else (so,we think). We think that if we tell ourselves the truth that in fact, the loss is real?! And we can’t truly deal Read more
When you have faced losing your child (my child, Chloe was an infant) there is a stigma. Being that 1 in 4 pregnancy loss/infant loss/child loss, it’s devastating. Yet there is always that one human that will allude to having “another” child will somehow make it better…replace…I can’t even continue to type any of what Read more
I write this blog with so many emotions… I can’t believe we (yes I have an amazing VA that helps me with the technical components of After Chloe) have blogged for 31 Days in a row! I’m in awe and actually a bit sad that #31dayslivingafterloss is coming to an end. Have you signed up Read more
