Let’s get right to it: losing your only sibling as a teenager is a gut punch that doesn’t just knock the wind out of you—it rearranges your entire emotional anatomy. It’s not just grief. It’s identity theft. One day you’re…
Hey there. Welcome to “Grief Isn’t a Flowchart,” the blog post where I’m diving into the infamous Five Stages of Grief. If you haven’t heard of this yet (lucky you!) they are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Sounds neat, right?…
Hey. I’m not here to sugarcoat anything. This post isn’t going to be easy, and it’s not going to be pretty. But if you’re here, maybe you’re like me. Maybe you’ve lost a child. Or maybe you love someone who…
So here we are.If you’re here, you might be facing the unthinkable: Burying your child.Even saying that out loud feels like a betrayal of nature.Children aren’t supposed to die before their parents.And yet, some of us are forced to make…
Hi. I’m a mom who lost her perfectly healthy teenage daughter to pneumonia in 2011.Yep – pneumonia.Not a car crash.Not a drug overdose.Not some dramatic Lifetime movie plot.Just good old-fashioned, come the hell out of nowhere and take your child…
