I did not know that after a suicide, your guilt could kill you until my brother died in June of 1994. Two years later, my mother began showing symptoms of a neurological problem, and she was [...]
When grief is in your body, you feel that bone-tired, dragging one foot in front of the other, fatigue. It can also feel like the grief is sucking the energy from your mind, emotions and heart. [...]
Everyone knows that grief comes unbidden. The common belief is that thoughts always precede feelings, however, when you are grieving, you may not even be thinking about your child, and suddenly [...]
It is very, very important for parents to say to each of their surviving children, “You are not (the name of the child who died), you are (the name of the child you are speaking to).” In our [...]
When you are overcome by grief, it feels like you are adrift on an iceberg that is breaking up in a dance fog. This can lead to feelings of fatigue, devastation, confusion, chaos, despair, shame, [...]
