Today’s guest post is from Kristie West, a grief specialist who focuses on helping those who have lost parents. The advice Kristie gives in this post is helpful for anyone who is experiencing the bereavement of a loved one. ***** How to move beyond grief when you’ve lost your mum or dad and why it’s […]
There’s some context here that should probably be put in place before you start Frost’s poem. As you may realize, there were/are places and times where cemeteries as we know them today didn’t exist. And during these times when there weren’t massive cemeteries with thousands of bodies buried beneath, the dead were simply buried […]
Today’s guest post is from Kerstin Knaack. I was referred to this post about two weeks ago when it was posted on shelovesmagazine.com. It’s immensely powerful, so I asked Kerstin if she’d be willing to share her story here. Thankfully, she obliged. ***** I am ten weeks pregnant. It takes courage for me to tell […]
I’ve often spoken about the silent grief of miscarriages. I’ve spoken about how the mother, and father, will often bear the weight of the grief, when too few friends and family are willing to be sympathetic. Surely, the grief of miscarriages is a complicated grief process. And yet, I’m not sure how it rivals the complicated […]
I’m not too sure I like the idea of arriving to heaven in a state of human perfection, where I’m free of my mistake ridden, gas producing body; and, where I somehow transcend my sometimes mischievous, often depraved, usually creative and darkened mind. I don’t like the perfect me. Or, rather, I don’t like perfect me […]