Today’s guest post is written by Lynsie Lee: They say you can’t help someone if they don’t want it for themselves. You can shove resources into their face, offer time, money, every ounce of yourself. But if they don’t want help, there is nothing you can do. Sadly, this is the case with my mother […]
Disenfranchised grief is grief that is not recognized by society. One MAJOR type of disenfranchised grief that I often mention is the result of stillbirths and miscarriages. A grief for one who had no connections in life. No schoolmates, no friends, no co-workers … all of which translates to no funeral. A grief that can’t […]
Today’s guest post is written by Samantha Allington. **** On Thursday 8th September 2011 I was 19 weeks and 3 days pregnant when my waters broke at home. I knew in that instant that my baby wouldn’t survive but I still wanted to hang on to the little bit of hope that some miracle would happen […]
Many of us have the gift of moving through the grief process as we find a way — often after years and years of remaking — to put grief to a restless slumber. Anne Lamott writes, “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news […]
When an individual dies, that death throws a web of relationships out of balance, causing the bereaved to *attempt* to find a new homeostasis. This disrupted “new normal” is best found together in community. When grief isn’t shared. When there is no community to share it. When it isn’t recognized by society, then grief becomes […]