My Journey Toward Deeper Meaning Through Loss As the final days of 2025 slipped quietly away, I found myself reflecting on all that the past years had brought—joys, challenges, and, most profoundly, the loss of my sister. Each New Year’s Eve used to be a time for celebration and anticipation, but now, the turning of […]
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Grief- Surviving and not Living
If you’ve been reading along with me, you know that at the end of every post, I always write that we are LIVING and GRIEVING. While scrolling through Instagram like everyone else, I saw a post about survival and not truly living. It made me think about myself and that statement, and I started to […]
The Grief No One Understands
I have been writing about losing my sister, and my last post talked about my daughter and how difficult it was for her to go into my sister’s house, and the time it took to convince her. Since then, I thought that now that we got the trip out of the way, it would be […]
Going Back to Move Forward
For the past two years and ten months, I have consciously avoided returning to Georgia, as it is where my sister resided. I left Georgia in October 2022, and since then, neither my daughter—whom my sister regarded as her own child—nor I have returned. While I am her biological mother, my sister played a significant […]
Finding Hope After Loss: Embracing Your Grief
In my previous post, I wrote about my mother’s experiences coping with grief following the passing of my sister. However, I did not mention that this was not her first experience losing a child; in fact, it was her second. Before my brother Benjamin was born, she had another son who transitioned when he was […]
Grief and Gratitude……………….
In the last 2 years I have struggled with being thankful for things like waking up in the morning, being in sound health, having a job, my kids, my family and everything else that mattered and matters. Through this experience I have realized grief and gratitude might seem like polar opposites, but they often coexist […]
Staying away from the place of WHY………….
I recently wrote a blog post about getting out of the place of Why, because that was the resolution I came to. As I stated in that post, asking why does not help the reason we are grieving; instead, it deepens our self-pity, and blah blah blah……….. go read the previous post. Anyway, I made […]