How loss, love, and weight loss became part of my healing journey Grief is strange. As I have been sharing, it can sit heavy on your chest and still somehow push you to move. It can make you feel weak and still reveal a strength you did not know you had. It can break your […]
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Not Everyone Can Hold Your Grief—and That’s Okay
If grief has taught me anything, it is that loss does not only change the empty chair at the table. Sometimes loss is a relationship that ended, a friendship that faded, a version of life you thought you would have, or a person who is still living but no longer close. Grief changes the way […]
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 […]
Thus far……………
I am struggling with the loss of my sister; September was especially hard because that was the month I lost her. I still feel some type of way when I hear people talk about their sisters and their relationships with them, but like I told my mum, “This is the card I have been dealt.” […]
Does it get better??????????
One evening after work, while I sat at the dining table awaiting the completion of my baby’s sterilization process, I sought to alleviate my boredom by browsing Instagram for inspirational content to share on my WhatsApp status. Unexpectedly, I stumbled upon a poignant video of a woman expressing her longing for her mother and revealing […]