A Journey Toward Healing the Heart I was in the shower the other day when I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness; my head started spinning, and I felt lightheaded. Here came the flood of tears; I cried myself to sleep. I felt alone because I am in Las Vegas for work and don’t have […]
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How Grief Forced Me to Reflect on Life
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 […]
Do You Know Someone Grieving?
How to Support a Friend or Loved One Through Loss This post is for people who have friends or family members going through a tough time with grief. I’ve come to understand that those around a person who is grieving might not know how to help, not because they don’t care, but because they might […]
Grief: Self-Pity and Self-Loathing
It is no news that grief has been a constant companion in my life, the loss of my sister; this was when everything seemed to shift beneath my feet. So far, I have written about how grief isn’t just about sadness or anger; now, I want to discuss the unexpected emotions that surface: self-pity and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.” […]
Mic check……….1……….2……….
I have not written in a while, not because I don’t have or know what to write but because I have not been motivated. July to September are the most challenging part of the year because, on the 4th of July weekend, I saw my sister face to face in North Carolina; August was when […]
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 […]
Why me????????????
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt alone, and nothing seems to go your way or nothing seems to work? Have you ever thought that everything bad that could happen always happens to you, but you know people that nothing bad ever happens to them; everything is always peachy? Well, I don’t […]