Tag: grief

"It’s interesting when you’re in crisis the subtle things you do to shield people from knowing how bad things really are or how sad...

When the holidays roll around I feel the absence of my mother acutely. If you've lost a parent, I bet you do too.

Please know that we are not jealous of your joy. But that seeing others happy can be a devastating reminder. Of the pronounced void that now exists. Please love us. Through our pain.

"She was a conqueror. I wish I could say the same when it came to that November day. Oh, she was a lone soldier, but she didn’t conquer that day."

"My dad wouldn’t tell me anything over the phone or by text and insisted he would meet me at home... There’s no way this was happening to me and my family. There is no way this could be real. Well, in fact it was real."

"This was the first holiday without Beth. It was the 'first' in my 'year of firsts,' and I didn’t realize how gut-wrenching every first holiday, anniversary, and birthday was going to be without her."

"We take solace in knowing he is with his Heavenly Father," wrote Granger.

"That one last high led me to a room, brain in a fog, staring at caskets trying to decide which one my little girl should be buried in. That one last high led to writing an obituary, planning a funeral and a house full of flowers from grieving friends and family."