My world shattered when I became a widow. I am now attempting to reassemble the broken shards into something damaged, fractured, and scarred, yet beautiful.
Originally posted on Becoming Bridge Builders: It’s Meet and Greet time! I’ve loved hosting these in the past, so I’m very excited to be hosting this one. Getting to know new bloggers and watching bloggers I like to get to know each other makes me happy! This is a party, and it’s meant to be…
Several months ago, long before I was quite ready to read it, a friend gave me a cute, little butterfly pin and a book about grief, Good Grief: Healing Through the Shadow of Loss by Deborah Morris Coryell. At the time, I was touched by the pin and immediately attached it to my purse, but […]
Some days are better than others. That’s the simplest explanation. There are days when I can look back at the life I had with A and smile at all of the amazing memories we made. I look at our three wonderful children and remember how proud of them he was, how excited he was for […]
I’m fairly certain most people have at least a working knowledge of the Five Stages of Grief (or Seven, depending on which school of thought you subscribe to). I know it was something I studied in an early Psychology class in college many moons ago, but as I was young and had been fairly protected […]