Photo by Anastasia Saldatava on Unsplash A Song of Confrontation Well, here you are standing on the edge and looking down No doubt you’re remembering what you traded and what you’ve found And everything you used to love and think that mattered You see left on the ground, thrown, broken and shattered Did you get…
Category: grief
When You’re In Pain, The Pain Is All There Is
Photo by Külli Kittus on Unsplash This is how to save a life. Pain. It’s completely mind-consuming. At least that’s the case with excruciating pain, like childbirth, earaches, and toothaches. Those are just the examples that come to my head immediately, and there’s a reason for that. I have an earache, and it’s been…
Live Your Life or Plan Your Death
About depression and a pet cricket named Elvis When I was a kid, I had a pet cricket named Elvis. Mama said you can’t really have a cricket for a pet. The truth is, I never saw him once, but Elvis sang to me every night, so I reckon he decided to keep me instead…
Six Simple Truths About Grief
I talk a lot about grief and recovery. I probably always will. My son was 16 when I found him dead on the couch one October morning. You can’t go through that unscathed. You don’t ever get to a place where you stop talking about it. Love always comes with the risk of loss. Death…
Side Effects of Tremendous Loss
Grief sucks. I’m going to go over a little bit of what happens when you have to say goodbye forever to someone you love. First, a bit of context. Shock. I lost my kid. Well, I didn’t exactly lose him. Horror. I know where he is. I hardly ever go there. There’s something disturbing about…
CAPACITY
The human mind has the capacity to believe any possible scenario to keep from facing the truth.
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