Life's Best Coach

07/24/2023

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While I certainly had no real idea in the first hours or even weeks what losing a child entailed, I understood plainly that it meant I would not have Dominic to see, hold or talk to. I wouldn’t be …

12/22/2022

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I find the advice on this list to be helpful.
It makes a big different how we speak to others when they hurt.

12/14/2022

12/02/2022

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It comes up again and again-and not just for the parents facing their year of “firsts”:  How do I survive December with a broken heart? There’s no single answer or list of things to …

11/28/2022

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1. Loss of identity, such as a lost role or affiliation.

11/17/2022

Thankyou The Compassionate Friends, UK 🧡

11/16/2022

There’s a part of the grieving process, where your soul kind of leaves your body too. As though it’s off searching for the one you lost, somewhere in the ether.

You walk around, doing all the right things, putting one foot in front of the other, living,but it’s really as though you’re the ghost.

Perhaps you are.
Perhaps your soul searches, until you find the one you miss, and they tell you to go back and live.

So, when that numbness passes brave one, maybe it’s time to do what you are told, go back and live, twice as hard.

You don’t belong there in the ether, nor do you need to search for the one you lost, they find you.

And when they do, you’ll feel it.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I Wish I knew’

Art by Amanda Cass

11/14/2022

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10. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

11/14/2022

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This says it so well. Thank you for the words.

There are no words when our hearts ache. Avoid saying, "I know how you feel." Words fail me at times, and grief is one place where acknowledging that failure is OK.

11/06/2022

Thanks

10/30/2022

TRANSCENDING LOVE

She's grieving her goodbyes while he waits to say hello.
She is yearning for his vision, her eyes won't let him go.
She's missing all he was but now he is of all.
She feels him in the lack so she cannot hear his call.

He whispers love in feathers but she's searching for his wings.
He calls her in the music, and in every word that sings.
He kisses her with raindrops that fall upon her face.
He twinkles at her truth from every star in space.

But she's falling to an empty place where angels fail to fly.
She needs to feel the love he is by reaching up on high.
In the wind he whistles, ne'er to say goodbye,
Forever sending feathers to help her on this plight.

One day she will remember the truth they hold together
And then his love can hold, surround her with forever.
Soon she'll feel that glow as his love lights up her star,
Till then he loves in whispers, just a twinkle from afar.

Heather Lea

Artwork by Giorgio Vaselli · Fine Art