Tag: death
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How To Make Trauma Your Bitch
“Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.” – Jennifer Brown When you experience something traumatic, it changes how you look at the world. When I was 20 years old, I found my fitness-crazed, healthy-eating Dad dead. He was 48. I was 11 weeks pregnant with my first child,…
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How Abandonment Creates Room For Something Better
Someone I love is leaving. He has an amazing opportunity that he would be a fool not to take. I am truly ecstatic for him – he deserves this. But it’s hit me hard that he won’t be close any longer. And as I sat in his driveway and cried, the thought that immediately popped…
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What Grief Taught Me About the Importance of Perception
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Shortly after I found out I was expecting my first child and just two weeks after I told him that he was going to be a Granddad, my dad died unexpectedly. Although in hindsight there were several signs,…