My grandma once told me, “You can’t be all things to all people.” But dang it if I wasn’t going to try. As my grandma once told me, you can’t be all things to all people. I’ve been everything. I’ve been the shy, quiet girl. I’ve been the party girl. I’ve been the loud, “life…
Your grief does not make me uncomfortable. I won’t try to fix your grief. I won’t tell you platitudes like, “They’re in a better place,” or, “At least you had x amount of time with them.” I won’t dismiss or invalidate your feelings. I won’t tell you not to cry. I won’t tell you that…
I will never stop grieving the loss of my mother to Alzheimer’s disease. I thought that when my mother died, my grief would soon be over. But I was wrong.
Are you searching for the right sympathy gifts to show someone you care? It is so difficult to know what to say or do to soothe a grieving heart. In recent years, I have experienced the loss of my mother, my stepmother, my uncle, my grandparents, and family friends, and I still sometimes struggle to…
Before I had babies, the last diaper I changed was my mother’s. She entered hospice care when I was pregnant with my first daughter and passed away, almost two years later, when I was pregnant with my second daughter. Despite the grief and struggle, taking care of my mom as her health declined through early onset Alzheimer’s disease prepared…
