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How Losing My Son Opened the Eyes of My Heart

“I like your tattoo,” I said to my server as I tried to hide myself from the other restaurant patrons. With my back to the rest of the…

Years ago, I received a phone call from a former co-worker, telling me that a student I knew had been hit by a car and died. She was just about to…

Dear Loss Mama, It’s Mother’s Day and here you are. A mother without her baby. Your motherhood might go unrecognized by the world around…

When you lose a child, the world, offensively and frustratingly, keeps turning. This fact has been one of the hardest to deal with in the four…

Sweet mamas, I needed to share the heart of a labor and delivery nurse with you. I just finished a weekend of 12-hour night shifts in a usually…

How does a person prepare for something they have never experienced? I have planned and prepared for my oldest son’s graduation. I have been to…

Just a week prior, we had been giggling with excitement about the baby she was expecting! Despite some health problems she’d been experiencing,…

There are still days that I stare down the road where we live. It’s the same road that my son Tyler was on when a car accident took his…

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them… It is so easy to be scared. I remember thinking back to when I lost my son…

I remember that at one point when I was young, I think I was 7 or 8, my parents told me I had to come to a funeral with them of some great auntie I…