grief
Losing a family member is one of the most traumatic life events; Families must support one another to endure the five stages of grief and get through it together.
What's going on MOM?
Dear Mom, It has been two years since you left this world, I still miss you. But I still hold the lessons you taught me that have held me through my life. You were different, working since the start of World War II. You have held your own beholding to no man. You were never dependent on any company or guy. You made in this world on your terms. Your way. If there was a position that you wanted you went for it, if it required further education, you got it. Never taking no for answer.
By Paul Herrera5 years ago in Families
Poetic Wisdom in a Wire-bound Notebook
My mom died on a rainy Tuesday in August, and I was angry at her for a long time because of it. I still had four months left in my pregnancy; four months full of weird discharge and scary sensations and conflicting advice coming in from every angle...how would I know what was normal if I didn't have my rational, seasoned mother to tell me?
By Jessica Conaway5 years ago in Families
A letter for my wife
Hey babe it’s me, just checking in on you before you check in on me. I just wanted to let you how wonderful you are to me. How wonderful you were to me, I know our marriage wasn’t perfect. To me that was ok because I’d rather been imperfect and known it was perfect, known that two strangers who said the words I do; that we stood through our vows. To know I took on the responsibilities of a blended family, to you moving across the country to see me, marry; picked your whole life to be with me.
By Marcus Waters5 years ago in Families
The Things You Left Behind. Top Story - May 2021.
My boyfriend and I talk a lot about healing and growing as people. I share with him the deepest parts of myself, my soul, my thoughts, and my journey on trying to heal from the pain of the last few years. This week marked a big first in the last three years of my life, and I got to share with him that I, for the first time in a long time around this particular day, I was okay. The first Mother's Day I didn't break down crying at the thought of you. This is the first year where I wasn't sitting in dread over things like the day I lost you, or your birthday, or now, Mother's Day. I managed to smile and laugh, wishing Grandma and his Mom a happy one, and then I moved on. The thoughts don't leave, the absence never fully goes away, but for the first time since you left, it isn't tearing away at my being.
By MacKenzie Duncan5 years ago in Families
If you hide, I will find you.
Early attachment trauma is a distressing or harmful experience that affects a child’s ability to form healthy interpersonal relationships. It includes abuse, abandonment, and neglect of an infant or child prior to age two or three. These traumas can have subtle yet long-lasting effects on a person’s emotional health.
By Intrinsic Affinity5 years ago in Families
My Mom with the Superpowers
I now realize that the love my mother gave her children was all that she could give. I list my father at the age of four so that left my mother to take care of five children by herself. And through the years it wasn’t easy and she didn’t hide it from me. I would ask her about my father and she wouldn’t answer my questions. People would call the house for him and she would tell me to tell them that he wasn’t home.
By Rasheeda Hampton-Johnson5 years ago in Families
Transforming PTSD into Triumph
When you have a major event happen in your life that literally has you wanting to give up, to throw in the towel and want to die, you have 2 choices, to persevere and live, or go and want to give in and die. This was me almost 5 years ago, I was broken, shattered a mess, full of scars internally and externally, abused physically, mentally and sexualy. I wanted to die, especially after the last straw, in which my youngest and closest "little" brother passed away at 39. I did not see a reason to live, felt I killed him, the blame over took me as well as the physical and emotional pain of losing him.
By Lisa Quinn5 years ago in Families
What do you do...
I realize this site is about stories. Well, this is part of my story. My mother died a little over a month ago on the morning of Easter Sunday, 4 Apr 2021. Now, a month later, I find myself motherless on Mother’s Day for the first time in the fifty years of my life.
By EJ Arundel5 years ago in Families
My First Solo Adventure
Mother’s day this year has brought out a new sense of sadness into our family and haziness to a once bright day full of trips to the zoo, breakfast in bed, and handwritten cards with drawings of intricate flowers once made by my brother and myself in our early youth. Since I’ve been able to hold a pen writing has been my passion and so every year I’ve written my mother a card on her day of celebration. My brother on the other hand is the artist of the family and while I would attempt an illustration for her, he would excel.
By Sarah Smith5 years ago in Families
