Mother’s Day Prep: The 3 Key Ingredients to Getting Through This Week
I was approached to write for an amazing website called TheGriefToolbox.com. I am very excited to share my first blog post for them with you. This whole mother's day thing can be a real drag when you don't have a mother. Advertisements on the radio and television... emails piling up in your mailbox... plans being created all around you. When you don't have a mother to celebrate, it's quite possible to feel like the loneliest person on the planet this week, especially, on Mother's Day.
Read MoreTaking the sting away from the word “Mother”
That word! It has so much energy attached to it...What ideas can you come up with to take the sting away?
Read MoreMissing Your Mom on Mother’s Day: Mothers Day Prep 2012 – Part Three
How do you deal with being bombarded with Mother's Day commercials when you don't have a mother?
Read MoreBlack & Blue: Moving on from Painful Memories
I had a 1998 blue VW beetle. It was the most amazing car. My dad bought it for me originally. I had a job when I was 17, so I made payments towards the car as an agreement with my dad. It was half of my paycheck, but I didn’t care. I had a cool car and looking at it every day made me happy. Beautiful. Electric. Blue. 10 years later, I was driving in Brooklyn, hit a pot hole and ruptured the oil pan. The car died and I felt like I did too. I felt like it was my dad dying all over again. There were so many memories associated with this car, I couldn’t believe it until it was time to decide to either fix the car or get rid of it. I felt protected. I felt like my dad was around me. If I don’t have this car, does that mean that he is no longer...
Read MoreMissing Your Mom on Mother’s Day: Mothers Day Prep 2012 – Part Two
This weeks topic: To distract or dive in to feelings? That is the question. My advice: decide what kind of person you are and how you'd like to deal with this day.
Read MoreSeriously, who am I supposed to get life advice from now?
By age 12, I had traveled alone to Texas & Brazil. By 15, I was traveling to New York City by myself frequently. At 17, I had moved out on my own. By 24, I had started my own business. I think it's safe to say that am no stranger to doing it alone... So now that my parents are gone, who gives the life advice?
Read MoreMissing Your Mom on Mother’s Day: Mothers Day Prep 2012 – Part One
Mother's Day is 7 weeks away. When a holiday like this comes around, it's easy to feel left out. This year I'm going to post often about this topic to help all of us who need support. Here's a few steps to get us started.
Read MoreGuest Blog Entry: Just Surviving by Caitlin Maloney
Caitlin Maloney submitted a guest blog post to us. She lost her mom @ age 8 and her dad 3 years ago to suicide. Contact Caitlin if you want to connect with her.
Read MoreThe New & Improved LosingYourParents.org
I’ve spent most of this beautiful weekend enjoying the weather on the back porch making improvements to my blog including: re-doing the entire back end of LosingYourParents.org re-hooking up my rss feed so you can pull it into your mail or rss feed program sharing photos of things that inspire me via flickr on my sidebar sharing what music I’m listening to and inspired by on my sidebar comments from others are now visible on the sidebar integrating my twitter feed (follow me! @LosingParents) making all categories visible on each page setting up an archive so you can view older posts easier adding more resources to my grief resources page, including where to find grief groups (if you have more resources, please contact me!) making the site load faster ...
Read MoreMy Favorite Grief Books
When my dad died, I went home that day to the apartment we shared in Yardville, NJ and I felt like he was around me. There were signs everywhere… my stereo was stuck on a Cranberries song, Time is Ticking Out. The PC computer keyboard caps lock and num lock was not on, it was not off – but BLINKING…! no hands on the keys… this has never happened before… my quiet cat, Bastian, sitting in my room, staring up in the corner, MEOWING for about 10 minutes. The smell of my dad’s fart in the room (what??? LOL yes, he was family famous for his farts…haha). OKAY so… I don’t believe my dad was just here one day and gone the next. His body, was strangely uninhabited when I woke up next to him that day… the scariest...
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