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Latisha Just feelings

Its still hard for me to sleep at night. My doctor gave me "something" to help me sleep, but I don't feel I need to take it often. I spend most nights (that I'm off) awake in front of the tv. I hate that I don't feel motivated to do things around the house. Sometimes I want to move to another house but then I think about all that I would be leaving behind, the memories of her. I often turn off all emotions and just work on auto pilot. I hate that my husband isn't here, especially when I lay here… Continue

Added by Latisha on November 8, 2009 at 5:12am — No Comments

Jen Miller im not sure.....

Dear Aly, I thought about you today baby. i thought about you alot. i watched the notre dame game. they were your favorite team in all of football. So i went to your myspace page to read the comments that people wrote and i saw that Kyle and his girlfriend had a baby boy! he is soooo cute! you are an aunt! Tucker is soooo lucky to have an aunt like you watching over him. i even cried a little bit today cause you will never be able to meet Tucker and he will never be able to meet you. but i am s… Continue

Added by Jen Miller on November 7, 2009 at 11:56pm — No Comments

jenn murphy the good die young. the best choose how they go.

I was 16 when I lost the first person of great personal relevance to me - alright, it was Kurt Cobain and I was under the influence of great angst and the grunge movement - true, I had experienced the loss of my grandparents prior to Kurt's suicide, but those deaths were easier to reconcile with the natural course of life and the truth of mortality. Kurt's death was different, it was very personal to me and, combined with natural 16 year old self-involvement, directed me into a major period of i… Continue

Added by jenn murphy on November 5, 2009 at 3:29pm — No Comments

jenn murphy a brief musing

It keeps occurring to me, in a beat me over the head and smack me in the face kind of way, the total disparity between the almost instantaneous way in which I verbally began to refer to my mother in the past tense while on the other hand my mind, my imagination, my thoughts continue to function as though my mother was still present in my day-to-day life. Of course I'm struck by this often because my mother is pretty much all I think about these days. So, what is the deal? Is it two separate par… Continue

Added by jenn murphy on November 5, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Valley of Life Grief Support: Getting Through This Holiday Season

The holidays can be a stressful time for many people. Those that have recently lost a loved one, or are marking the anniversary of the death of a loved one, may find the holiday season especially difficult. The best way to cope with holiday grief is to mentally prepare oneself for it. There is nothing you can do to prevent holiday grief from happening, and you shouldn’t aim for that. Grief is a natural and healthy part of life. But there is some advice you can heed in order to quell overwhelming… Continue

Added by Valley of Life on November 4, 2009 at 5:32pm — No Comments

Valley of Life Memorializing A Loved One With Time Rather Than Money

During the United States’ grim economic times, families have had to pinch pennies in many areas of their lives, especially when it comes to remembering a loved one that has passed. Funerals, like many other highlights in a person’s life, can cost families thousands of dollars. In reality, one does not need to spend a lot of money to memorialize and remember a loved one who is no longer with us. There are many options families can choose from to memorialize one who has passed that require little… Continue

Added by Valley of Life on November 4, 2009 at 5:29pm — No Comments

Valley of Life Bereavement At Any Age

Grief comes in many shades and colors. On average, each of the 2.5 million deaths every year in the United States directly affects four people, each of whom has a unique way of dealing with bereavement based on gender, culture, personality, and age. Age makes a tremendous difference in how grief affects us. A teenager will deal with death much differently than a 70-year-old will. Understanding how grief manifests in people differently at… Continue

Added by Valley of Life on November 4, 2009 at 5:27pm — No Comments

Leslie Taylor So angry, sad, confused, lost, stuck...

I recently (2 months or so ago) went through a breakup of a relationship of almost 2 years, and I am really having a hard time dealing with some of it. I know it's not as final as a death, but I am still grieving, and I feel like total crap. I don't have a lot of time to go and see traditional counselors, and sometimes I even feel like they have NO CLUE about what's going on with me because they are educated and trained to give advice, but it makes me wonder if they have EVER gone through what… Continue

Added by Leslie Taylor on October 30, 2009 at 12:01am — 2 Comments

Jen Miller doing better

well i am happy to tell everyone that i think i am doing better. i am happy to tell myself that. my grandma doesnt have stomach cancer. and there is a possibility that she has another type of cancer but the chance is not as great as before. so it could be something else. And for the first time in 3 months, i am able to talk about Aly without crying or breaking down. i am trying to move on with my life, and i am still stuck here thinking about that dreadful day, but i am working my way through… Continue

Added by Jen Miller on October 29, 2009 at 11:03pm — No Comments

Diana Young Grief Not so Bad After All - WHAT, I beg to differ

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/grief-maybe-not-so-bad-after-all/ Continue

Added by Diana Young on October 28, 2009 at 9:50am — No Comments

Jen Miller what else?

Well this week will probably get worse. On top of trying to deal with the loss of my friend, schoolwork becoming extremely frustrating, my sister moving out, and trying to take a breath, my grandma is extremely sick. Shes not eating alot and she is very weak......She has had stomach cancer before but they said it was all gone. She went to hell and back with the treatments. Well today she had a CAT scan and we dont know the results but they said there is a good chance that it is stomach cancer… Continue

Added by Jen Miller on October 26, 2009 at 11:29pm — 2 Comments

jenn murphy my ears have popped

For me grief has been something like this; you know when you're in an airplane or at a loud concert or club and your ears plug up so that everything outside of your own thoughts is muffled and garbled and ultimately it becomes too much effort to attempt to focus on anything outside yourself (maybe that part is just me - I'm both lazy and self absorbed)? Then suddenly, out of the blue, your ears pop and unplug and you are hyper-sensitive to the slightest sound? So I was all plugged up for the f… Continue

Added by jenn murphy on October 19, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Benny Shipton Times going too fast

When my dad died 7 months ago i didn't really allow myself to grieve properly and i just got back to work and going out with my friends, and drinking alot. now i look back and can't believe how much time has passed. I feel like i want to stop everything so that i don't get any further away from when it happened. I want to be able to break down and take some time to deal with this but i feel like i should have done it 7 months ago, and now the world around has moved on and it's like im not allowe… Continue

Added by Benny Shipton on October 18, 2009 at 8:31pm — 1 Comment

Jen Miller i dont know what to do....

so right now i just feel like screaming at the top of my lungs. i want to scream and cry. but i cant. I want to scream at somebody and tell them that i hate them for taking her away from me. i want to know why they took a 14 year old girl away from me? She was my friend. how could they do that? she had her whole life ahead of her! she was the strongest person i know. how could you do this to me? to her family?.........but i have no one to yell at because no one is to blame. No one killed her. Sh… Continue

Added by Jen Miller on October 18, 2009 at 2:19am — 2 Comments

Katie Grace Poem

This is a poem I wrote after my mother was diagnosed with cancer The Light out of the Tunnel In this dark hour I feel trapped because I've buried this pain deep inside I try to ignore these feelings but they bubble up and are too strong to hide My fear and helplessness lead me to cry out in desperation Cause I cannot bear the thought of losing another and somehow feeling less whole And I try to understand this journey and the reason for things in life But it's hard to see past this darkness th… Continue

Added by Katie Grace on October 11, 2009 at 1:11pm — No Comments

donna henderson this dream i keep having

my friend kathleen is haunting me in my dreams and its always the same dream. i am in port coquitlam, and she is there then i see her and call out kathleen kathleen, and then poof she disappears into thin air. i miss her so much its been almost two years now and i wish i she could come back to life. is she trying to tell me something, and why is the dream always the same? Continue

Added by donna henderson on October 9, 2009 at 11:42pm — 1 Comment

Diana Young email from my sister Carolyn requesting Prayer

Hi Melanie, Diana and Mom, I want to share some news with you, because I know extra prayers can be powerful. Joshua lost a co-worker/friend this week. His friend, Andy, was on his way home from work Monday, and just innocently stopped at a stop sign waiting on traffic. Apparently a semi driver failed to heed his stop sign, and swerved, attempting to miss a car that was in the intersection with the right of way. This caused the semi trailer to tip over onto Andy's car, crushing it. Andy was pron… Continue

Added by Diana Young on October 8, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

Kathryn Rolland I Miss Her So Much

My best friend in the whole world passed away unexpectedly 2wks ago. I miss her so much. Dealing with it is difficult. I have gotten sick and am now having to deal with this plus missing her. She was like a sister to me. We had known eachother since second grade, almost 50 yrs. Is there anyone else out there that can relate to my feelings? I lost others close to me, but this is very different. Continue

Added by Kathryn Rolland on October 7, 2009 at 5:02pm — 1 Comment

Diana Young Billy Graham

Sometimes religious emails are better than some of the funny ones we get and pass on.... Priceless . Billy Graham was returning to Charlotte after a speaking engagement and when his Plane arrived there was a limousine there to transport him to his home. As he prepared to get into the limo, he stopped and spoke to the driver. 'You know' he said, 'I am 87 years old and I have never Driven a limousine. Would you mind if I drove it for a while?' The driver said, 'No problem. Have at it.' Billy… Continue

Added by Diana Young on October 6, 2009 at 5:37pm — No Comments

jenn murphy I am at the point these last few days where I can rationally work through the reality that my mother…

I am at the point these last few days where I can rationally work through the reality that my mother is gone. When I focus on that idea I can work it through to it's logical end and accept that all we have are our memories of Her. Luckily for us those memories are so full of Her incredible, indestructible spirit that they will not easily be lost. And then I lie in bed and close my eyes. That's when the instinctual part of my brain makes itself heard and reverberating through my mind, through… Continue

Added by jenn murphy on October 6, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

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Its still hard for me to sleep at night. My doctor gave me "something" to help me sleep, but I don't feel I need to take it often. I spend most nights (that I'm off) awake in front of the tv. I hate that I don't feel motivated to do things around ...
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