For Bereaved Parents: When Your Grief Journey Feels Lonely
The world keeps spinning. The sun rises and sets. People laugh, talk, and go about their days. But for a parent who has lost a child, everything has stopped. The world as you knew it ended the day you said goodbye. Now, you find yourself on a new, unwelcome grief journey, one that is often shrouded in a heavy, deafening silence. If you feel like you are navigating this path alone, please know this: you are not. So many of us in the child loss community understand this profound loneliness. The Isolating Silence of Grief This silence can feel like a fortress, protecting you from the well-meaning but often painful…
Why It’s Important to Talk About Your Children Who Are No Longer Here
Have you ever noticed how much people clam up and will not mention a child’s name when child loss has taken place? To bereaved parents, this is one of the biggest hurts of all. What we need — what we’re wanting so desperately — is to know that our child has not been forgotten! Hearing our child’s name spoken is the sweetest name we can ever hear!
