How I wish no one else would become a survivor of suicide loss. One suicide is one too many, and the pain it leaves behind ripples deep and wide and stays for years and years.
Category: Well-Being
Perimenopause can happen in your early forties or younger, and it can show as anxiety or brain fog. It’s more than hot flashes, and it can show up earlier than you thought it would.
How do we celebrate Christmas now during this unusual and unrehearsed time of our lives? How do we go about this holiday season that’s traditionally filled with happy, colorful places and lovely, familiar faces, with exchanges of hugs and kisses as well as food and gifts but is now expected to be tempered by pandemic health and safety protocols, by sadness and grief over personal and practical losses?
Old me would have been complaining about how exhausted I am mentally and emotionally. But strangely, I have been able to stay calmer and gentler with myself, better able to slow down, to say no, to simply be.
I left the funeral with a heart filled with grief and a head filled with the enormous, urgent task of calling on all of us – parents, guardians, adults, humans of the world – to take care of the children…
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