When Your Therapist Drops a Truth Bomb on You
Although I feel like I’ve been hit by a ton of bricks after my therapy sessions, these truth bombs from my therapist are what I need to hear.
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Grief Doesn’t Get Easier, It Just Changes Form
They say grief gets easier with time. I don’t think it gets easier. It just changes form. In those first few days, weeks, and months, I was lost in my own grief. Then I transformed.
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How Grief Has Changed Me
Y’all, I miss my mom like crazy every day; but I can’t look past the change in myself without her here. I can’t deny the way that grief has changed me.
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We Marked SeaWorld off MaMaw’s Bucket List
The rides, shows, and all-around family fun at SeaWorld was just what we needed to keep us focused on what we have, yet gently remind us of what we lost.
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Facing Holidays for the First Time Without My Mom
For the first time in my life, I’m less than excited about the holidays. Honestly? I’m down-right dreading them. I didn’t even realize Thanksgiving was this Thursday until we got a note from our church last week that there would be no Wednesday night service this week due to the holiday. That’s when it hit….
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Goodnight, Mom. I Love You.
I stood at the foot of my mom’s hospital bed watching as my sister stroked Mom’s hair and kissed her goodnight. I observed the machines around the bed. Medicines dripped through IV lines while various colored lights shone through the dimly lit room. Beeps and alarms randomly permeated the otherwise quiet ICU floor. I slid…
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In Honor of Sgt. Samuel E. Kelsey for Memorial Day
Memorial Day is upon as and as we spend the day celebrating a day off from work {for some at least}, we should also remember those that have gone before us and sacrificed their lives for the freedoms we have today. My dad, along with both of my grandfathers, most of my uncles and several cousins, have…
