The death of a child adds a layer of complexity to many aspects of grieving. A parent’s instinct to protect. Pride. And above all the desire to surround your child with love. My unspoken was…
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“Those are tears in my back,” I thought. “The tissues and muscles are knotted up with all my sadness.” Many people say that labour is the most intensely physical experience there is. For me, the physical…
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You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming.. That’s where I’ll be waiting. Parkes (1969) who has studied grief in humans and its equivalent in animals has…
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55 hours. I wanted to stretch those moments out until they bent and snapped. Even in the finality of death, and all that came afterwards, I wanted to linger in every final stage. In…
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“Sometimes our own stories are the hardest ones to tell. But if they are not told, they become something else. Forgotten.” Words have always held a fascination for me, the rhythm, the rise and fall,…
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Grief is a bit like stepping from island to island. It comes in waves and we try to hold on with love until we get to the next island, to the next moment of…