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Opinion | You don't survive a parent's death. You just keep living after they're gone. I haven’t fully processed the pain of losing her two years later, and I doubt I ever fully will. But it is slowly getting easier.

Surviving The Holidays: 12 Tips For The Grieving My late husband passed away in early October 2009, and within two weeks I dealt with my daughter’s third birthday. Six weeks after that was our first Thanksgiving without Mitch, and a month later, Christmas.Wow, talk about being hit with an emotional sledgehammer. The holidays are hard on people e...

After My Mom Died, Her Friends Baked Christmas Cookies With Me. I’ve Never Forgotten It. Talking about my mom was not an option. I didn’t understand until later that there are other ways of communicating.

So true, so true.

One of the grief myths from my book, Healthy Healing.

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After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth…
And you learn and learn…
With every good-bye you learn.

- Veronica A. Shoffstall

The Death Of My Mom Feels Like Both Yesterday And Forever Ago At The Same Time - Healing Through Grief With Christie Lynn There are details about the day that she died that will forever be engraved in my mind.

Some events that may help you manage your grief this Mothers' Day.

https://letsreimagine.org/worldwide/schedule?refinementList%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D=Motherless%20Mother%E2%80%99s%20Day

Reimagine: Life, Loss, & Love Schedule Reimagine sparks community-driven festivals that explore death and celebrate life through art, healthcare, spirituality, and innovation.

Free call on Sunday with Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters, and Clair Bidwell Smith, co-founder of Motherless Daughters Retreats.

HARD THINGS LIVE EVENT — Motherless Daughters

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Woman turns old clothes of lost loved ones into memory bears so people can preserve memories The 21-year-old artist turns the old clothes of her clients' loved ones into adorable teddy bears they can cherish forever.

To Those Who Struggle This Christmas I’m not writing this to everyone. I’m writing this to you—the person whose heart is heavy today, the one for whom this day is not merry and bright, the one who doesn’t feel at all like singing. I’m writing this to you who face subtraction today; who feel the combined attrition of the all l...

Grieving The Missing Christmas Presence Baby, all I want for Christmas is you. When grief visits you, the holidays change. Your wish list becomes incredibly small. Your priorities crystalize down to the essential, elemental things. Suddenly gone are the extraneous, superfluous wants and aspirations. You only desire one present now: presen...

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No one wanted to talk about her mother’s death. So she wrote a play about it. ’140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother’ proves a 34-year-old woman can still get to know her mother, even if she’s gone

On millennial grief: ‘I didn’t want to be brave. I just wanted my mum back’ Before she died, my mother asked me to find a support group – but there were none for twentysomethings like me. Could I start my own?

Stephen Colbert on overcoming grief and loss as a child - CNN Video In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, late-night host and comedian Stephen Colbert discussed losing his father and brothers at a young age and how his family dealt with the devastating loss.

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I want you to think about someone you love more than life itself. Maybe it’s a child, a parent, a spouse or a sibling. Imagine them happy, healthy, full of life, loving themselves completely and unconditionally. Their joy brings you joy, after all, you love them so much you wouldn’t want anything but the very best for them. You’d want them to live as long as possible in the healthiest most active body conceivable right?

Guess what?

They feel the exact same way about you.
Don’t make those people your excuses as to why you can’t live your best life...make them your reason why you must.

So today, take an hour to workout, eat healthy, maybe go for a quiet walk and practice deep breathing or meditate. All of those activities give the people you love the very best version of you.
It’s not selfish, it’s self-love.

Good morning world,

Michelle 💙🙏

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Grateful for Toni Morrison giving grief a voice. Thank you.

What Milestones Are Like When You Lose A Parent At A Young Age Your feelings about success and achievement likely change.

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Twenty-Something Mother Loss: Free 30-Minute Conference Call on July 27, 2019. Twenty-Something Mother Loss: Join Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters, and Allison Gilbert author of Passed and Present, on July 27th to learn more about mother loss in your 20s (but you don't have to be in your 20s now!). In September 2019, Motherless Daughters Retreats will offer a retre...

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Simple things to say and not say to someone who is grieving. And sometimes you don't need to say much of anything - just listen.

What to Say (and What Not to Say) to Someone Who’s Grieving A little empathy goes a long way, especially when someone is recovering from the loss of a loved one. Unfortunately, even when some of us mean well, we make the situation worse. Here’s how to avoid it.

Lady Gaga is Setting up Mental Health First Aid Training Programs for High Schoolers Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation is setting up mental health first aid training programs in high schools across America.

Motherless Daughters Retreats The readers of Motherless Daughters have made this book a treasured resource and gift for women for 25 years. To help us celebrate, please join us at a high tea in Boston on May 11th — the Saturday before Mother’s Day — to gather and honor mothers no longer living. The tradition that started...

The Grieving Need You Most After the Funeral My father died suddenly while on vacation three years ago. The event rattled the bedrock of my life in ways that are difficult to describe, and taught me lessons I couldn’t have learned any other way. One of the truths I discovered, is that when you lose someone you love—people show up. Almost i...

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