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Pity

While living with me the year before he died

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peace

Peace is elusive when we love someone struggling

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impact

My son, Adam, would have turned thirty-one today.

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sad self-care

When I name my ‘sad’ feeling with more precision, it helps me understand

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dreams

It was one of those dreams that happen in the morning

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the empty chair

Of course we will all experience loss. Family dynamics

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reverse

He was unexpectedly born very sick

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forgiveness

There are certain things in the past I would

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things

What do you do with

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inner peace

Peace did not become personal

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holidays & loss

Holidays were beyond

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a list

Over the years I’ve been asked how I’ve managed

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love.

One of the greatest lessons

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sand dollar

Crouched by the surf before sunrise

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comforting a grieving mother

She wrapped a warm, pale blue cotton blanket

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crisis

Looking more deeply

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Expressing the pain of loss

It reminds me how we each process loss

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balancing painful experiences

Allowing myself to feel my painful feelings for a set time and then

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practicing self-compassion

It felt so foreign, that first time

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when you feel out of options

You’ve wracked your brains and cannot seem

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