Grief is so competitive. When I first started doing this work and started to share my own losses the people with ‘bigger’ tragedies than mine would send me a lot…
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I wish I personally knew you. I wish we could take our dogs for a walk together. I wish I was there when your loss took place and listened to…
I might not have witnessed the most tragic losses of our time but I have been a witness to thousands of mourners and I come away with one truth. We…
“Mommy, what’s wrong?” “Did something happen today?” My daughter Isabel said as she stepped into the car on our way home from her school. “No honey, I just had a…
When I woke in my bed in the dark I had a knowing that there will be many dark nights ahead. Nights dark beyond black. Nights dark beyond the deepest…
I first met her after my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Her first words were… you should have been the one dying. It would have been easier….
Last night I sat in a room full of women who lost their beloved husbands. Well I wasn’t really sitting with them but I was on a big screen via…
In a few days Second Firsts will be 5 years old. I vividly remember the night I came up with the name. It was 2:00am. I was crying. I was…
“You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.” I wrote one day in the midst of writing my book 3 years ago. I was remembering who…
