To learn to be a better writer, I have a book of writing prompts. I asked Colin to open it and give me a random one tonight, and he opened the page to “my favorite recipe”. So, here’s what came out of my soul this evening 🙂 My favorite recipe lives in a box on a shelf. The box is…
It’s no secret that my life has been pretty full of grief lately. I’ve lost my mom, my health, and my first child within the last three years. Despite all of that, I find joy in life. I get up and go to work, I hang out with friends, I smile and laugh daily, and overall, I live with love. Yes, of…
It’s been hard for me lately to write. *Gasp* I know, it’s hard to believe because of how much I was writing in my early months of grief! I just had so much to say at that time – so many feelings to talk about and get off my chest. I still have a lot of complicated grief feelings, but…
I’ve been published on Still Standing Magazine for the first time! I’m so excited and humbled to be among such great writers, telling their stories of grief, loss, love, hope, and life. My first post is about our future selves, and how I’m dealing with the sudden change in the way I see my ideal future self. “I’ve been so…
Sometimes, I wonder why I’m writing on this blog about Jonah and life after loss. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to just keep all of my deepest, most private of thoughts and feelings to myself, my husband and my therapist? The answer, of course, is yes. It would be much easier. I would still write, but it would be…
Self-care…what is it, exactly? Obviously, self-care would mean caring for yourself, but how exactly do you do that when your heart is shattered and you can barely think or feel? Then after the shock fades and the depression sets in, what now? It’s possible that you just don’t feel like doing anything at all but staring into space. I’ve been…
I love my journal. I keep it with me all the time, and I attempt to write at least a sentence in it every day. I also love writing here on my Letters to Jonah blog, but the experience of sitting quietly with paper and a pen is just completely different. It can be done outside on a bench,…
