“I thought by now my life would be normal again, I would be healed, everything would be okay… but that’s just not how grief works.”
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“I thought by now my life would be normal again, I would be healed, everything would be okay… but that’s just not how grief works.”
“The walls came crashing down and it felt there was no way out. I was in this dark place, but then I remembered the many children I looked after with complex special needs.”
“Each obituary that resembles a loss like ours ignites the memory of my daughter’s last moments on this earth as she played a mental game of ping pong, wondering if she had any more will left in her to stay.”
“Stop letting your emotions lie to you. You are in control of your mind. Your mind isn’t in control of you.”
“We beat ourselves up immensely for the smallest details our children aren’t even upset about, and yet it’s a never-ending cycle.”
“Finding my birth family made me feel complete and whole because I now have answers to questions I had about myself as a little girl.”
“I was so sick of having epilepsy run my life, that within .5 seconds of my epileptologist asking me if I was up for brain surgery, I didn’t even blink and told him, ‘YES!!!’”
“My joints are wonky, my nerves are broken, and my heart beats like I’m running a marathon when I stand up from the couch, but I now have the words to explain the experiences I’ve been having.”
“I have learned to lean into the struggle and really feel it. This is my reality, and fast, easy answers teach me nothing.”
“Today, I lost it. I could feel my nerves fraying at the seams as my toddler refused to listen to anything I said. And in true me fashion, I cried. I lost my patience. I slammed cabinets and scraped plates filled with uneaten dinner. I took away privileges and declared mommy law. The mental load of motherhood broke me. Finito. Buh-bye. GONE.”