Article taken from Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-e-steinke/stifled-grief-how-the-wes_b_10243026.html

Hello All: I found this interesting book on Thomas Jefferson on his own personal tragic loss. 

He suffered 3 child losses and the death of his wife who passed at 33. He never remarried.

Here is a write up on it:

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My Thomas

Thomas Jefferson lived a great American love story. He was a Burgess of 27 when he met Martha Wayles Skelton, a 22-year-old widowed heiress who was fondly called Patty by her family. They…

Today was one of the final court hearings for my son's death in 2012. An inattentive driver, with a long history of drug use and violence ran him over. The DA suspected she did not want to stop and try to beat him across. She killed him while he was driving fully in his own lane...she ran him over in her attempt to make a hasty left turn. She had no insurance, third time cited for this despite it being mandatory in our state. Cops that showed up on the scene were too dumb to give her a full…

I am posting a link to a book I found that very much resonates with my soul. It is a pretty sizable preview and the author, Alan, offers compassionate support and wisdom from counseling with many bereaved.…

Link from Article http://www.indianapolismonthly.com/longform/dear-kate-living-with-grief/

Article written by a mom who lost her daughter. Very well written and honest.

Dear Kate:…

Hello all...

I just found out this afternoon a dear friend has colon cancer. She was the one who went me to the hospital when my son, Jesse transitioned in Oct of 2012.

She and her husband own a company that I was just added as an employee about two weeks ago...she wants me to manage the office tomorrow. So I will wing it I guess.

Her surgery is tomorrow evening, at 6 pm. Warm thoughts and prayers welcomed. Her name is Kim. Thank you all in advance.

Today for my Sunday afternoon outing I went to a graveyard. It must of the been the common thought as many were there, putting Christmas wreaths on their loved ones resting place and other momentos of love.

I drove past two of the grave sites of young people who passed in our small community, a young woman, K,  born 1985 and a young man, B, of 1986. (They died within a year of each other). Both have beautiful markers, with care and love carved on them. The young man even has a mail…

Another bereaved member of my forum found this article on Presidents who lost children. It is from the New York Times:

Retrieved October 23, 2015 from the New York Times

Parental Grief Has Often Been a Factor in Presidential Politics

Another word press blog

http://deeincollingo.com/

These are my confessions or should I clarify by admitting the only confessions I am willing to share.  These confessions will not be pretty or inspiring so if you have stumbled upon this post looking for hope, you may be wise to stop here.

There has not been one life lesson on the other side of Devastation Day which I personally wanted to learn.  The sudden death of my child has not…

Thought I would share this blog post from a Word Press site:

 https://workinggrief.wordpress.com/

The last several days have been hard, harder than the months before.  I don’t know why.  I just know that my mind is racing constantly with what should be, what I want to be, and with overwhelming pain.   When I realized that in a couple of months it will be 2 years since Melinda’s death, I nearly lost my mind.   How is that fucking…

This is an excerpt from a book another bereaved mom read early on, she had recommended it to our group...it was by a grief therapist of many years who had workshops for grief release..here is a bit of his (Francis Weller) book:

It is our unexpressed sorrows, the congested stories of loss that, when left unattended, block our access to the soul. To be able to freely move in and out of the soul’s inner chambers, we…