Bereavement

Novembering

by Kathy on November 2, 2011 · 5 comments

in Bereavement, Faith, Grief, Healing, Loss, Love, Memories, NaBloPoMo

Today is the second of two important days in my church community and the worldwide Catholic church. Yesterday was All Saints Day (always celebrated on November 1) and today is All Souls Day (always observed on November 2). I don’t make it to mass every year on these two Holy Days, but I usually at least try to take […]

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I’ve been taking you for over nine years now. You have been hope in a bottle for me. Every time I would swallow one I would imagine that those extra nutrients were helping to make my body more ready and able to conceive and sustain a pregnancy. During my pregnancies and the times I was […]

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On this Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day I send healing thoughts and prayers to all those who have lost babies.  As I shared in this recent post about song lyrics, I know that music plays a significant role in so many of our lives. During happy moments and milestones we celebrate good times by listening to, singing along with […]

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I am incredibly honored that for the first time one of my posts was chosen for syndication on BlogHer. Today it went live in the Blogging and Social Media section. It is a post that I am very proud of and it means a lot to me that it will gain a wider audience being syndicated on BlogHer. […]

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I am not sure how I didn’t know about or come across this website before today. I have been aware of Carly Marie’s breathtaking Names in the Sand ministry, in honor and memory of her son Christian, since soon after she began it 2008. It meant the world to me when Carly wrote our daughter Molly’s name in the […]

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One of my cousins, who is a psychologist, recently sent me an email with the link to an ABC News article that she had received from the American Psychological Association (APA). The article was about a study that was done looking at the increased health risks to parents who have survived the death of one or more of […]

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