by Kathy on October 17, 2018 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Cancer, Coping, Courage, Fear, Game Changers, Grief, Healing, Inspiration, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Pain, Podcasts, Relationships, Therapy, Writing
“Creation for me is the antidote to despair.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert I follow Elizabeth “Liz” Gilbert on Instagram and saw her post this morning about a new podcast, The Ted Interview, for which she was the first guest. Though I haven’t seen a ton of Ted Talks, I get so much out of them when I take the […]
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by Kathy on October 15, 2018 · 0 comments
in Babies Benson, Bereavement, Blessed, Change, Coping, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Miscarriage, Molly, October 15, Pain, Parenting, Peace, Pregnancy Loss, Relationships, Sadness, Siblings, The Past, Time
I came across this quote today from Laura Kelly Fanucci, a fellow bereaved mom, via a friend/dad who is grieving and remembering (after the recent death of his baby) on this, October 15th, National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. These words struck and ring true for me, almost 14 years since we experienced our first of […]
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by Kathy on September 10, 2018 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Blessed, Blogging, Communication, Coping, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Pain, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Sensativity, Suicide Prevention, Writing
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fourteenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been well over a year since we last did some Gatekeeping here. In recent years I’ve been surprised by how much […]
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by Kathy on September 4, 2018 · 4 comments
in Background, Before I Blogged, Blogging, Coping, Friends, Journey, Life, London Semester Journals, Loss, Memories, Pain, The Past, Time, Transitions, Writing
Before I blogged, I was an avid, albeit inconsistent, journaler. I started young, the oldest one I can find I bought from a Scholastic Book Fair in early elementary school. I continued off and on through grade school, college, grad school and young adulthood, until I began writing and sharing here, on my blog, in […]
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by Kathy on August 30, 2018 · 0 comments
in Abby, Anxiety, Babies Benson, Background, Birthdays, Blessed, Change, Coping, Gratitude, Infertility, Journey, Life, Listening, Loss, Memories, Miscarriage, Music, Pregnancy, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Secondary Infertility, Signs, Time, Transitions
I remember how he used to tease me for bringing my binder, with colored coded spreadsheets, to track our relatively routine pregnancy with Sean in 2003. And then he was the doctor on call during our scheduled induction, which ended up being an augmentation, when I went into natural labor earlier that day (10 days […]
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by Kathy on August 23, 2018 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Background, Balance, Bereavement, Coping, Faith, Friends, Grace, Grief, Hope, Life, Listening, Loss, Love, Memories, Music, Odds, Relationships, Signs
For the longest time I didn’t understand what people meant, when they said that God would speak to them. I thought they literally heard a voice saying what direction to take in life, when they were struggling with an important decision or situation. In the spring of 1996 (my junior year of college), while traveling […]
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