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Losing a child and wondering if you will you ever be okay again

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I was in no hurry to let go of my grief. It was what I had left of my daughter. By Mary Janevic

July 22, 2021 Parenting Challenges

I never grieved my miscarriage, and then the blender exploded

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I needed a kitchen coated in berry smoothie to finally understand what I couldn’t then. By Nicole Gulotta

June 28, 2021 Parenting Challenges

I dream what would happen if my two husbands met

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When Steve died, I found it hard to imagine ever finding love again. By Sarah Kilch Gaffney

June 15, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Finding a way to keep my mother’s memory alive in my garden

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In death as in life, she would be surrounded by nature’s bounty. By Megan Hanlon

May 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

What it means to be a food allergy mom

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What if you are the best mother you can be and it’s still not enough to save your child? What if one mistake is the fatal bite? By Lauren Weiss

July 23, 2020 Parenting Challenges

I lost my mother. This is how I know when she’s with me.

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It has to be a single leaf, floating through the sky by itself. Do you have a mom sign? By Kandace Chapple

April 27, 2020 Parenting Challenges

When lost loved ones are still with us at the holidays

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We pull ornaments from boxes labeled in my mother’s loopy cursive, giving our tree the same homespun look hers always had. By Mary Janevic

December 19, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Learning to make my mother’s holiday cookies again

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I ignored her recipe for many years as a way to avoid the loss. By Marcia Kester Doyle

December 12, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Helping my son grieve the loss of a friend

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How exactly could I break this news to a kid who already went to bed every night scared of death to the point of tears? By Tanya Mozias Slavin

October 10, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to find resilience after losing your mom

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Losing my mother, especially at a young age, was like losing my compass. By Gina Luongo

July 23, 2019 Parenting Challenges

The day I helped my mother pick out a wig

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My mom took off her scarf and revealed her bald head. We all braced ourselves, but the woman at the shop didn’t flinch. By Kandace Chapple

July 16, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to live happily when there are no happy endings

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On carrying grief forward, not getting over it. A Motherwell interview with Nora McInerny.

July 2, 2019 Books

Motherwell talks to bestselling author and therapist Lori Gottlieb

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So much of who we are has to do with how we think about our own parents and our own childhood.

June 19, 2019 Books, Culture

How to help kids with grief when an adult relationship ends

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I didn’t have my therapist hat on when my son went through his grief—I was just his mom, muddling through it alongside him. By Lori Gottlieb

June 19, 2019 Books, Parenting Challenges

I had a miscarriage. This is my story.

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If my belly was round and full of baby, would I hate my body less? This body that betrayed me. By Brittany Wren

December 3, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Can my 70-year-old mother find love after loss?

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It had been a long time since I’d heard her laugh. It felt like clouds parting. By Stewart Lewis

November 15, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Before and after my mother’s accident

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Time heals so much of what goes wrong in life, but the memory of what happened to Mum on that day still makes my body react. By Clover Stroud

November 12, 2018 Books

The little moments when we are hit by grief

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You will be in your slippers, making waffles, and suddenly remember that your mother is dead. By Brianne DeRosa

October 17, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Helping my mother clean out her closet, the year before she died

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After we gave it all to Goodwill, I lived in fear every day that I would see somebody else wearing my mom’s clothes. By Kandace Chapple

October 9, 2018 Parenting Challenges

My war against squirrels, bullets and grief

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Fourteen teenagers and three teachers are dead who were not dead a few of weeks ago, and my house is falling apart, and my children are at school. By Brianne DeRosa

March 6, 2018 Culture

What to expect when you are unexpecting

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Nobody will send flowers. You don’t even have a face to conjure when you think of this child. By Maggie Downs

February 28, 2018 Parenting Challenges

When three steps on the crosswalk saved my daughter’s life

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For what seems like a single frame of the video, I see my child silhouetted in the lights of the oncoming car. By Ian Smith

January 25, 2018 Parenting Challenges

In the moment of miscarriage

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I can’t imagine spreading my legs and letting doctors make quick work of this loss.
By Nicole Piasecki

January 12, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Winter is here, but my baby is not

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I’m postpartum. Without a newborn. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, my baby didn’t make it.
By Jenn Press Arata

December 6, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Parenting in the shadow of PTSD

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Both my children hate being around me and water—I’m the parent whose urgent, borderline hysteria ruins all the fun.
By Christie Tate

July 5, 2016 Parenting Challenges

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