September 2009 Blog Posts (11)

tears not acceptance

I find myself focusing very hard on stemming the random flow of tears these days; not out of any sense of crying as weakness or a need to put up any kind of front of strength. I am perfectly comfortable feeling weak and giving in to said weakness, either while I'm alone or surrounded by any number of relative strangers.



Ask anyone who knows me, they'll tell you that I am capable of bursting into tears while describing an especially moving long distance commercial.



These… Continue

Added by jenn murphy on September 28, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Let me be sad

Let me be sad,
Don't try to change the subject,

Comfort would be nice,
but don't try to change the subject.

My tears are warm and soothing and healing.
What a relief! it is to cry
without judgement or intervening

but some comfort, from a world that ignores sadness and suffering,
would be really nice.

Added by Kate on September 26, 2009 at 10:59am — 1 Comment

newbie

Hi all, I'm a newbie to this group

I lost my dad in january this year, then my great Aunt and then my stepdad all in the space of a few weeks.

I'm still working my way through all sorts of emotions.

Anxiety, stress, lonliness, depression, anger - wow I've never expressed my anger until now, I've started punching my bed and beating up cardboard boxes.

Lots of past issues are rearing their heads - I've realised my relationship with my mother is no where near what I was telling… Continue

Added by Kate on September 23, 2009 at 10:31pm — 1 Comment

Still can't believe she is gone

Today as i drove home i repeated the phrase my sister is dead my sister is dead. I still can't belive that i will never see her again on Earth, that i will never every get to talk to her again on Earth. i don't understand how to not miss her. i need her! i really do not have any one to talk to my husband does not understand and my mom and dad are griving too. my best frined is gone/dead. who can i call and tell all my dumb stuff to? you will listen or what to listen? i am lost and i need to… Continue

Added by Jason Morgan on September 22, 2009 at 8:41pm — No Comments

the greatest loss of my life

i hope i can find some hope to go on with others who have also loved there bueatiful sons and dauthers. i dont kow how to use this computer at all it was given me for this reason so i could talk to othrs like me i hope it works with you all it takes me a long time to type and sometimes i lose the pages i am trying so please help to not lose me if you can i really need to talk about my son about his name nathan about his wonderful sense of humor he could always make me laugh even when i was mad… Continue

Added by jackie steinbock on September 21, 2009 at 4:50pm — 3 Comments

63 days

Yesterday marked two months, or more precisely, 63 days since my mother passed. Where am I now?



While logic has never played a huge role in my life; I've never really grasped the need for it, it seems so complicated, so unnecessary; I have always enjoyed analyzing and attempting to quantify my emotional state.



Yes, I am a weirdo. Let me state for the record that I am completely comfortable with and in fact not a little proud of that.



So, in the spirit of… Continue

Added by jenn murphy on September 15, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

annoying things people say..

i know there is one of these in the i miss my son or daughter forum but i wanted to write a few that have really p****d me off



The worst is the people who say it will be hard but you will get over it eventually

- no, you dont "get over it" you learn to live with it a little. i dont even want to get over it.



Some people have said "at least he didn't have to grow old"

- What? Because that's a bad thing?



the past tense.

- it annoys me how easily… Continue

Added by Benny Shipton on September 14, 2009 at 11:08am — 7 Comments

Personal Statements from 9/11 Survivors, Families, First Responders

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Donna Marsh O’Connor, Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer



As the world moves further and further away from the actual events of 9/11/2001 both in time and spirit, and as 9/11 effaces into yet another simple story cast in history, as the parent of Vanessa Lang Langer lost as the towers fell, I want to let it go. I want to stop talking about… Continue

Added by Diana, Grief Recovery Coach on September 12, 2009 at 9:27pm — 4 Comments

September is childhood cancer awareness month

wear a Gold ribbon on the 12th of September in Honor of all the kids that are fighting cancer and for those that have lost their battle "Leukaemia Sux!" missing Jacob

Added by Jacob Michael scott McLeod-Steinmetz on September 2, 2009 at 11:54pm — No Comments

This is the poem that was in my dads funeral program it brings to me to tears of joy and sadness

God looked around his garden

and found an empty place,

he then looked down upon the

earth and saw your tired face.



He put his arms around you and

lifted you to rest,

God's garden must be beautiful,

He always takes the best.



He knew you were suffering,

He knew you were in pain.

He knew that you would never

get well on earth again.



He saw the road was getting rough,

and the hills wer hard to climb,

so he… Continue

Added by Tiffany Jacobsen on September 2, 2009 at 10:23pm — 2 Comments

To Those Whom I Love & Those Who Love Me

When i am gone,release me,let me go.I have so many things to see & do.You must not tie yourself to me with tears.Be happy that i have had so many years.I gave you my love,you can only guess how much you gave me in happiness.I thank you for the love each have shown,but now it is time i traveled on alone.So grieve a while for me,if grieve you must.Then let your grief comforted by trust it is only for a while that we must part so bless the memories in your heart.I will not be far away,for life… Continue

Added by sue richardson on September 2, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

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