We're not promised tomorrow or next year or even 20 years from now with our children. We're only promised this moment.
I did not feel like a normal mother. I was happy with Liam but I was incredibly lonely. I could share that there had been a baby before Liam, but not in any mother's group or playtime was there the space for me to truly tell my story.
Kate Leong’s virtual circle is mourning with her today, as she prepares to bury her 5-year-old son. Leong has documented Gavin's life and battle wit...
The words we use to talk about cancer, in children and adults, influence how we think about cancer and those unlucky enough to be touched by it. Survivors are called "victorious" and "winners." Those who have not survived their cancer are called "angels" and "in a better place.
For me, life is still forever defined by The Before and The After, as I suspect it may be for the grieving families in Connecticut.
The person we lose cannot become a taboo subject. Holding in our pain is also holding in our memories and ultimately the joy that person brought us.
This is the third post of "30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days," a series designed to give a voice to people with widely varying experiences, including b...
I told the photographer about our situation. About missing someone from our family. She gave me an idea of how everyone could be in the picture together, even Joey and the new baby.
It feels wrong to speak of children in the past tense. Their lives are just unfolding, with so many years ahead. But the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last Friday stopped short the lives of 20 young children, erasing their future, breaking the natural order of birth and death.
As the tragic shooting in Newtown Friday has shifted national attention to the issue of gun control, the subject is nothing new for Charlie and Mary L...
Dealing with the death of a child is at the top of the list of traumatic and stressful things a person can deal with. Psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz told...
Holidays can be especially difficult for those who have lost a child. In order to keep your child's memory alive, psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz advised ...
We belong to a group of people that no one wants to belong to -- the parents of lost children -- and we were going to be the voice for their story, regardless of how difficult.
There's a point to having fun, which is that it should be part of the human experience. A big part. I'd just completely lost touch with that.
I am the mother of a child who died. And that makes Mother's Day very hard. Other days of the year you can pretend that you are an ordinary person and that life is normal. But not on Mother's Day.
I have heard countless people say "I cannot even imagine going through losing a child" -- and all I can say is "Don't, you don't have to."
Tom and Debbie had grieved their daughter's loss, of course. They had even tried to replace her--three times over. But the one thing they had never done was to celebrate her life.
Losing a parent is a life phase, something we're conditioned mentally and perhaps biologically to endure. Losing a child so reverses the pattern tha...
Watching a US senator and VP candidate reveal his fear before a national audience was quite a remarkable thing. In doing so, Biden provided some much-needed release for fathers.
