
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on a rope.” Bill Cosby
Unless you are hiking...
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11 Jun 2013
Conversation with Tom
Episode 6
Glen Lord – The Grief Toolbox
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Lately, it seems as though every time I turn around I'm bombarded with some reference to signs. Specifically, signs that we believe come from loved ones who have passed.
The death of someone we love is a most profound, heart wrenching experience filled with complex emotions. The immediate pain makes the world around us dark and most often the...
CommentsWalkaways....2002
No big differences these days
Just the same old walkaways
And someday
I’m gonna stay
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“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on a rope.” Bill Cosby
Unless you are hiking...
I have been told that one thing that would help me is to get out and volunteer. I've thought about it, but I know I am not ready yet. Losing Ray has been so very hard. He was my strength when I was down. You see, when I met Ray, I had very little trust in men. In fact, I was scared to death of being alone with a man....
CommentsIt has become like breathing...
Sometimes I wonder why I am not thinking about Alicia more frequently or feeling the intense pain of grief more often…And then I realize, I am.
I am thinking about her and feeling the pain of grief all day, every day. I don’t always notice it on a conscious level--much like breathing. It has become so much a...
It was 17 weeks ago today I lost you, Ray. Today, the loss of our physical contact hit me hard. I remember how I could always come up and hug you for no special reason, just because I love you was reason enough. That loss of contact is hitting me hard. I woke up sobbing last night from the pain. Does this pain ever ease? I feel each day that a little more of me...
CommentsFirst – adj. Preceding all others in time.
Final – adj. Coming at the end. Being the last in a series.
One of the pearls of wisdom that gets passed along to the grief stricken is that the firsts are always the hardest. Unfortunately, David and I learnt what this meant in the months following Mack’s death in July 2006. We experienced an overdose of...
CommentsMy mother has been gone from life for what seems like eternity, however, some days it seems like I saw her beautiful face, smelled her Vanilla perfume in her hug, and patted her long black hair just yesterday.
It has been nearly sixteen months since she took her last breath. My mother, Carol, was a first grade teacher who loved her students as she loved my brother and I. The part she...
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