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My 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...
CommentsAnother day, more tears.
I am alone and missing you.
I miss your smile.
I miss the comfort of your arms.
I miss the sound of your voice.
I find myself talking to you while watching TV.
I miss your teasing.
I miss your gentleness.
When I go anywhere, I talk to you in the car.
I talk to you at the stores.
I talk to...
CommentsMy mind says he's gone
My heart says no
Can't you feel his love?
Can't you feel his presence?
My mind says he's gone
My heart says no
Don't you remember the times you shared?
Don't you smile at the little things he did for you?
My mind says he's gone
My heart says no
You are strong because of his love he had for you
You are...
CommentsDo you remember when Julia Roberts, as the character Elizabeth Gilbert in the book/film “Eat, Pray, Love” said “I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises?” If you have seen the film, or read the book by Gilbert, you will recall that when her character choose happiness over suffering to make...
CommentsIt was 15 weeks ago today I lost the one and only love of my life. Sometimes the pain of the loss is so overwhelming and I feel as if I am drowning in a pain that I can't heal. I pray constantly for strength to get me through this loss.
Sleep evades me. I keep busy throughout the day but when night comes, the overwhelming loneliness hits me like a ton of bricks. ...
CommentsI use to think that after a person was gone that it was the end, that everything that was shared was no longer, not ever thinking that one day i'd be where I am right now. That's just it so often people think what they think never understanding that in the quickest of ways life gives you a strong lesson to the thoughts you once believed. It is those moments your taken away with no breath, with...
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They tell me, I must learn to live a new normal
But I’m not sure that I know how
There is nothing about...
CommentsI'm still recovering from Mother's Day even though it will be 4 years this June my mom's been gone. It's pretty internally torturous, to be quite honest, but I'm fully dedicated to moving through those crappy, difficult emotions. It's probably the hardest human thing we can do.
Thought it would all be over today, yet when I actually went through my own process of...
CommentsA Challenging Population
Chemically dependent individuals like the rest of us, experience grief. In my 27 years of employment in the chemical dependency field, many individuals that I counseled experienced grief due to the death of a family member or friend. Working with grief in...
CommentsWhile sorting through boxes and bags, it is not unusual for me to find something unexpected. It happened just the other day. Shifting through a box, I came across a wrinkled, somewhat yellowed piece of lined school paper. I carefully unfolded it only to find a drawing of a stick-Mom and stick-...
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