Finding My New Normal | The Grief Toolbox

They tell me, I must learn to live a new normal

But I’m not sure that I know how

There is nothing about my life that is normal

Not yesterday…not now.

Each morning I wake crying

Feeling totally down and blue

Is this the new normal they are talking?

Is this my lifetime New?

I try to go on living

I try to hide the pain

This new normal is not working

How can they say these things?

Each day I miss my baby more

With every single breath

There is nothing normal about this pain

Or the memories of his death

A new normal I can understand

It does make sense to me

But learning to live a new normal

Is not done so easily

Please tell me how to do this thing

Place a new normal in my life

I need to learn how right now

To be a good mother and a good wife

I will take each day as it comes

One day at a time

And when my new normal finds me

I pray my normal will feel like mine

~Renee Hogan Blythe - 2013

About the Author

Pamela Renee Blythe was born in a small town in Searcy, Arkansas in 1956. Her son, Kristopher Glen Hardrick, was born on December 15, 1977 and died from natural cause on June 3, 2008. At that moment, her world changed forever. Despite several unsuccessful marriages, she was a single parent in every way that counts…emotionally and financially. She never dreamed, at the age of 52 that she would wake up one morning in their home in Virginia Beach, Virginia and find her baby dead at the age of 30. But it happened. She has been traveling the long road of grief for over five years now and would like to share the feelings, defeats, changes and accomplishments that she has endured. She hopes that some of the people who read her book get answers and others get hope that someday things will get easier during their journey of grief.

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