Episode 19: Caleb’s Mom

Today, as I publish this episode, Chrisy’s beloved son, Caleb, has been gone for 150 days, having died by suicide last year on August 12th. Undoubtedly, these has been the longest, worst days of Crissy’s life, of her whole family’s life. I didn’t...

Episode 18: Andy’s Dad – A New Year

‘Happy New Year’ is a phrase that has been said a lot over the past day and a half all over the world. I used to throw that phrase around, too, along with ‘Happy Holidays’ and ‘Merry Christmas.’ Nowadays, I don’t say those...

Episode 17: Messages of Hope

To be honest, last Tuesday when I was scheduled to meet with other grieving mothers to record this episode, I was not feeling very hopeful at all. As I share in the episode, the days prior to this had been filled with many tears. Although I had tried to do my best to...

Episode 16: Grief Reiki

Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of the term, reiki. I noticed that I was being followed by a woman on Twitter, @GriefReiki. I began following her back and noticed that she and I would often post things that were very similar. She would retweet something and I...

Costco

This evening, Eric and I were on our way home from Kathryn’s robotics competition, and Eric told me that we needed to stop at Costco to buy a big box of Bisquick. He had promised Peter that he would make waffles in the morning. He suggested that we split up and...