Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 16: RETREAT. After yesterday which is probably one of the most emotional days for our community, it is important to take time out to protect your own heart. If you are an active member in our community and belong to one or more support groups, caring for others as well as [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 25: MOTHER EARTH. We as a community love to do things in memory of our children. Today I wanted to do something to honour our children’s spirits and I wanted this to be something that helps our Mother Earth. Planting a tree is a meaningful way to remember our children. It [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 15: COMMUNITY. As a wave of light makes its way around the world today, we take some time out to honour and remember our children. It is a day of remembrance and a day of awareness. What does this community mean to you? Where would you be without it? What would you like [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 14: DARK/LIGHT. Today we are acknowledging the dark and the light sides of grief. The ugly and the beauty. The bitter and the sweet. The anger and the peace. You might want to write about the moments when everything falls apart or maybe the moments where our eyes are opened to [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 21: RELATIONSHIP. Recently I have been speaking with my friend and mentor, Nathalie Himmelrich who is the author of Grieving Parents – Surviving Loss as a Couple. We have spoken a lot about how grief affects our relationships. The relationships that we have with others and the relationship we have with grief. [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 13: SEASON. What season to you associate with your children? Is it the season that they died in? Or maybe another reason like a beautiful time you spent together. What emotions arise in you when that season comes around. What is it in that season that triggers memories and feelings for [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 20: BREATHE. Step outside today and find a spot to sit or lay down on the ground. Switch off for a few minutes. Stare into the clouds and sky and notice your surroundings. So often we as bereaved parents find ourselves feeling overwhelmed by our grief and we don’t notice it, [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 12: MUSIC. In grief we can resonate with music because it communicates the deep emotions we are feeling. Sometimes there are no words that accurately describe what we are experiencing and that is why I think I find myself so often lost in sounds and melodies. Share some music that [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 11: ALTAR. Do you have a space in your home specifically dedicated to your children? Creating a sacred space in your home for your children is a beautiful way to keep your their precious memory alive. You could make one indoors or outside. You may want to make your altar in [...]
Capture Your Grief Prompt: Day 10: SUPPORT. Have you felt supported in your grief journey? If so, where did that support come from. Was it from who you expected? Were you surprised by the support or lack of support you received. How would you suggest people could support those grieving, better? If you feel disappointed that [...]
