I am looking for a word, or couple of words, that describes the experience when you see someone that reminds you of someone you love that is dead. That feeling of the sudden rush of remembering, astonishment, irrational hope, the wave of relief, the impulse to run after them and take them in your arms, even while a tiny voice in your brain is ( Read more... )

and started talking with people about it. It's now rapidly snowballing and turning into the first foundations of a 3 day Festival here in the North Coast, dedicated to finding a healthy and meaningful culture of grief, mourning and embracing death in our local area, rather than the western 'don't think about it and it won't happen to you' method of ( Read more... )

http://www.fastforword.com.au/Content_Common/pg-The-Brain-That-Changes-Itself-Sydney-August-24-2010.seoRead more... )

We are thinking about moving back towards the city, having more of the family living with us again, being able more easily see friends, go places, do courses and such ( Read more... )

http://www.derailingfordummies.com/

heh heh heh...

Burying one's own child is a bog of eternal pain that currently isn't going away. Am back in Brisbane, am at one friend's picking up my darling Indi, about to head off to another friend's for some much needed hugging. I am broken, drained and prone to bursting into tears with no provocation whatsoever. I cannot begin to understand what's happened. ( Read more... )

going to bury my beautiful eldest child.

See you when I surface on the planet again.

Love and hugs to everyone who has helped me get through till now- now comes the hardest part. Then comes missing her for the rest of my life.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/7386869/crash-wipes-out-couples-dream/

*crying ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31ecopsych-t.html

Wonderful, thought provoking and intuitive article.

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