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Pain and Suffering
Trigger Warning (TW): Suicide For weeks and weeks after Tim passed, I would put my shoes on, put Sadie on her leash and walk past the...

Kristy C
Apr 24, 20244 min read


Death Changed Me
Death changes people, all kinds of death and all kinds of people. Changed, forever. I am learning that widows are a different breed....

Kristy C
Apr 11, 20243 min read


We never truly know what someone is going through
Disclaimer, I will be talking about suicide, I will be talking about bi-polar disorder, I will be talking about mania and survivors of...

Kristy C
Jan 24, 20247 min read


Smiling through it
I saw a quote the other day that said, ‘I smile to stop myself from crying’ and I felt that. Following that I saw one that said, ‘You...

Kristy C
Jan 14, 20242 min read


I can’t believe it’s been five months
These last five months have felt like the longest five months of my life but at the same time feels like just yesterday. It feels like...

Kristy
Nov 26, 20234 min read


Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
This year Survivors of Suicide Loss Day happens to fall on my birthday, November 18th. How appropriate, right? At first, I was I was...

Kristy
Nov 14, 20232 min read


YOU Matter
As most of you know by now I'm very passionate about Mental Health Advocacy and trying to break the cycle of mental health being taboo...

Kristy
Nov 8, 20232 min read


Survivor's Grief
This is where I am and this is where I am stuck. For some reason I can’t move passed this and today I googled how long does it take to...

Kristy
Oct 31, 20237 min read


Guilt and Grief
Guilt: Feeling responsible or regretful for a perceived offense, real or imaginary. Survivors Guilt: A person may experience survivor's...

Kristy
Oct 13, 20235 min read


Learning to live again...
93 days… 93 days without the love of my life. Today marks three months that you left this earth and it feels like just yesterday when my...

Kristy
Sep 26, 20234 min read


Grief is Hard
Losing anyone is hard. I've experienced a lot of loss in my life; family, friends, co-workers, pets, etc. but nothing has ever compared...

Kristy
Sep 14, 20234 min read


Underneath it all...
A sweet friend of mine posted something the other day that hit me to the core. She has recently come out on the upside of battling stage...

Kristy
Sep 5, 20233 min read


You Can Do Hard Things...
Often in the last six years or so I would constantly tell myself “you can do hard things”. I would tell Tim this on occasion too when he...

Kristy
Aug 6, 20235 min read


Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
Whenever Charlie Brown said this, it was his way of saying ‘bummer’. If you don't know who Charlie Brown is, we will save that for...

Kristy
Jul 21, 20234 min read


HOME TEAM BABY!
Tim and I had this saying whenever things got tough, HOMETEAM! It was our little reminder to each other that when things got hard or we...

Kristy
Jul 6, 20239 min read
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