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Holiday Grief Guide Part 3: Coping with Holiday Grief
Coping with grief in itself is overwhelming and then we go and throw the holiday season into it and it heightens that feeling in so many...

Kristy C
Nov 28, 20242 min read


Holdiay Grief: Survival Guide Part 2
Holiday grief can be heavy. It’s a whirlwind of emotions for the entire holiday season, and then some. It’s as if the holidays...

Kristy C
Nov 25, 20243 min read


How to Support Someone Grieving this Holiday Season
It can be hard to watch someone we love struggle so much, especially during the holiday season. A lot of times we just want to fix it for...

Kristy C
Nov 23, 20243 min read


Pain vs. Suffering
I’ve spent the last two weeks really deep diving into my grief, trying to figure out how to get out of this limbo stage of living in my...

Kristy C
Oct 26, 20244 min read


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


Intrusive Thoughts
Disclaimer: I will be talking about my experience with suicide and details about Tim’s death. If you find these to be hard topics, I...

Kristy C
Feb 6, 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


Survival Mode
This phrase can mean so many things. When I think about survival mode, I think about doing what we have to, in order to keep going....

Kristy C
Dec 27, 20234 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


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


Failed by the System: Part 2 Reflection
After I wrote my last blog about being failed by a specific “mental health” facility, I had so much anger in me. I am resentful towards...

Kristy
Aug 20, 20234 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
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