Tag: Anniversaries

(For a more comprehensive look at my journey in 2018, see my blog post The Weight of What Happened)

Hey, five-years-ago-me,

It’s springtime again, the season of memories again, flowers blooming and sun warming and PTSD knocking again.

Like every year since, I wouldn’t need a calendar to know what time of year it is. This body of ours still reminds me, feeling the memories without even trigger, breath spontaneously shallow, thoughts swirling with potential catastrophes.

I am so … continue reading

Words of Life for the Grief of Death

February 4, 2021

Emily Hart

There’s just something about loss anniversaries that’s inexplicably hard. And it’s grief, yes, but it’s something more than that, something about being in the same spot of the cosmos that you were when things happened. There’s a heavy darkness that comes, that you know isn’t just the sadness in your heart but it’s the wound in your spirit being pressed.

A couple Sundays ago, it was the anniversary of when we took the first pregnancy test that would end … continue reading

Dear Five-Years-Ago Me

Words of Life for the Grief of Death

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