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Little Hugs For The Heart
In recent weeks, I have created a set of 12 wallet-sized cards, each with a verse I have written relating to grief and especially the grief of pregnancy loss. I am excited to announce that Little Hugs For The Heart will be included as a gift with EVERY order received through my two websites: From…
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Excerpts – From One Twin Mum To Another
Including from the Preface, Introduction and Chapter One – by Julie Ann Bryant. To continue reading, click here to purchase From One Twin Mum To Another which is readily available in either paperback or ebook format.
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Pregnancy loss is traumatic…
Pregnancy loss is a traumatic experience. Have you ever tried to tell your own story but felt lost for words? Have you felt overwhelmed by the sadness you hold inside? My Baby, My Grief, My Love is a pregnancy loss journal. It is a book designed to help you tell your story. It helps explain…
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New book: My Baby, My Grief, My Love
Exciting news! My second book is now published and is becoming widely available online. My Baby, My Grief, My Love is designed with writing prompts which explore grief as it relates to pregnancy loss. As a pregnancy loss journal, it will help the reader tell their own story of love and loss in their own…
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My new book will soon be available
My Baby, My Grief, My Love: A pregnancy loss journal I am excited to announce that my second book will soon be published. This new book has been written for parents grieving the heart-breaking experience of pregnancy loss and it provides them with an opportunity to write their own story in their own words. All…
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Where Does The Time Go?
Can you believe that it is already November? It seems to me that the older you get, the faster time flies by. Week-by-week I have been writing little bits for these blogs. Writing has always been my thing, the way I creatively express myself. It started in my teens, writing poetry and then, in my…
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International Wave of Light
Every year on 15th October at 7pm I light a candle in memory of Meggie, our other babies conceived and lost through the IVF process, together with all the other children known to us who have also grown their angel wings – too many to name individually, but each one precious, irreplaceable and so very…
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Just One Day At A Time
If there is one thing that my journey through grief has taught me, then that is the value of living life just one day at a time. Grief has taught me to appreciate just being in the moment and of viewing life and love and relationships and loss through very different eyes. Once upon a…
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Through Grieving Eyes
For today’s post, I am revisiting the topic of disenfranchised grief and of what grief looks like through grieving eyes when you feel unsupported. The word ‘disenfranchised’ underscores much of what I say when I talk specifically about multiple birth bereavement, so this is a good opportunity to explain it more here. Very closely aligned…
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Grief Is An Expression Of Our Love
I think the greatest myth, when it comes to grief, is that time heals all things. It does not. Grief is a process that we have to work our way through. We have to engage ourselves in that process, expressing our grief in a way that is natural and congruent to how we feel. This…
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Our Little Angel In A Fur-Coat
Lately I have been reminded of what a precious gift life is. Last weekend we farewelled a much-loved member of our family. Ginj joined our household as a tiny, mischievous and very endearing eight-week-old kitten. He grew up with our boys and was their affectionate, faithful and constant companion through the years. I would find…
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Gather Your Threads Together
There will always be those days when you feel like you’re hanging onto life by a thread. On those days, think of each loved one in your circle, and each friend who you love as ‘family’. On those days, gather all your threads together and you will see how strong your rope truly is. (c)…
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International Bereaved Mother’s Day
Did you know that the first Sunday of May – the week before the traditional Mother’s Day – is the International Bereaved Mother’s Day? This beautiful initiative was established in 2010 as a way of recognising the grief of women who have had a child die or who have been unable to realise their dream…
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Gratitude
Thank you for being the soft place to fall on those really hard days. Thank you for finding the words when it was really hard to know what to say. Thank you for those words – they helped comfort and calm me, and keep me focused on healing my broken heart. You may not realise…
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Love
It is an emotion, but it is also much more. It is unconditional, where ‘wrongs’ are made right. It is a commitment. It remains, no matter what. It should be how we define our relationships – in our words, actions, attitudes. It should comfort, reassure and soothe, and bring peace, healing and clarity, and warm…
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Creating Meaning Out Of Our Loss
Recently, Sydney-based former pro surfer Blake Johnson broke the Longest Surf Record of 31 hours at Cronulla Beach. With a new world record set, he returned to the ocean and continued to surf the waves for another 9 hours. On the final morning of this amazing effort by Blake, I watched an interview with his…
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An Interview With My Publisher
During the week my Busybird Publishing family posted this Q&A interview to their website blog and I thought it timely to share it here. I am always ever so grateful for the opportunity to talk about my book and to open up the conversations around pregnancy loss in general and twin loss in particular. I…
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A Special Love Called Grief
As I have been pondering what to write for today, I keep coming back to the thought of how life-changing and lifelong the experience of grief can be. I don’t think it is any exaggeration to say that grief is one of the most difficult circumstances to find ourselves in – of experiencing a profound…
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Grief and Trauma
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between grief and trauma, and of the ways in which they impact our day-to-day functioning. I have noticed through the years that trauma – or more specifically PTSD – has become almost commonplace in our every day language. However, it always takes me aback when…
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Happy New Year!
I’ve never been one for making new years resolutions. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I don’t like to set myself up for failure if I can help it. What I do love, though, is the thought of a new year ahead – a clean slate, a blank canvas – just waiting to be…
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Once Again The Holiday Season Is Nearly Upon Us
The vibrant colours of these grevillea flowers, adorned with raindrops glistening in the sunshine like jewels, caught my eye. Maybe it’s just me, but I think they look a little Christmassy. Speaking of Christmas, it is fast approaching “that” time of the year again. In the time since our loss, Christmas is the one family-oriented…
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Grief and the Passage of Time
Here we are in November already and whilst it has been an incredibly busy year, even so, I do wonder how we got here so quickly!! I guess it’s true that the older we get, the faster the time goes by. The concept of time fascinates me when it comes to grief. Sometimes when I…
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Baby Loss Awareness Week
This time of the year always has me thinking about my life and considering what my self-care may look like for the year ahead. I always feel this way through October. Maybe it is because I am an October baby myself and with each passing year, I am aware of how fleeting our time on…
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Understanding Grief
As my writings are, for the most part, in the genre of bereavement/grief, I thought for today’s post it would be good to nut out a few commonly used terms about grief. They may sound the same, however, they are actually distinct from each other. Bereavement: Bereavement relates to our state of being as the…