Life After Charlie - A Grief Journey

When I was a pre-teen, I was bullied by my former friends. Girls don’t bully by physically assaulting you. They use psychological...

I just found this unpublished piece from October 2021… Every day I wake up and my daughter isn’t here. Gratitude pops in to remind me...

It's August now. Another summer is quickly passing us by. For me, every day is another step toward being okay again. But I won't lie:...

It dawns on me that little has changed. I remember like it was yesterday waking up on the 2nd of December 2021 to the nightmarish...

I have written before about losing the will to live, and how it’s not the same as having the will to die. It’s just, as it sounds, that...

Warning: This post is about Charlie’s suicide and may be triggering for some. For me, it’s a story I have yet to share with anyone but my...

Reminders of Charlie are everywhere. Such is the nature of life with smartphones that there is no shortage of photos of our family over...

It’s breathtakingly beautiful outside. Reds, oranges, golds and greens framed by a cloudless blue sky. I pause to reflect on how...

Some jerk decided to create “Grief Awareness Day” and apparently today was it. Well, let me tell you, for anyone living through...

“FUCK HER! FUCK YOU! FUCK HER” I hear my sister shriek in the most skin crawlingly, ear piercingly agonizing voice. “What the heck is she...

Anyone who loses someone close to them has to find a way to live with and through their grief. Part of me at times has wished my memories...

Life only ever gives you as much as you can handle. What a load of bollocks. Apparently this frequently repeated saying actually stems...