Thank you for your selfless sharing. After experiencing several deaths this winter, this confirms how challenging and evolving grief is. It encourages me to allow myself to move through it all and let it unfold with my full presence. ✌️
Thank you brother. I'm sorry to hear about the losses you've experienced. Although I know you'll navigate it with as much grace and presence as you can. ♥️♥️
Thank you for sharing this. Losing my amazing son Nathaniel to suicide last April shattered my world, and that of his mother and five siblings. All of us are working through our healing process, but it is such a long journey. Thank you for helping show the way.
I'm so sorry to hear you lost Nathaniel and in such a devastating way. Navigating the loss of a child is one of the most difficult things a parent can experience.
I just published a piece about the scourge of shame that I think you might be able to relate to. I hope you aren't blaming yourself brother, but I understand if you are. It's so easy to become ensnared in the doom loop of what you "should" have done and what your son's death says about you as a father.
You don't only have to navigate your own grief, you have to bear witness to the pain of people you love while you're powerless to fix it. Accepting that and being able to able to sit with them in their pain is a journey for many men.
I hope that in time you'll come to realize you did your damn best and that's all any of us can do. Maybe you're already there, and if that's the case, I'm grateful. Or maybe you're nowhere near being able to accept that. If that's the case, I wish you healing.
Parenting is hard. Parenting a child dealing with devastating mental health issues is another universe of challenging. We don't know what to do, make mistakes, say things we regret and then have to find a way to come to terms with all of it after they're gone.
If you ever want to talk brother, send me a DM. It would be an honour to, at the very least, listen to your story ♥️♥️
Glad the grey-ness is making way for the color. The light peering from behind an endless dark curtain. Reading your journey was like reliving my experience and I'm grateful for this. Albeit I wish none of us had to experience it. However, It helped remind me of the similarities within grief.
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I am a different person from when my son Lucas died four years ago and I will never be the same. It’s taken a while to make the shift from anger over not having him in my life for 60 years to being glad that I got a solid 17 years with him.
Thank you for your selfless sharing. After experiencing several deaths this winter, this confirms how challenging and evolving grief is. It encourages me to allow myself to move through it all and let it unfold with my full presence. ✌️
Thank you brother. I'm sorry to hear about the losses you've experienced. Although I know you'll navigate it with as much grace and presence as you can. ♥️♥️
Thank you for sharing this. Losing my amazing son Nathaniel to suicide last April shattered my world, and that of his mother and five siblings. All of us are working through our healing process, but it is such a long journey. Thank you for helping show the way.
I'm so sorry to hear you lost Nathaniel and in such a devastating way. Navigating the loss of a child is one of the most difficult things a parent can experience.
I just published a piece about the scourge of shame that I think you might be able to relate to. I hope you aren't blaming yourself brother, but I understand if you are. It's so easy to become ensnared in the doom loop of what you "should" have done and what your son's death says about you as a father.
You don't only have to navigate your own grief, you have to bear witness to the pain of people you love while you're powerless to fix it. Accepting that and being able to able to sit with them in their pain is a journey for many men.
I hope that in time you'll come to realize you did your damn best and that's all any of us can do. Maybe you're already there, and if that's the case, I'm grateful. Or maybe you're nowhere near being able to accept that. If that's the case, I wish you healing.
Parenting is hard. Parenting a child dealing with devastating mental health issues is another universe of challenging. We don't know what to do, make mistakes, say things we regret and then have to find a way to come to terms with all of it after they're gone.
If you ever want to talk brother, send me a DM. It would be an honour to, at the very least, listen to your story ♥️♥️
Glad the grey-ness is making way for the color. The light peering from behind an endless dark curtain. Reading your journey was like reliving my experience and I'm grateful for this. Albeit I wish none of us had to experience it. However, It helped remind me of the similarities within grief.
Thank you brother.
Thank you brother. You've been an inspiration and guide to me from afar.
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I am a different person from when my son Lucas died four years ago and I will never be the same. It’s taken a while to make the shift from anger over not having him in my life for 60 years to being glad that I got a solid 17 years with him.