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Category: Healing After Loss

Healing After Loss, Life after loss, Stillbirth

Returning To Normal

August 12, 2018by Benjamin's Light6 Comments on Returning To Normal
Returning To Normal

I always laugh when I say the word "normal" now. Like many other words since Benjamin died, it feels like it has taken on a completely different meaning. It is getting up every day, going to work, talking to people (usually with a fake smile on my face), feeling sad, often shedding a tear and [...]

Grief, Healing After Loss, Life after loss, Stillbirth

Getting Comfortable With My Grief

July 29, 2018July 29, 2018by Benjamin's LightLeave a Comment on Getting Comfortable With My Grief
Getting Comfortable With My Grief

First Published at Still Standing Magazine How do you learn to get comfortable with your grief? It is so all-consuming that you soon learn to hate it, wishing it would just go away. But what if fighting against it only makes it worse? Accepting that grief is a part of your new life may be [...]

Grief, Healing After Loss, Pregnancy Loss, Stillbirth

Does Time Really Heal?

May 22, 2018May 22, 2018by Benjamin's Light9 Comments on Does Time Really Heal?
Does Time Really Heal?

Everyone loves a good platitude when it comes to loss. Everything happens for a reason, there is a silver lining to every cloud, it was meant to be…take your pick. Most of the time platitudes only serve to make the person using them feel better. They fill a gap, an awkward silence, all the while [...]

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I am Benjamin’s Mummy, otherwise known as Catherine.  I live in Perth, Western Australia with my amazing husband and blog about our lives in the aftermath of our only son Benjamin being stillborn.

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