It’s that time where you hear about everyone’s resolutions and plans for the year whether you want to or not. Good intentions to change unhealthy habits into healthy ones, to grow in a certain aspect of character or to make some sort of positive change overall.
Me personally? I hate resolutions.
However, there is still a lot to learn about holding space for people who actively grieve any other significant loss. This holds especially true for those who have lost someone who still lives.
Telling someone who has experienced trauma to let you know if they need anything is like throwing a suggestion box to someone drowning instead of a life preserver and asking them to let you know how they can be saved.
Child bereavement doesn’t just come when a baby is lost, it shows up when a piece, or pieces, of your child is lost or stolen by trauma. Here are few ways to emotionally support a medical parent friend.
You shouldn’t have to see my child suffer or be using their medical equipment to believe or accept as fact that our lives really are as hard as we say…
Hello. My name is Adrienne Adesanwo, and I am the mom of an AVM Warrior.