Jenna, thank you for this tremendously insightful and realistic article. As much as I love and enjoy your incisive humor, you have an ability to do this kind of writing with great alacrity. This line really said it well: "But she was practicing medicine in a culture that’s become remarkably uncomfortable with normal human suffering."
I lost my 12-year-old sister in 1969 when I was still 13, and yes, that loss at that stage of life was overwhelming. But nobody EVER thought of prescribing a drug to deal with it. And then you wrote this, "Sometimes what we need isn’t a prescription—it’s permission." Yes, permission to be human, to actually FEEL the emotion of the moment or the event. I really appreciate this particular article in light of today's pharma-happy culture. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, Jenna. It's now been 57 years since that and, though I often think of Nancy, I'm in a good place accepting God's perfect will in this. His will be done, every day.
Thank you, Laura, I appreciate your kind words. At the time, it was a giant hole in my soul. The great news is that I knew then and know now that my beautiful sister, Nancy, is with Jesus, and I will one day be reunited with her.
Well said Jeff! I go through my own DEEP grief, lost my beloved husband of 36 years and cried so much until my tears became blood. But I never thought for a moment I have to take medications to numb my pain. Somehow I thought that was disrespectful for my body and love for my husband...
Grief takes so many forms and can rise up to bite at the strangest times.
I recently purchased C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed. I am blown away by his ability to put to words the undescribable. It is a short book. It takes the reader through Lewis’ anger and questioning God to finding comfort in His grace. I know I will read it again…
You are so RIGHT! THESE DRUGS ARE WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS. They also modify the brain biochemistry oftentimes irreversibly. but what we might not be able to measure yet- it is not just the biochemistry, but also bioenergy and thoughts, wishes, thinking, aspirations, will, etc etc. Basically these drugs can change for ever a child/human.
When I was in college I had a fair amount of anxiety, just trying to wrangle so many conundrums, but everyone was pushing meds on me, including my dental hygienist! As a philosophy major, I of course refused to tranquilize any such anxiety pharmaceutically – glad I never got on drugs.
Good for you. I was prescribed ssri in my mid twenties after several crises, and every time I tried to stop, it was agony. Finally got completely off of them in my 40s with a very slow taper. Thankfully, I have no long lasting effects. Looking back, I don't think they helped. I was in counseling, and eventually quit drinking, which helped more than anything.
I had a bully of a doctor prescribe an SSRI for me, and I took it just to prove to her I didn't need it (I had no idea at the time about withdrawals. Shocking how docs never seem to mention that part). Well, three days later I woke up a new person. I had no idea up to that point what happy really felt like. Life has been great since, so I tried to go off. I started January 1, was down to a crumb every few days, until about two weeks ago. I bottomed out. I was miserable, felt guilty about everything again, my husband was awful, and even my garden brought me no joy. So I'm back on, and happy again. *sigh* I don't want to be one of those people who needs them, but here I am.
My brother's story is identical to yours. Almost verbatim. He has something few even in the medical community understand (HPPD) and it is debilitating. Not for hours or days but months. He was on benzos for years and managing it, but like you "didn't want to be one of those people who needs them," so he decided to wean off. It took him THREE years to do it. He was doing pretty well but was living abroad and an attack hit him and he legit couldn't function. So he's back on (and beating himself up). I have so much sympathy for you both. I'll pray for you as well.
OH...I just looked up HPPD. Dear God, that's awful. I have never experienced that, maybe because I am on a very low dose. I absolutely will pray for him.
Payed off my student loans working in software (not my preference), but started off in architecture and animation, did a lot of industrial design too while living in Boston – currently interviewing for a new role however so hopefully that comes to pass!
This post is one of your best! The fact that it's in IMA rather than in your personal Substack speaks volumes. It's a different audience but with some overlap.
In some ways, I'm very thankful that I'm retired after practicing pediatrics for 40 years. But I wish I still had the impact on the young brood of doctors. I realize, however, that they would dismiss my now-divergent views as dangerous or mis-informed.
Thank you for stating the obvious wisdom that us old dinosaur doctors wish people would listen to and take seriously.
"But I wish I still had the impact on the young brood of doctors." I wish you did too, we need a LOT better doctors at this point than are out there now.
“In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.
Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.
My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.
So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.
Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.”
I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad. What a vividly human emotional experience in your life to have the death of your father and birth of your child so close together. I have lost both parents, it was a different personally and emotionally in each case, but there is also a profound privilege in the experience. They are always with you. Since their passing I absolutely communicate with both of them.
You are funny but also a wonderful writer. I have been in a similar situation, probably most of us have. I had a doctor tell me, “maybe you don’t know you are depressed”! Can you believe it. We have to question everything. The danger is these docs think prescriptions are the answer, they have been brainwashed.
I am going to speculate that much of our collective health problems and statistics are brought about by medication prescribed for other “problems”. I just don’t believe most of the medical community anymore and will not be medicating myself. I too don’t think it is necessarily nefarious but programmed into their brain.
Now if I have a traumatic emergency that’s different.
Our bodies were made to move and eat good nutritional food therefore I eat nutritious food and exercise in fun ways doing my best to enjoy life.
I pray to God that I can do this until the day I die.
Unfortunately, this is the ''way'' of MSM these days and for the past couple of decades. We need to do better. That is why I train my practitioners in a new way/paradigm of delivering healthcare. Carefully listen first and gather critical information before pulling out a prescription pad.
"That is why I train my practitioners in a new way/paradigm of delivering healthcare. Carefully listen first and gather critical information before pulling out a prescription pad." THANK YOU for your service to humanity doing that!!
I agree to a point. But we have Rockefeller and medical schools to blame for all of it. Today's drs are not anyone to trust. IMHO. Allopathic medicine is oil based pills. They, the drs, get paid by the pill without understanding the symptoms and the cause. The current drs really don't "CURE" anything. They cover up the symptoms. Then another pill to cover up the symptoms created by the first pill. I think that if we honestly know ourselves we will diagnose what is causing our pain or unhappiness.
Great article Jenna. As always.
We lost our son 3 years ago, he was 34. My wife developed a heart condition and the way the symptoms were the ekg showed the heart was fine but the symptoms the dr actually said was a broken heart. She is fine today and no meds needed. But we both miss him so much.
We are both ok today but will forever miss him everyday. But no medicine would have helped except make us a zombie.
P.S. I did drs lower case because I do not have respect for 90+ percent of drs today. Like Dr. Dan said below the ones today are not even close to the same as the older days when I was young.
I was told so many times Suck it up buttercup as "From the Beach" mentioned.
I lost my spouse not many months ago. The day before Easter I experienced 12 hrs of very rapid heart rate. Thankfully eventually got it slowed with the right combination of homeopathic meds. Saw my Dr (a chiropractor) couple days later, and he said heart was fine. It was all neuro coming from grief and trauma. I also had determined that it was probably facilitated by my own inadequate complete protein intake (body couldn't make the calming neurotransmitters for the heart), and he agreed.
We addressed with well-chosen nutritional supplements and herbals for the stress. Thankful for healers who recognize that we are whole, connected beings.
After burying my 5th family member in 8 months yesterday, this is good. Grief is how we work through our losses. And I have had to have help but your statement by your Dr is so true! First words out of my favorite PCP 26 years ago in December after losing my first husband this month. I was depressed and overwhelmed right before Thanksgiving that year. We have become an over medicated nation.
Jenna, you have my permission (not that you need it) to grieve for your father in whatever way helps you best. And move over on that grief bench. In the space of 3.5 years, seven people I loved and cared about, including my parents, eldest sister, and my wife, all died. I never once thought to ask for medication. For many reasons, I needed to feel all the grief and many other emotions I have experienced along the way to healing. Emotions are not enemies. They are signals and teachers. Listen up! Pay heed!
Thank you, Jenna. Yes. It has been heartbreaking in a literal way. I have developed rapid heartbeat and am on a beta blocker to help slow it down. But there are also emotions behind the physical illness and I am exploring and resolving them as I can. Every physical ailment arises from one or more emotional issues. Almost every major world faith teaches that God is love. Take that literally. God is a feeling, among our Creator's many aspects. If we drug our way out of feeling anything, we block our best path to God. And I believe without God there is no healing. That is why I refuse to numb the emotions surrounding grief.
Also, I have used an herbal combination from Standard Process that includes Ashwaganda, one of the skullcaps, Korean ginseng, and licorice for supporting the nervous system and calming it. My Dr said if we can calm that, that's what's driving the rapid HR.
I found both quite helpful - the protocol and the herbs.
A cardiologist friend wanted to get me in and offered a beta-blocker, and for me, I really didn't want that because of the depressive, sedating effects.
Grace to you as you continue this impossible path. I'm deeply sorry that you have lost so many important people in such a compressed timeframe.
Thank you for the link. I take choline every day. The beta blocker was prescribed for me by an osteopath who abandoned allopathic medicine and now practices homeopathy. It's low dose and does not produce any side effects that I am aware of. Yes, the high heart rate is all about nervous system dysfunction. In my case, I was born in fight or flight mode and living in that constant state for decades has ravaged my physical body. I am slowly unearthing, resolving, and healing the emotional-spiritual issues behind that constant fight-or-flight. Pretty heavy-duty-stuff. Thanks again for expressing your compassion.
You will have a great family reunion in the future. This is a temporary separation. One of the great promises that Jesus shared with me, and with indescribable love for all.
The depression questionnaire that Medicare Advantage staff routinely hand out to Clients was designed by pharma co's that manufacture anti-depressant drugs. Don't waste your time taking it if you're a follower of Peter Breggin MD, whose books are the bible on why SSRI's harm people of certain temperaments, (like the deep thinkers).
"And if you don’t let yourself go through that—if you numb it, rush it, or pathologize it—you don’t skip the pain. You just postpone it. And like an unpaid bill, grief has a way of collecting interest."
I didn't realize how I was holding everything in when my mother died. I,without realizing it, had gone through life, putting out fires and existing. On the 5th anniversary of her death, I woke up that morning and couldn't get out of bed. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. My family was very good about it, checked on me at times, brought me things to nibble on.
I woke up the next morning with a huge weight off me; a weight I didn't know I was carrying. I was a different person and have been able to go on with my life.
Great article. I say this perfect comment, “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get”! I take each up and down life throws at me as a lesson to learn the best way to handle it, and do! I stay away from false remedies and use logic. I listen to those that love me and follow my heart. Things that hurt us usually pass even if they don’t completely go away! Best to you! Enjoy that baby, a gift for sure! 👍
Jenna, thank you for this tremendously insightful and realistic article. As much as I love and enjoy your incisive humor, you have an ability to do this kind of writing with great alacrity. This line really said it well: "But she was practicing medicine in a culture that’s become remarkably uncomfortable with normal human suffering."
I lost my 12-year-old sister in 1969 when I was still 13, and yes, that loss at that stage of life was overwhelming. But nobody EVER thought of prescribing a drug to deal with it. And then you wrote this, "Sometimes what we need isn’t a prescription—it’s permission." Yes, permission to be human, to actually FEEL the emotion of the moment or the event. I really appreciate this particular article in light of today's pharma-happy culture. Keep up the great work!
I’m so sorry for your loss Jeff. It’s truly unimaginable. Thank you for the kind words. Wish I could give you a hug.🩷
Thanks, Jenna. It's now been 57 years since that and, though I often think of Nancy, I'm in a good place accepting God's perfect will in this. His will be done, every day.
🙏
There will be joy when you meet her again.
Yes, Justin, absolutely! That's the joy that Jesus gives us, isn't it?
Such a lovely comment Jeff.
I’m sad you lost your sister. 😢
Even at our advanced ages, the thought of losing mine is very difficult.
Thank you, Laura, I appreciate your kind words. At the time, it was a giant hole in my soul. The great news is that I knew then and know now that my beautiful sister, Nancy, is with Jesus, and I will one day be reunited with her.
Such a wonderful comfort to actually know what the future brings.
Amen!
Well said Jeff! I go through my own DEEP grief, lost my beloved husband of 36 years and cried so much until my tears became blood. But I never thought for a moment I have to take medications to numb my pain. Somehow I thought that was disrespectful for my body and love for my husband...
Jeff,
I am certain Virginia Woolf would be inspired by this piece of Jenna's brilliance.
I'm sure you're right, well thought.
....not every feeling needs to be fixed...!
End of story.
We need to start saying, " suck it up , buttercup 💪."
Good job , Jenna.
Grief takes so many forms and can rise up to bite at the strangest times.
I recently purchased C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed. I am blown away by his ability to put to words the undescribable. It is a short book. It takes the reader through Lewis’ anger and questioning God to finding comfort in His grace. I know I will read it again…
Our over medication of kids especially concerns me. Many of these psych meds work at first...until they don't and then they are difficult to stop.
You are so RIGHT! THESE DRUGS ARE WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS. They also modify the brain biochemistry oftentimes irreversibly. but what we might not be able to measure yet- it is not just the biochemistry, but also bioenergy and thoughts, wishes, thinking, aspirations, will, etc etc. Basically these drugs can change for ever a child/human.
VERY VERY difficult to stop. Been there, still have the mental scarring from it.
When I was in college I had a fair amount of anxiety, just trying to wrangle so many conundrums, but everyone was pushing meds on me, including my dental hygienist! As a philosophy major, I of course refused to tranquilize any such anxiety pharmaceutically – glad I never got on drugs.
Good for you. I was prescribed ssri in my mid twenties after several crises, and every time I tried to stop, it was agony. Finally got completely off of them in my 40s with a very slow taper. Thankfully, I have no long lasting effects. Looking back, I don't think they helped. I was in counseling, and eventually quit drinking, which helped more than anything.
I had a bully of a doctor prescribe an SSRI for me, and I took it just to prove to her I didn't need it (I had no idea at the time about withdrawals. Shocking how docs never seem to mention that part). Well, three days later I woke up a new person. I had no idea up to that point what happy really felt like. Life has been great since, so I tried to go off. I started January 1, was down to a crumb every few days, until about two weeks ago. I bottomed out. I was miserable, felt guilty about everything again, my husband was awful, and even my garden brought me no joy. So I'm back on, and happy again. *sigh* I don't want to be one of those people who needs them, but here I am.
My brother's story is identical to yours. Almost verbatim. He has something few even in the medical community understand (HPPD) and it is debilitating. Not for hours or days but months. He was on benzos for years and managing it, but like you "didn't want to be one of those people who needs them," so he decided to wean off. It took him THREE years to do it. He was doing pretty well but was living abroad and an attack hit him and he legit couldn't function. So he's back on (and beating himself up). I have so much sympathy for you both. I'll pray for you as well.
OH...I just looked up HPPD. Dear God, that's awful. I have never experienced that, maybe because I am on a very low dose. I absolutely will pray for him.
Thank you, Jenna. And I will pray for your brother as well. It is so hard to be a believing Christian and admit that meds are necessary.
That's where grace comes in. :) And thank you right back.
Double M,I am not going to give advice, that is not my privilege…but I will include you in my prayers, if that’s ok.
Richard, I would be a fool to not accept your prayers, with gratitude. God bless you.
Oh, and I am always open to advice.
If you feel better on them and have no side effects, count that as a blessing! I have patients who have similar experiences.
There are legitimate benefits for many; saved two of my severely suicidal friends a few decades ago.
Nice, I was a philosophy major also! What do you do now?
Payed off my student loans working in software (not my preference), but started off in architecture and animation, did a lot of industrial design too while living in Boston – currently interviewing for a new role however so hopefully that comes to pass!
great Jason! You don't even know how much you helped your body and health!
Excellent writing about a crucial distinction between normal adjustments and true pathology.
Such an honor coming from you!😊
This post is one of your best! The fact that it's in IMA rather than in your personal Substack speaks volumes. It's a different audience but with some overlap.
In some ways, I'm very thankful that I'm retired after practicing pediatrics for 40 years. But I wish I still had the impact on the young brood of doctors. I realize, however, that they would dismiss my now-divergent views as dangerous or mis-informed.
Thank you for stating the obvious wisdom that us old dinosaur doctors wish people would listen to and take seriously.
"But I wish I still had the impact on the young brood of doctors." I wish you did too, we need a LOT better doctors at this point than are out there now.
Let them dismiss you, but keep talking. Some will remember your counsel when things stop making sense in their world.
“In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.
Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.
My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.
So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.
Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.”
― Ernest Hemingway
YES!!!
I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad. What a vividly human emotional experience in your life to have the death of your father and birth of your child so close together. I have lost both parents, it was a different personally and emotionally in each case, but there is also a profound privilege in the experience. They are always with you. Since their passing I absolutely communicate with both of them.
You are funny but also a wonderful writer. I have been in a similar situation, probably most of us have. I had a doctor tell me, “maybe you don’t know you are depressed”! Can you believe it. We have to question everything. The danger is these docs think prescriptions are the answer, they have been brainwashed.
I am going to speculate that much of our collective health problems and statistics are brought about by medication prescribed for other “problems”. I just don’t believe most of the medical community anymore and will not be medicating myself. I too don’t think it is necessarily nefarious but programmed into their brain.
Now if I have a traumatic emergency that’s different.
Our bodies were made to move and eat good nutritional food therefore I eat nutritious food and exercise in fun ways doing my best to enjoy life.
I pray to God that I can do this until the day I die.
Many Blessings to you Jenna and your family.
What a lovely comment. I have genuine tears in my eyes. Privilege is the perfect word. Blessings right back!🩷
Unfortunately, this is the ''way'' of MSM these days and for the past couple of decades. We need to do better. That is why I train my practitioners in a new way/paradigm of delivering healthcare. Carefully listen first and gather critical information before pulling out a prescription pad.
Better yet, burn🔥the prescription pad ;-)
"That is why I train my practitioners in a new way/paradigm of delivering healthcare. Carefully listen first and gather critical information before pulling out a prescription pad." THANK YOU for your service to humanity doing that!!
I agree to a point. But we have Rockefeller and medical schools to blame for all of it. Today's drs are not anyone to trust. IMHO. Allopathic medicine is oil based pills. They, the drs, get paid by the pill without understanding the symptoms and the cause. The current drs really don't "CURE" anything. They cover up the symptoms. Then another pill to cover up the symptoms created by the first pill. I think that if we honestly know ourselves we will diagnose what is causing our pain or unhappiness.
Great article Jenna. As always.
We lost our son 3 years ago, he was 34. My wife developed a heart condition and the way the symptoms were the ekg showed the heart was fine but the symptoms the dr actually said was a broken heart. She is fine today and no meds needed. But we both miss him so much.
We are both ok today but will forever miss him everyday. But no medicine would have helped except make us a zombie.
P.S. I did drs lower case because I do not have respect for 90+ percent of drs today. Like Dr. Dan said below the ones today are not even close to the same as the older days when I was young.
I was told so many times Suck it up buttercup as "From the Beach" mentioned.
Oh SteveO, my heart. I genuinely, sincerely cannot fathom the loss of a child. I'm so, so sorry.
There ARE still some good docs out there (particularly with the IMA, which is why I contribute here). Dr. Marik is a living saint. :)
Thank you. I appreciate it. But I know your hurt as well. I Love you.
XOXOXO
I am very sorry for the loss of your young son.
I lost my spouse not many months ago. The day before Easter I experienced 12 hrs of very rapid heart rate. Thankfully eventually got it slowed with the right combination of homeopathic meds. Saw my Dr (a chiropractor) couple days later, and he said heart was fine. It was all neuro coming from grief and trauma. I also had determined that it was probably facilitated by my own inadequate complete protein intake (body couldn't make the calming neurotransmitters for the heart), and he agreed.
We addressed with well-chosen nutritional supplements and herbals for the stress. Thankful for healers who recognize that we are whole, connected beings.
Thank you brother.
Love this and your writings ❤️🌞💥
😍
So do I Bro! Jenna truly has a gift for prose.
No truer words in this post.
🤗🥳🤗
After burying my 5th family member in 8 months yesterday, this is good. Grief is how we work through our losses. And I have had to have help but your statement by your Dr is so true! First words out of my favorite PCP 26 years ago in December after losing my first husband this month. I was depressed and overwhelmed right before Thanksgiving that year. We have become an over medicated nation.
I am so incredibly sorry for your profound losses. Thank you for sharing.
I can't imagine your grief! There will be a great family reunion in the hereafter! So much to look forward to.
Jenna, you have my permission (not that you need it) to grieve for your father in whatever way helps you best. And move over on that grief bench. In the space of 3.5 years, seven people I loved and cared about, including my parents, eldest sister, and my wife, all died. I never once thought to ask for medication. For many reasons, I needed to feel all the grief and many other emotions I have experienced along the way to healing. Emotions are not enemies. They are signals and teachers. Listen up! Pay heed!
Ooooof. That's heartbreaking. Sending lots of love your way. XO
Thank you, Jenna. Yes. It has been heartbreaking in a literal way. I have developed rapid heartbeat and am on a beta blocker to help slow it down. But there are also emotions behind the physical illness and I am exploring and resolving them as I can. Every physical ailment arises from one or more emotional issues. Almost every major world faith teaches that God is love. Take that literally. God is a feeling, among our Creator's many aspects. If we drug our way out of feeling anything, we block our best path to God. And I believe without God there is no healing. That is why I refuse to numb the emotions surrounding grief.
I developed a [temporary] rapid HR after my spouse died. Also very much emotionally driven.
You may wish to look up the Milner protocol for supporting normal HR. https://townsendletter.com/milner-acetylcholine-protocol-map/
Also, I have used an herbal combination from Standard Process that includes Ashwaganda, one of the skullcaps, Korean ginseng, and licorice for supporting the nervous system and calming it. My Dr said if we can calm that, that's what's driving the rapid HR.
I found both quite helpful - the protocol and the herbs.
A cardiologist friend wanted to get me in and offered a beta-blocker, and for me, I really didn't want that because of the depressive, sedating effects.
Grace to you as you continue this impossible path. I'm deeply sorry that you have lost so many important people in such a compressed timeframe.
Thank you for the link. I take choline every day. The beta blocker was prescribed for me by an osteopath who abandoned allopathic medicine and now practices homeopathy. It's low dose and does not produce any side effects that I am aware of. Yes, the high heart rate is all about nervous system dysfunction. In my case, I was born in fight or flight mode and living in that constant state for decades has ravaged my physical body. I am slowly unearthing, resolving, and healing the emotional-spiritual issues behind that constant fight-or-flight. Pretty heavy-duty-stuff. Thanks again for expressing your compassion.
You will have a great family reunion in the future. This is a temporary separation. One of the great promises that Jesus shared with me, and with indescribable love for all.
The depression questionnaire that Medicare Advantage staff routinely hand out to Clients was designed by pharma co's that manufacture anti-depressant drugs. Don't waste your time taking it if you're a follower of Peter Breggin MD, whose books are the bible on why SSRI's harm people of certain temperaments, (like the deep thinkers).
If they require it to be filled out, I lie.
"And if you don’t let yourself go through that—if you numb it, rush it, or pathologize it—you don’t skip the pain. You just postpone it. And like an unpaid bill, grief has a way of collecting interest."
I didn't realize how I was holding everything in when my mother died. I,without realizing it, had gone through life, putting out fires and existing. On the 5th anniversary of her death, I woke up that morning and couldn't get out of bed. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. My family was very good about it, checked on me at times, brought me things to nibble on.
I woke up the next morning with a huge weight off me; a weight I didn't know I was carrying. I was a different person and have been able to go on with my life.
I am covered in chills. I always tell myself "grief doesn't wear a watch." I'm so glad you had that experience and that support.
Great article. I say this perfect comment, “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get”! I take each up and down life throws at me as a lesson to learn the best way to handle it, and do! I stay away from false remedies and use logic. I listen to those that love me and follow my heart. Things that hurt us usually pass even if they don’t completely go away! Best to you! Enjoy that baby, a gift for sure! 👍
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