Extracting The Meaning From the Loss of My Daughter
I am a mother and a bereaved mother. While I am accepting of my newly bereaved identity, I prefer for the mother and the bereaved mother in me to exist apart. Split personalities. A notable change in my behavior when one takes over the other, and yet traits of one personality bleed into the other. One pushes the other […]
How My Daughter’s Death Changed My Relationship With Time
“Picture yourself as a little girl. Remember what it felt like to be in your body and free of worry. Go back to that time.” I’m in the yoga studio. Immediately, I see June’s face. June, our daughter who passed away from neuroblastoma when she was eighteen months old, never experienced what it was like to […]
The Middle of Treatment
December 2024 When you should be making her Christmas wish list Not filling out forms for Make A Wish Written By Leah Bodenbach, RN, BSN UX Copywriter | Nurse Writer @ Tiny Health Holistic Pediatric Nurse Coach Blooming Motherhood, CEO + Founder www.bloomingmotherhood.co | @bloomingmotherhood
Grieving The End of My Childbearing Years After Losing My Daughter
“How many children will I have?” I ask Isabel, my Chilean host-sister, over video chat. She’s in her kitchen in Chile deliberating my future with each tarot card she gently turns, analyzes, then reads aloud. I’m 3,500 miles away, standing in my kitchen in Maine, unshowered, in a t-shirt and underwear. It’s nearly noon. My […]
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Are you interested in sharing your story with our community in hopes of helping and connecting with another? Please consider submitting to Carrying June. You do not have to be a writer, only someone who loves a child with cancer and has a story to tell.