A reflection on a life.
Saturday afternoon, I had the heart-wrenching and soul-expanding experience of attending a memorial service for a girl in my son Liam’s class. I’ll call her B, and a year earlier, …
Carol McMurrich
Meet Our Founder: Carol McMurrich!
Seeing Empty Arms grow and thrive nourishes my soul every day. When my baby Charlotte died in May of 2003, I was bereft and so alone. I sat in my …
Meet Our Board: Greg Reynolds!
My name is Greg, and I miss my daughter Charlotte. Charlotte was born still on May 13, 2003 into the arms of two adoring and devastated parents. A beautiful baby …
Empty Arms, Full Heart
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry On a cold, dark evening in January 2008, barely a month after Henry died, I dragged myself out of my warm house, out of the …
Looking Back
by Carol McMurrich In 2013, I wrote three blog posts on the 10 year anniversary of Charlotte’s birth, at three different times of day. They document my searing memory of …
Questions to ponder…
This is a repost of a blog musing from 2008… something I think could rouse thoughts and opinions for anyone in this community. How it is possible to be up …
Thoughts from San Antonio…
by Carol McMurrich “May I offer my care and presence unconditionally, knowing it may be met with gratitude, indifference, anger or anguish. May I see my own limits with compassion, …
November First
As a group facilitator, it is my job to go first. And so, on this first day of November, a month during which the light will fade, I will share …
More than ten years along…
Some thoughts from Carol… Several years ago, I was chatting after a fourth Wednesday support group meeting with a mother whose loss had occurred several months prior. It was a …
October 15th
October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness day. On this day, we are invited to take part in the international wave of light. Beginning at 7 PM, light a …