Our Stories: My sister, Emily Burke Nichols
Empty Arms is highlighting our beautiful community members and their siblings. We’re so grateful that they’re sharing their stories with us! Tell us about you.I’m Sarah, and I’ve had the …
Early infant loss
Round and Round Again: The Start of School Revisited
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry You know grief isn’t linear. But what shape, what path does it follow? For me, grief has been a spiral. I come round and …
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The Start of School—Milestones Missed and Marked
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry “I can’t believe they’re starting 3rd grade. It goes so fast!” When a mom I know said this a few weeks ago, I remembered back …
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What Helped in the Early Days
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry I am wondering if there was anything you read or got from folks that was at all useful/helpful when you lost Henry? No pressure to …
Ingrid Haiku
by Autumn Gordon Autumn wrote these haiku about her firstborn daughter Ingrid Elizabeth, who died from complications of prematurity in the winter of 2013. Thank you so much, Autumn, for …
Tell me about him
A beautiful post by Sara Barry, mother to Henry, who should be seven years old now. Sara is always full of sage words, and I’m so glad she decided to …