The Body Knows: How Grief Shows Up
By Sara Barry “How are you doing?” a friend asked, knowing that May is a charged month. Mother’s Day is a complicated tangle of breakfast in bed and flowering plants, …
Grief
Yo Te Puedo Ver/ You are Seen
By Gloria Agosto Yo Te Puedo VerEs casi como si el dolor te hace invisible. El momento más duro el cual no se puede entender,nadie y nada parece brindar algún …
Mother’s Day
Beth made some small edits to this beautiful poem, “For Those Who Hurt On Mother’s Day,” to focus on baby and pregnancy loss. We hope it speaks to you. Thank …
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, …
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 …
Grief Doesn’t Knock
By Sadie DybizbanskiNovember 25, 2015 Grief doesn’t politely knock on the door of your heart and wait to be invited in. Grief doesn’t greet you politely with a warm hug …
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 …
How You Begin Again
Hope in the Rough: Surviving Miscarriage & Challenges ConceivingBy Charlotte Capogna-Amias It’s been five weeks and five days since my pregnancy ended. Following my attendance at a support group for women …
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 …