Catkin

As I try to move on and establish a new life for myself there is this process of elimination that is going on. People are very skilled at dispensing advice about what to do but I have not always...

2009 has been a monumental year for me. In January 2009, as we approached the two year anniversary, my children and I agreed that it really was time to sell the house and move on. My daughter lived...

The feeling of relief, when I came back to my mother's, who I am staying with this Christmas, knowing that the Christmas revelries were over, was incredible.  This is my third Christmas without...

The ten day beach holiday I planned to help me avoid the real hurly burly of the Christmas season is coming to a close. My daughter left an hour ago and I am heading out of here in another hour or...

The capacity to set goals and journal are  very good features of the DS site. In the short time I have been on the site setting goals and writing journal entries has made a difference to my feeling...

I found DS when I googled looking for a support group. It is clear that I am in a new phase and I realise I am suffering from mild depression. This depression has come as I accept that I really am...

Another link in the chain was broken this week. I had been watching my elderly Cavalier slipping and on Monday it became apparent that he was struggling. I took him to the Vet and Emma made it clear...

The sense of loss and grief over the loss of my mother to cancer, after having gone through this with Darryl, caught up with me and I have not been online for many months. It felt like I had simply...

Something has shifted with the dawn of 2011. I moved to Daylesford, a spa town just outside Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to reinvent myself and start over almost two years ago. The transition...

It feels like I have lanced the boil of grief that was immobilizing me and keeping me in a frozen state.Quite by chance I was invited to go to a Women's Group and found myself in a circle of women...

Mum's death, followed so quickly by the death of my mother-in-law has rocked me. I have not been very communicative over the past four months and things that gave me a sense of purpose have lost...

My path is paved with such good intentions. I keep meaning to spend a bit more time here but the fact that I am not here as much does mean I am breaking free and beginning to feel the surge of life...

After a query I am posting this piece about mourning jewelry I had made after Darryl's death. The band is my wedding ring.Jet was popularized as a material for mourning jewelry by Queen Victoria,...

When I joined DS late last year I was at a particularly low point. I was away on holiday and it hit me that no matter where I went, no matter what I did, I was walking on alone. Darryl felt very...

The past month has been pretty full on. After all the drama it appears that my mother's health issues have been stabalized and she will be going home from rehabilitation later this week. I have found...