Jul 10, 2023 | Adults, Bereavement, Family Time, From the Heart, Moms & Dads
By TMoM Team Member Suzy Fielders Back in 2017, I wrote this TMoM blog about an extremely hard time in my life and the first time I truly felt all-encompassing despair. Well, 2023 was the first time I truly felt all-encompassing grief. I wanted to share my story in...
May 13, 2023 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, Babies, Bereavement, From the Heart, Pregnancy & Babies
By TMoM Team Member JamillahNeeairah Nasir (Mama J) Mother’s Day is traditionally a time of celebration for the love and dedication of mothers, grandmothers, and mother figures. We envision reservations for brunch haphazardly prepared by happy little hands,...
Apr 17, 2023 | Babies, Bereavement, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies
By TMoM Team Member Suzy Fielders Rainbow baby. Do you know this term? If you do, then it has likely directly impacted you and you probably have or are hoping for a rainbow baby yourself. Until October 2021, I had never really put much thought into that term or truly...
Feb 3, 2022 | Adults, Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By TMoM Team Member Rachel Hoeing It seems that a lot of people are struggling right now. It’s an usual time in our lives, and difficult for many reasons. I wanted to re-share this blog I wrote in August of 2018 in hopes that it brings validation to your...
Jan 7, 2022 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, Babies, Bereavement, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Katie Allen, author of The ECE Mommy In November 2019, my husband and I experienced a tragic miscarriage of what would have been our second child. We were devastated. Not long after we decided to take time off trying and I got an IUD. I previously...
Oct 26, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Legal & Financial, Local Resources, Moms & Dads
By TMoM Team Member Rachel Hoeing In our lifetimes, we will all have different crosses to bear. The way we handle them and the way we survive those challenges will make a difference in our own lives and in the lives of others. It can make the cross-bearing event a...
Jan 28, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Hayluri (Luly) Beckles This May will be 15 years since I became a member of a very special club…the kind of club no parent should ever have to join… that is the bereaved parent club. I am fully aware that not everyone grieves the same. However,...
Oct 22, 2020 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Safety
By Guest Blogger Hayluri (Luly) Beckles My son, Joshua Franklin Palomares-Beckles, was born on March 24, 1999. He was a caring and vibrant little boy who loved trains, drawing and math. Joshua also enjoyed playing soccer and riding his bike in our backyard. He was...
Sep 16, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, Bereavement, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Jessica Tudor “A fish cannot live without water.” That is what a friend told me a few weeks after my husband, Louis, took his own life. Took his own life. That is a phrase I never thought I would use when discussing my husband. Louis was a...
Jul 14, 2020 | Bereavement, Health
By TMoM Team Member Rachel Hoeing The most difficult part of giving support to a friend who has suffered a loss is that everyone grieves differently. Some people want to be alone, others want to be with friends, some cry all day long, and others don’t cry until a full...
Feb 10, 2020 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Just for Dads, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Rob Ainbinder When my wife passed away on August 22, 2019, from Glioblastoma multiforme (a fancy name for brain cancer), my life and my daughter’s were changed forever. We were no longer an intact, two-parent family with one child. I was, with some...
Nov 23, 2019 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool
By Felicity Lewis There will inevitably come a time when you, as an adult need to attend a funeral. As hard as funerals can be for us as adults, we are occasionally faced with a difficult decision—do I bring my child to the funeral of a deceased loved one. There’s...
Feb 5, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, Bereavement, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Becky Johnston I have a friend with depression. Recently, the two of us were scheduled to be at an event together and she asked if she could ride with me. She said she knew she would back out of our event if she didn’t have the accountability of...
Dec 21, 2018 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Holidays, Local Resources, Moms & Dads, Non Profits, Parent & Child Groups / Support Groups, Parenting & Family
By Anne Powers I sat at the kitchen counter the Monday before Thanksgiving editing my Christmas card addresses. That’s when it hit me: Granny Stubbins would no longer be on my list. A long-time member of Muirs’ Chapel Church of Greensboro, she spent her final years in...
Dec 15, 2018 | Adults, Bereavement, Children's Health & Developmental Concerns, Health, Local Resources, Parent & Child Groups / Support Groups
By Guest Blogger Sarah Kilbreth In the United States, it is estimated that 25% of women and their families will experience pregnancy or infant loss. Despite this loss affecting so many, the topic of pregnancy and infant loss still feels taboo. Unfortunately, this...
Oct 15, 2018 | Adult Health & Wellness, Babies, Bereavement, Health
By Guest Blogger Lori Starling I’m part of the “one in four.” It’s a club that no one ever wants to be part of and one I never dreamed I would experience, twice. My entire life, being a mom was what I wanted more than anything. I was 30 years old when I...
Oct 10, 2018 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Lauren Bowen As I stand at the edge of this mountainside I remember back to that crisp fall day in 2007 when I tearfully said “YES!” to the man on one knee. The man who would become my husband, the father of my child. The one who I would spend forever...
Feb 7, 2018 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Hot Topics, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Safety, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Claudia Marini My Worst Days Ever December 29, 2016 will forever be the first worst day of my life. It is the day that every parent fears. Two phone calls happened that night. The first call saying that my daughter was found unconscious from an...
Jan 20, 2018 | Adults, Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Laura Simon This is perhaps not the best day for me to write a blog post. In fact, the safest thing for me to do is to hunker down in my bathroom and avoid contact with the outside world. Today is the eighth anniversary of my dad’s death. I’ve noticed that, whether...
Oct 30, 2017 | Babies, Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Hot Topics, Just for Moms, Local Resources, Moms & Dads, Parent & Child Groups / Support Groups, Pregnancy & Babies
By Guest Blogger Elizabeth Severson Mom, Mummy, Mae, Madre; a title that is proudly used by many, longed by many, and sadly, unrealized by many. On November 16th of 2016 I gazed at a pregnancy test that confirmed I would soon take on the new title of “mommy.” I had...
Sep 13, 2017 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Becky Wright I recently received a text from a friend asking about my experience as a “family caregiver.” Basically, the text read “How did you do it?” She was aware that I had cared for my mother for over a year in my home before she passed away...
Dec 24, 2016 | Bereavement, Health, Holidays, Parenting & Family
By Anne Powers Many of you read my blog about spending my first Christmas without my Grandmother. Even though she passed away in August, I find that my 6-year-old still brings up how much she misses her. Though she barely knew her, her death is still as unsettled...
Dec 10, 2016 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Holidays, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Rachel Hoeing This blog was written by Rachel five years ago, but it is something that we think is worth sharing over and over again. Rachel has said that this gift idea is one that she treasures more and more as time goes on. We hope you take this blog to heart...
Nov 4, 2016 | Adult Health & Wellness, Bereavement, Children's Health & Wellness, Health
By Guest Blogger Gray Moulton, LMFT, CST Therapist There has been much discussion in the media and in our social groups lately about depression. There is a constant need to spread awareness about mental health for the sake of our loved ones, our children, and those...
Oct 19, 2015 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Tracy Mohr Mrs. T’s note to my Aunt Barbara arrived in our mailbox this summer, addressed in shaky handwriting on a bright teal envelope. I anticipated the “I’ve missed you” on the front of the card, but wasn’t expecting the note inside. It hit hard....
Aug 25, 2015 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Rachel Hoeing Last week I read yet another blog about “What Not to Say to Someone Who Has Lost a Loved One.” I have come across numerous blogs like this that give advice on what not to say to an orphan, a widow, a mom who lost a child, etc. All are...
Jun 22, 2015 | Bereavement, Children's Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Molly Kramer March 18, 2012. Nearly 38 weeks pregnant with our second child, I was frantically packing the hospital bag that I had been putting off for weeks. Contractions had started in the middle of the night and by morning, my nervous jitters had...
Dec 13, 2014 | Bereavement, Health, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Rebecca Nagaishi It feels like tragic events are jumping off the pages of our newspapers these past few weeks. Headlines of young drivers and passengers killed in fatal car accidents, the shocking shooting death of a promising young soccer player, the Ebola crisis...
Sep 4, 2014 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Local Resources, Moms & Dads, Non Profits, Parent & Child Groups / Support Groups
By Guest Blogger Annie Vorys, Heartstrings Director of Advancement For the past ten years, hundreds of Triad families have gathered at Triad Park on the second Saturday morning in October. They come out early in the morning, wearing handmade t-shirts, bringing friends...
Jun 9, 2013 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Religion, Single Parenting
By Debbie Wilkins “Don’t make me a single mom. You know I couldn’t handle it.” This was the phrase I always told my husband Aaron before he’d go on camping excursions. These words now ring eerily in my mind. Because I am now a single mom. My husband of 11 years, the...
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