Pain vs. Suffering
I’ve spent the last two weeks really deep diving into my grief, trying to figure out how to get out of this limbo stage of living in my...
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Kristy C
Apr 244 min read
Pain and Suffering
Trigger Warning (TW): Suicide For weeks and weeks after Tim passed, I would put my shoes on, put Sadie on her leash and walk past the...
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Kristy C
Apr 113 min read
Death Changed Me
Death changes people, all kinds of death and all kinds of people. Changed, forever. I am learning that widows are a different breed....
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Kristy C
Feb 63 min read
Intrusive Thoughts
Disclaimer: I will be talking about my experience with suicide and details about Tim’s death. If you find these to be hard topics, I...
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Kristy C
Jan 247 min read
We never truly know what someone is going through
Disclaimer, I will be talking about suicide, I will be talking about bi-polar disorder, I will be talking about mania and survivors of...
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Kristy C
Jan 142 min read
Smiling through it
I saw a quote the other day that said, ‘I smile to stop myself from crying’ and I felt that. Following that I saw one that said, ‘You...
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Kristy C
Dec 27, 20234 min read
Survival Mode
This phrase can mean so many things. When I think about survival mode, I think about doing what we have to, in order to keep going....
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Kristy
Nov 26, 20234 min read
I can’t believe it’s been five months
These last five months have felt like the longest five months of my life but at the same time feels like just yesterday. It feels like...
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Kristy
Nov 14, 20232 min read
Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
This year Survivors of Suicide Loss Day happens to fall on my birthday, November 18th. How appropriate, right? At first, I was I was...
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Kristy
Oct 31, 20237 min read
Survivor's Grief
This is where I am and this is where I am stuck. For some reason I can’t move passed this and today I googled how long does it take to...
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Kristy
Oct 13, 20235 min read
Guilt and Grief
Guilt: Feeling responsible or regretful for a perceived offense, real or imaginary. Survivors Guilt: A person may experience survivor's...
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Kristy
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Learning to live again...
93 days… 93 days without the love of my life. Today marks three months that you left this earth and it feels like just yesterday when my...
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Kristy
Sep 14, 20234 min read
Grief is Hard
Losing anyone is hard. I've experienced a lot of loss in my life; family, friends, co-workers, pets, etc. but nothing has ever compared...
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Kristy
Sep 5, 20233 min read
Underneath it all...
A sweet friend of mine posted something the other day that hit me to the core. She has recently come out on the upside of battling stage...
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Kristy
Aug 20, 20234 min read
Failed by the System: Part 2 Reflection
After I wrote my last blog about being failed by a specific “mental health” facility, I had so much anger in me. I am resentful towards...
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Kristy
Aug 6, 20235 min read
You Can Do Hard Things...
Often in the last six years or so I would constantly tell myself “you can do hard things”. I would tell Tim this on occasion too when he...
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Kristy
Jul 21, 20234 min read
Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
Whenever Charlie Brown said this, it was his way of saying ‘bummer’. If you don't know who Charlie Brown is, we will save that for...
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Kristy
Jul 6, 20239 min read
HOME TEAM BABY!
Tim and I had this saying whenever things got tough, HOMETEAM! It was our little reminder to each other that when things got hard or we...
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