Category: Guilt

Guilt in Grief: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date August 31, 2022
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Guilt in Grief That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve, If I’d only come to see, That might I future forward live To see all eternity. That I might know when and where somehow, And here and now then see, To erase the dark and stay the day, To bring back […]

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That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back-A Poem about Losing a Child

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date July 18, 2022
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Daddy Cat in Fall, My Forever Son

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Self-Blame and Guilt-I Couldn’t Save My Son

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date March 5, 2022
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A Record of Your Love, My Forever Son

Self-Blame and Guilt: I Couldn’t Save My Son I can’t stop thinking about how much he suffered—and my own inability to save him. Lori Gottlieb, “I Blame Myself for My Son’s Death,” The Atlantic, September 7, 2020 It’s been nearly 10 years since I lost my only son to suicide. Had someone suggested in my […]

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If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date February 8, 2022
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White Swan, My Forever Son

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“Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon”-A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date February 3, 2022
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"Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon" My Forever Son

Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon A Poem for Dylan by Beth Brown And once upon a blue-sky moon, We sailed our ships in your bedroom, With stars for light, we fled the dark But the lightening flashed, And the sky grew dark. You tucked away your childhood dreams On wings that soared beyond infinity, Your […]

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“When Someone is Too Bruised to Be Touched”-On Suicide and Despair

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date January 18, 2022
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Struggling with Guilt After Your Child’s Suicide: “A True Tale of 2 Mothers”

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date December 21, 2021
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Struggling with Guilt in Suicide Grief Parents of children who die by suicide often battle anadded type of guilt. Even if they do not blame themselvesfor not directly intervening in the suicidal act, they often feelguilt over some perceived mistake in raising their children.“Where did I go wrong?,” “I pushed them too hard.” and“If we […]

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A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide-“If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You”

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Post date December 16, 2021
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“If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You” by Beth Brown Bones bear girth where once, love birthed you, arms cradled and rocking, love holding me to you. If only a mother’s love could have saved you, been there to catch your fall tears stilled by the heavens to where now and forever, […]

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How Do You Fill the Hole in Your Heart When Your Child Dies by Suicide?

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date November 29, 2021
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Imagine Sunshine Imagine awakening to sunshine. Birds sing-songing their morning choruses. Joy in the nesting season. Joy in raising their young. The hardwood floor creaks its familiar sounds on the way to the kitchen where you are greeted by Cerelean blue and Schoolbus yellow walls. Ceramic red, green, and yellow chili peppers (which are all […]

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“When Someone Takes His Own Life”-Depression and Suicide

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Post date July 24, 2021
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“When Someone Takes His Own Life” Excerpt from “The Healing of Sorrow” Norman Vincent Peale In many ways, this seems the most tragic form of death. Certainly it can entail more shock and grief for those who are left behind than any other. And often the stigma of suicide is what rests most heavily on […]

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Is Suicide Really a Choice?

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date April 11, 2021
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The Stigma of Suicide That we must even ponder: “Is suicide really a choice?” reflects a still pervasive stigma of suicide that somehow, losing a loved one to death by suicide can be controlled–that losing a loved one could have, might have been prevented; that we missed something, a fatal flaw in the way we […]

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Got Grief? Myths, Fallacies, and Expectations

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Post date January 1, 2021
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“What if we never ‘get over’ certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we’re not supposed to? What if it takes a life time…?” Anne Lamott “It isn’t true that you have to get over it. It isn’t […]

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Easter Bunnies and Chocolate Eggs? Another Impossible Holiday

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date December 23, 2020
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Easter and Cusp of Spring: Holidays are Impossible Really Cusp of Spring Here the day promises to be beautiful. It is only 45 degrees now, but by this afternoon, it will be 71 degrees. Skies will be gray today, but you can feel the cusp of spring. The sun, through slated gray skies, breaks through—beckoning […]