Joy Comes Back
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry The first few notes of the song swelled. I felt the music, smiled, then felt my chest tighten with memory. I wanna be ready. Earlier […]
Being alive, afterwards.
I wrote it in the year after Charlotte’s birth, when I found writing in the third person to be the easiest way to tell my story. I called myself Clare,
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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
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Meet Our Board Member & Support Group Facilitator: Erika Parker!
Sierra’s feet My name is Erika and I have two children in my
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Making Space, Holding Light
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry Eight years after my son died, I still find myself bracing for December, wanting to retreat or hibernate. Wanting to jump right ahead to January
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Empty Arms, Full Heart
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry On a cold, dark evening in January 2008, barely a month after Henry died, I dragged myself out of my warm house, out of the
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Everything felt sacred.
The night was warm and dark as we pulled out from downtown Northampton, heading up the highway. It was just past 2 in the morning, less than 30 minutes since
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Meet Our Board Member & Support Group Facilitator: Lexi Walters Wright!
Oh, am I a lucky gal. I’ve had the great privilege over the last several years to be steeped in Empty Arms in a number of ways: As a facilitator
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How We Preserve What Was Lost
Hope in the Rough: Surviving Miscarriage & Challenges ConceivingBy Charlotte Capogna-Amias I have been thinking about miscarriage and the ways we remember and honor what was lost. Maybe heading into the
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Mindfulness and Sitting With the Reality of What Is
Hope in the Rough: Surviving Miscarriage & Challenges ConceivingBy Charlotte Capogna-Amias For the past three weeks I have been participating in an online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course. A group of
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