You Don’t Have To Be Grateful…
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry You don’t have to be grateful. We are thick in the season of gratitude. A holiday of thanks and abundance nearly upon us. There […]
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Monthly Blogs
What We Let Go Of
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry I let go of my idea of how my baby would be born. I let go of the notion of holding him to my breast,
What Can We Do
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry What Can We Do? For people who want to help when a baby dies Earlier this month at a family party, one of my husband’s
Round and Round Again: The Start of School Revisited
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry You know grief isn’t linear. But what shape, what path does it follow? For me, grief has been a spiral. I come round and
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At a Loss for Words
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry In the first months after Henry died, my husband and I found it hard to communicate. We both struggled with our words. We couldn’t come
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The Invisible Sibling
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry “You’re lucky you don’t have a brother.” The seven-year-old we had just met on the trail grumbled to my seven-year-old. No response, but the one
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Nobody to Blow Out the Candles—Finding Birthday Traditions after Your Baby Dies
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry Last year, as I spread the rich chocolate frosting on Henry’s birthday cake, the smoothness that wouldn’t be punctured and punctuated by candles broke me
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Is the Time Before Your Baby Died a Bittersweet Memory?
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry The sun was bright in my face, the soil warm and soft beneath my bare feet. My belly balanced on my thighs as I leaned
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On Trying Again
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry People tell me sometimes how courageous it was for us to try again. They wonder how we knew we were ready. We knew we weren’t
What Gets You Through
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry As I write this, I’m coming down off a sugar high from our first sugar shack visit of the season. Pancakes dotted with blueberries; crisp,
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