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Diagnoses Date

October 5, 2019 by Bryan Martin 1 Comment

We all know the dreaded dates. The anniversary of their death, birthdays, togetherness anniversaries, holidays but there’s one more on my list that adds another dark mark on my year – His diagnosis date.Tin just felt off like he had the flu or something. No strange symptoms. No sudden pains. Just an off feeling. He did complain that he felt…

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When Their Truth Hits

March 23, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

I’ve had very few visitors since Tin passed away. I don’t know if the reason is avoidance, being unsure of how I’ll be with guests or just that life goes on and we become too busy for the little things.  Approaching the first anniversary of Tin’s passing, as the warmer month’s and spring break approaches, I’m starting to get the calls…

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All the Things We Didnt Do

January 4, 2019 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

This past week, some married friends went away on a family vacation, and asked me and Nick if we could stay at their house for 5 days while they were gone, dog-sitting and house-sitting. We were both happy to do it. Not only did it help our friends out, but it also gave us an opportunity to spend some quality alone time together. Without getting…

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Robbed of his 37th Birthday

March 5, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

This morning I woke up and was unexpectedly very teary.  I’ve had a great week, I’ve been on holidays, started studying again, enjoyed some really happy moments with family and friend and feel like I’m in a good place.  Yet here they were, the sadness and the anger, paying me an unwelcome and un-invited visit.  Then I remembered, this coming…

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A Different Experience of Missing Him

February 26, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m interstate at the moment celebrating a dear friend’s 40th birthday. She lives on the other side of the country (I live in Brisbane, Queensland and she lives in Perth, in Western Australia).  I’ve been here to visit a number of times now, it’s a great opportunity to have a holiday and see another part of Australia while catching up with my…

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Good Widowing

January 30, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m feeling quite proud of myself today.  I’ve been going through a bit of a tough patch in the past couple of weeks yet despite this, I’ve been riding it well.  If there is such a thing as ‘good widowing’ then I think I deserve some kind of gold star.  I guess, what I’ve really noticed this past week, is that when the familiar feelings of ‘this…

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All I Can Be, For Now

January 23, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

Well, no doubt about it, I’ve had a tough week.  Following the birth of my best friend’s baby last weekend, which I assisted with, I knew it was inevitable that an emotional crash would follow such a confronting experience. Having a front row seat for someone else’s transformation into the role of mother was more difficult than I’d feared. …

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Witnessing New Life

January 16, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’ve mentioned a few times in the past couple of months that my best friend and her husband were having a baby.  Well, this morning, at 4:30am, their beautiful baby girl entered the world and I was privileged to be there to help.  It was a long, sleepless, emotional and exhausting night and I’m struggling to find the words to explain both what an…

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Setting my Goal for 2016

January 2, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m not really one for New Years resolutions however at the start of every year, I do like to put a lot of thought into setting myself a goal for the coming twelve months. When Dan died from depression in July 2013, leaving me as a young, newly-wedded widow, my focus turned to just surviving.   That first five or six months was a blur and when…

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Hopefully, in Time

December 26, 2015 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

So another Christmas has passed us by, my third without my husband.  Initially, I felt like this one was going to be a bit easier than my past two, and I guess in some ways it was.   However despite enjoying the festive build-up, the Christmas parties, house-decorating and gift-buying, the heaviness in my heart on Christmas day was unavoidable. A…

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A Fear I Can’t Ignore

December 19, 2015 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m going to let you in on a little secret… one that I’m not even sure I’ve fully admitted to myself.   I’m scared. My best friend is due to have her first baby in less than five weeks and I’m starting to feel absolutely petrified about it.   Amidst all the excitement and happiness over the past few months that has surrounded her pregnancy,…

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An Empty Ritual

December 12, 2015 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

My Christmas tree is up.  It nearly didn’t happen.  Again.  I had that moment where I didn’t see the point, with the same questions I’ve asked myself for the preview two years since he passed.   I thought ‘I live alone, I won’t even be here on Christmas day – I’ll be at my sister’s house.  It’s so depressing to decorate a tree on your own, why…

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