Kierra Taplin: Healing by Helping Others

Do you ever find yourself thinking of ways to help other parents who are also going through the experience of infant loss? As you know, this is one of the key strategies that I use to keep my daughter…

February 28, 2017

Find Places for the Love to Go

When we lose someone, we are suddenly cut off from all the ways we expressed our love for them and from all the ways we planned to love them for the rest of our lives. I believe this is one…

January 18, 2017

Intentions for a Grieving Mom

What does the end of 2016 mean to you? For me, the arrival of the New Year brings up a lot of mixed emotions.  Little fact about me: I used to loooove New Years. It was (and perhaps still…

January 5, 2017

Dealing with Upsetting Questions after Loss

This one question has saved me from countless painful, frustrating, offensive conversations with friends, family and total strangers. So I feel compelled to share it with you now. Why now? Because this time of year can force us to…

December 14, 2016

The Myth of Healing after Loss

I dislike the word healing.  I use it out of necessity at times, but only because there doesn’t seem to be a suitable alternative.  I couldn’t put my finger on it, but there was something about the word that…

November 15, 2016

Your Grief = Your Rules

Grief is confusing.  It’s disorientating and it’s messy.  And that can make it really hard to express what we need and to set boundaries with friends and family. This isn’t just confusing for us.  It’s also confusing for those…

November 8, 2016

The Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Life & Loss

November First is known as Day of the Innocents in Mexico and is dedicated to children who have died.   This is part of the Dia de Los Muertos celebration, where death & life intermingle for five days of festivities.…

November 1, 2016

How to cope with “Why?”

Why? It’s the question that haunts us all after loss.    It takes over our thoughts, highjacks our focus and robs us of sleep.   It tortures us with it’s pursuit of all the most unanswerable questions, often forming a…

October 25, 2016

Does your loss make your friends uncomfortable?

Are you surrounded by awkward silence whenever the topic of your lost little one comes up?  If you are, you are not alone, even though it often feels that way, I know. After I lost my daughter it sometimes…

October 18, 2016

In limbo between life and loss?

Grief is a state of existing between the living and the lost. We desperately crave being with our lost loved ones and of course we want to hang onto to them as much as possible.  At the same time,…

October 10, 2016