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By Sherrie Cassel I begin a new decade; the last one was the most difficult of my life. As those of you who follow this blog know, I lost my son and only child six and a half years ago. Those years were spent groveling before a god I wasn’t sure I believed in anymore.Continue reading “When it’s time”

By Sherrie Cassel I’ve worked hard to get to the other side of the gargantuan mountain of grief to a place of victory and then to a return to a life in which grief is no longer the guiding force. Grief no longer compels me to spill my guts about the loss of my sonContinue reading “Balanced Reciprocity”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel The world is a wonderful-horrible place, or more specifically, in life, there is beauty and there is indescribable pain, and sometimes human nature turns on itself, and becomes self-destructive. This week in response to the massacre in Uvalde, TX, there have been a variety of responses, always polarizing. What else isContinue reading “The Little Engine that Could”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel What is the hair of the dog for a grief hangover? Yesterday was Mother’s Day in the United States. For those of us who are mothers or mother figures, we were celebrated yesterday. Mothers whose children have died, especially those who have lost their only child, wonder where we fit inContinue reading “When Mother’s Day Ends”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel One of the greatest books I read during the tumultuous addiction years with my son was by Daphne Rose Kingma, 10 Things to do When Your World is Falling Apart. I thought the book was great while my son was alive, even though he was dreadfully ill from years of alcoholismContinue reading “Things to do when you’re grieving — Hard”

By Sherrie Cassel In the grief walk, I have seen others and I have seen it in myself, the sheer gumption to heal, in spite of all the shit that has happened in our lives, both sad and joyful, both emotionally healthy and some still struggling from trauma, we are strong spirited; we had noContinue reading “Catching a Light Breeze”

By Sherrie Cassel From February 8, 2016 There were three of us there tonight — three women who have something terrible in common. We all lost sons — when they were very young. Angelica lost Oscar when he was only 7. Irene lost Louie when he was 13. And, I lost my 32 year oldContinue reading “6 Years in the Blink of an Eye”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel Tomorrow is the six-year anniversary of my son’s death. I choose to mourn today. I’ve been listening to music and sharing my heart on my Facebook page, and I woke my husband (sick with COVID – fully vaccinated) and told him that my heart hurts today. Through the tears I’m revvingContinue reading “Six Years”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel “Life is just a lesson Time is a perception Love will cure depression This is my confession You are my obsession You are my obsession You are my obsession[…] “You are My Obsession” ~Trevor Something~ (sic) What can be worse than the occasional time of retrospection? Rumination. After my son died,Continue reading “Ruminating on that Glad Day”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel This blog was originally developed to share my secrets for how to navigate grief, how to tame it, how to make it work for you, and how to work joy back into your life. I’ve mostly done that; I hope. I’ve been tangential and discussed things that have nothing to doContinue reading “Mourning into Dancing”