Sarah Harrison-Cragg, MSW, RSW

09/10/2025

09/08/2025

In the beginning, our children need us to hold them steady — to be the arms that carry, the presence that protects, the safe place that doesn’t move when everything else feels uncertain.

But as they grow, what they need shifts.

They don’t need us to shield them from every wave. They need us to show them how to navigate. To step back just enough so they can feel their own strength, while knowing we’re still close enough to turn to.

That’s the quiet evolution of parenthood: we don’t stop being their home. We stop being the walls that hold them in, and start becoming the light that helps them find their way back.

Because home isn’t a place they outgrow. It’s a presence they carry — one that steadies them when they’re small, and guides them when they’re grown.

We don’t raise them to need us forever. We raise them to move through life knowing we are with them, even when we’re not beside them. ❤️

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09/08/2025

09/07/2025

I heard something today that felt like someone quietly rearranged the furniture in my soul.

Gabor Maté, in a conversation with Mel Robbins on her podcast, said:
“No two children grow up in the same home. Even with the same parents.”

And he’s right.
By the time each child is born, the people raising them have already changed.
A father may be softer now, or more guarded.
A mother may be freer, or more worn.
The marriage may be blooming… or quietly cracking.
Money might be scarce, or finally enough to breathe.

And then there’s *us*—the children.
We come with different hearts, different fears, different ways of hearing the same words.
One child feels loved in the quiet; another feels abandoned in it.
One thrives under structure; another wilts.
The same hug, the same house, the same parents—yet completely different worlds.

It made me think about the stories we carry.
How we assume we all lived the same childhood because we shared a roof.
But we didn’t.

We were each raised by a different version of our parents… a version shaped by time, by trials, by joy, by fatigue.

And maybe part of growing up - truly growing up - is making peace with this.
To forgive the versions of our parents who couldn’t give more.
To honor the versions who somehow gave anyway.
And to understand that the love was real, even when it looked nothing alike.

Because you see, love isn’t static.
It’s a living thing, it's changing, faltering and blooming; just like the people who give it.

Here’s my video reflection and excerpts of the interview: https://youtube.com/shorts/l3NUPuoX5AM

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08/02/2025

Grief

Growing Around Grief

Grief doesn’t simply pass with time; it reshapes you.
At first, it fills every corner of your life, leaving no space for anything else.
But slowly, you begin to grow around it.

Grief does not vanish, it remains, a part of you,
but your life expands to hold both the sorrow
and the possibility of joy again.

You are not who you were before the loss;
you are someone new,
carrying the weight of love in a different form.

Grief changes your heart, your priorities,
and the way you see the world,
not by erasing the pain,
but by teaching you how to live alongside it.

~ 'Growing Around Grief' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art Unknown via Pinterest

03/07/2025

Love this.
Created by Lois Tonkin.

02/04/2025

So true. And some of those you assume will show up do not.
It’s so strange.

02/01/2025

If you haven’t discovered Mel Robbins yet, I encourage you to look her up…Insta reels, podcast, YouTube, and her fantastic new book The Let Them theory

02/01/2025

Crying is your body’s natural release. It resets your nervous system and puts you into a parasympathetic state. I give myself 10 minutes of tears, then keep moving forward. Your body will thank you

02/01/2025

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Be gentle on yourself.

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