Life After Loss Grief Support

09/23/2025

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09/15/2025

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09/15/2025

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09/11/2025

In memory of 9/11, may we keep a candle burning to honor all those who lost their lives. 🕯️ We will Never Forget You!! 🇺🇸💔😔

08/26/2025

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08/15/2025

Still Near

Grief is an ache, a longing, a longing to be with the one we have lost.
But what if, they're not lost at all?
What if they have simply stepped into another room,
through a doorway made of light?

We cannot follow, not yet. But we can imagine.
They are there, where pain does not reach,
where time is kind,
where laughter lingers like music in the air.
Maybe they're sitting beneath a tree that blooms in every season,
watching the wind carry our love like petals on the breeze.

And sometimes, when the world is quiet,
we feel them.
Not in the past, but close,
in a moment, a memory,
a dream that feels too real to be only a dream.
Maybe that’s them, reminding us:
"I’m not gone. I’m just elsewhere. Still loving you. Still near.

~'Still Near' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by IllustNation_Nakata

08/07/2025

NATIONAL PURPLE HEART DAY 💜 Today, we honor and remember the men and women who have been wounded or killed in action while serving in the U.S. Military. https://bit.ly/4mrdCC7

07/25/2025

The most beautiful way we can honour those we’ve lost is by choosing to live fully—with purpose, joy, and courage— because in our hearts, we know that’s what they would want for us.

They may not walk beside us anymore,
but their love stays—quiet, steady, unshaken—
urging us forward, reminding us to embrace each day not in sorrow, but as a tribute to the life they lived and the light they left behind.

We hear them in our laughter.
We feel them in our strength.
We carry them in our dreams.

So we keep reaching—
for the sun breaking through the clouds, for meaning in the stillness, for hope when it feels fragile, and for the courage to become the people they always believed we could be.

And when we lift our eyes to the night sky,
we remember: they are there, like stars— watching over us, guiding us gently, reminding us that love never ends; it only changes form.

Every step we take with them in our hearts
becomes the living legacy of their love.

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Natasha Ann 🌸

07/18/2025

🤍anticipatory grief