A new phase of healing
Here we are again, another Christmas update from us (i.e., the selective yearly highlights of what we want to remember and purposeful omissions of what we'd rather forget). Highlights : Healing. While moving to Indiana gave me an immediate reprieve from the constant reminder of losing our kids, I had what I can only describe as a "relapse" of acute grief. After several months of feeling immobilized, I found an incredible therapist who - among other things - has used brainspotting (a type of EMDR ) to help me move through it. I have found myself grateful to be crying again, knowing that these things have been hiding for a while under more pressing feelings and life events. Healing is such a strange and nuanced process. Growing. As part of all this hard emotional work, I'm also still writing. I have written a series of funny picture books about the grieving process. They are books I wish I had for my own children after we lost our kids, since the LAST thing...
