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Grief & Loss

“The holidays were never about material things—they were, and always will be, about family and love.”

By Liz Prives
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“We were ecstatic to have a baby joining our family, but we also consciously made space to acknowledge our previous pain.”

By Jen Kerns
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Grief & Loss

“Maria has always had a special place in our family and she always will.”

By Laura Gould Crandall
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Grief & Loss

"No one else felt the weight of carrying on family history."

By Amber Gross
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“If I didn’t pull this off, my family was gone. So I gave it everything I had.”

By Vernon Turner
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Grief & Loss

“Each day that I get out of bed, smile, and laugh with my family is a true gift that I don't take lightly.”

By Karen Peloquin
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Divorce & Family Challenges

Getting Through Family Crises

Divorce, struggling to have children, family rejection-challenges like these can be disorienting and devastating. Here you can connect with others who are going through the same thing.

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Grief & Loss

“When we lose someone we love, we should remember that the person has not become nothing.”

By Kevin Krim
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Grief & Loss

"I remember what it is like to feel as if I am drowning. But I also realize that I am capable of kicking back to the surface."

By Catherine Jones
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“When I was 15, I found out I was pregnant. I just didn’t want to believe it.”

By Guadalupe Valencia
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Grief & Loss

What I’ve learned over the 19 Christmases since my husband died

By Katie Couric
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Health, Illness & Injury

Finding new appreciation for Mother's Day after illness

By Jennifer Holmstoen Lee
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Raising Resilient Kids

“We decided he would be a boy with Type 1 diabetes, not a diabetic.”

By Monique Greene
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Incarceration

"I remain committed to defining my own future rather than allowing it to be" defined for me.

By Christopher Poulos
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Abuse & Sexual Assault

“Today, I am not a victim. I am a thriving survivor. But I know that I will be recovering for the rest of my life.”

By Lauren Book
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Grief & Loss

“In grief, there’s no need for answers.”

By Sarah Haufrect
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Health, Illness & Injury

The holidays are hard if you struggle with mental illness—don’t blame yourself

By Kesha
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Health, Illness & Injury

“The hardest part was realizing that my life would be put on pause.”

By Layth Ramatala
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Incarceration

“Though the holidays are still the toughest time, I have an incredible support system to help me stay strong.”

By Heidi
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Grief & Loss

“Taking action to put good into the world after suffering so much pain was one small way we began our healing process.”

By Alissa Parker
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Grief & Loss

“I don’t believe grief ever goes away; it simply changes shape over time.”

By Jen Spencer Reid
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Health, Illness & Injury

"Now I feel like forever moving forward I will be more capable of 'showing up' for those who need me."

By Hilary Weisfeld
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Grief & Loss

“The biggest lesson I’ve learned thus far is to wake up each day and show up and be present.”

By Tricia Halbert
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Grief & Loss

"My mother was a remarkable woman. She was a fighter and hard worker and never complained about being tired or not feeling well."

By Joann Falciani
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“She just sat there and listened—and that meant a lot.”

By Leticia Velilla
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Grief & Loss

“As an artist, I looked for creative opportunities to celebrate and commune with his memory even more.”

By Jennifer Orkin Lewis
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Health, Illness & Injury

Grief may change some holiday traditions, but you can create new ones

By Robin Roberts
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Abuse & Sexual Assault

“My terrible past has given me tools to help young people. I am thankful that I can use my experience to help others.”

By Julio Cruz
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“My son could have been in a gang, my daughter could have been pregnant. We defied all statistics.”

By Stephanie Hughes
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Grief & Loss

“Trouble was created by an innocent child who had experienced profound loss.”

By Sheila Duncan
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Divorce & Family Challenges

Redefining Father’s Day after my husband’s arrest

By Kristen Boulard
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Health, Illness & Injury

“My greatest joy now is just being able to wake up in the morning. On August 5, 2012, I wasn't so sure that would happen.”

By Brian Murphy
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Health, Illness & Injury

“My grandma told me that once I shake someone’s hand, my disability goes away.”

By Kyle Maynard
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Grief & Loss

Paying homage to my dad on Father’s Day

By Abby Fabiaschi
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Grief & Loss

“Dear Rebecca and Casey, love really is as boundless as the sky.”

By Nancy Sharp
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Grief & Loss

"Resilience is found when you overcome the ego and let go, surrendering to a greater plan."

By Alison Fiorini
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Grief & Loss

“I’ve come to realize that our time and the time we have with others are limited. We don’t have a choice.”

By Antonietta Gutierrez
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Grief & Loss

“It makes me feel great that my girls witnessed my resilience, and saw me build something for myself.”

By Stacy Feintuch
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Grief & Loss

"I felt that visiting there together was required—a further gesture to honour the place that both men have in my heart."

By Clare Smart
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Grief & Loss

“In only 14 years, my mom taught me everything I need to know for my life.”

By Wiebke Frömchen
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“I’m passionate about saving other women from the kind of suffering my mom endured.”

By Suzanne Crociati
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Grief & Loss

“I’d always been the moon to my mom’s bright shining sun. How do you live without the sun?”

By Christa Fletcher
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“My brother died, filled with love and the hope of saving his daughter.”

By Monica Woo
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Grief & Loss

“I still miss my dad every day. But I think he’d be proud of what I’ve accomplished.”

By Genevieve Liu
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Health, Illness & Injury

“I took a deep breath and did not harm myself that night. Running saved my life.”

By Jackson K
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“I decided to give the man I still loved so deeply an ultimatum: get help or the children and I will leave.”

By Sharon Pereira
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Grief & Loss

“I don’t want to see my new path of finding what feels good and helping others as an Option B, but rather as my new Option A.”

By ute amann-seidel
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Grief & Loss

“I can’t control what comes downstream, I can only try to manage the flow.”

By Carla Steckman
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Grief & Loss

“I have to keep going for the kids, but more than that, I’m sustained by the thought that I mustn’t let George down.”

By Karla Reid
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Grief & Loss

“And I don't want anyone to forget about Jesse. He isn't ‘lost.’ He was murdered.”

By Scarlett Lewis
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Raising Resilient Kids

“I can’t imagine getting through this without her. Even when I feel hopeless, I draw on her strength to keep going.”

By Jessica Segal
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Resilience

“I believed that I could do anything, no matter how preposterous it seemed.”

By Stephen Thompson
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Grief & Loss

“To me, my mother defines resilience. She had such strong faith and was a very giving and positive person.”

By Mary Barra
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Grief & Loss

“Helping other families gives us a focus beyond our own pain.”

By Isabel Hernandez-Torres
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Grief & Loss

“Grief is a long path, and I want to live it in peace for myself, my loved ones, and for my father's soul.”

By Daniela Felletti
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Resilience

Giving back to survivors of natural disasters

By Chanell Alaniz
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Grief & Loss

"We grieve because we love. How lucky we are to have experienced that love."

By Jahanvi Sardana
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Incarceration

“Doing kind things for strangers made me feel better about what we had been through.”

By Chana Marie Wynne-Swan
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Grief & Loss

Paying tribute to my lost son on Mother’s Day

By Robert Mehnert
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Resilience

Creating a new normal after 9/11

By Denise Olsen
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Resilience

Celebrating Mother’s Day with two dads

By Jean Azar-Tanguay
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“I am a proud mother of seven. And nobody can take that away from me.”

By Stephanie Zibell
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Grief & Loss

Becoming a mother, after losing mine

By Sarah Rasheed
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Grief & Loss

“As I got better, I started to feel that it was time to give back.”

By Mariane Maciel
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Resilience

“I wasn't going to break or die or disappear. I was stronger than I knew.”

By Rachel Spielman
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Divorce & Family Challenges

Living After Infertility Resolution

A community where people experiencing infertility can discuss the family building and treatment paths they've chosen.

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Divorce & Family Challenges

Finding a Resolution for Infertility

A community where people dealing with infertility can discuss family building and treatment options.

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Divorce & Family Challenges

“I am still terrified of the future, but I am a strong woman and I'll figure it out as I always do.”

By MJ Ricaurte
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“I got the greatest help from an unexpected source—my amazing children.”

By Alan Roman
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Divorce & Family Challenges

"Grief has overstayed his visit. I am done living in the dirt."

By Stephanie Sarazin
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“It was a serendipitous moment of clarity that seemed to break through the pillar of strength I had created.”

By Kelsey Leighton
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“Allow yourself to feel everything you’re feeling right now. Let the hurt move through you. Then you can move on.”

By Shane Snow
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Divorce & Family Challenges

RESOLVE Support Groups

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Groups that offer information and emotional support to people dealing with infertility.

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Grief & Loss

"Having survived a tragedy, I now understand how to support others."

By Elizabeth Prives
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Grief & Loss

“When you go through a really hard time there are things that you can learn. And they make you stronger.”

By Gabrielle Reece
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Health, Illness & Injury

“We are not defined by what happens to us, but by how we choose to respond.”

By Turia Pitt
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Grief & Loss

“It was a long journey out of the darkness, but once I discovered what my purpose was I began to heal.”

By Heidi Horsley
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Grief & Loss

"In a way, this past year has felt more isolating than my first year as a member of the 'Dead Mom Club.'"

By Cassie Glenn
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Grief & Loss

“There will never be a day, a memory, or a moment as revered as picking March flowers in February with my dad.”

By April Butler
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Grief & Loss

"There was no making this better. Neither of us wanted that."

By Paula Morris
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Incarceration

“I worked hard to push past the feelings of anxiety and fear that threatened to overwhelm me.”

By Joel Williams
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Health, Illness & Injury

“What would you do if you knew that tomorrow you would no longer be healthy?”

By PAULA ALVES
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Health, Illness & Injury

Remembering with my mom, through her Alzheimer’s

By Heather Oglesby
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Health, Illness & Injury

“We continued to thrive to the extent possible because an army of loved ones held us fast through the tortured holiday season.”

By John Duberstein
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Grief & Loss

“There is both a harsh reality and a profound wisdom in accepting that some losses cannot be explained or redeemed.”

By Rachel Roth
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Raising Resilient Kids

“Since then I’ve thought of Penelope as ‘he.’...It was the best thing I could have done.”

By Jodie Patterson
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Grief & Loss

“She's always going to be in our memory. She's always going to be in our hearts.”

By Kyrie Irving, as told to The Shared Grief Project
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Grief & Loss

“I will keep breathing in and letting out—strongly, deeply. For him. Grief is something to love.”

By Kristin Loberg
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Resilience

Navigating Mother’s Day as a transgender woman

By Denise Brogan-Kator
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Grief & Loss

“Our pain links us to one another, inspiring compassion and reminding us that we are never alone.”

By Suzanne Guillette
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Grief & Loss

“My calm, steady, happy husband was now missing a part of himself. I wondered: Does that part ever grow back?”

By Bridget Chambers
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Health, Illness & Injury

“We’ve learned to ride the waves when the seas are the rockiest.”

By Sarah Hart
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Resilience

“I’ve left Syria, but I’m not free. The fight starts when you flee. But it doesn’t have an end.”

By Sana Mustafa
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Abuse & Sexual Assault

“I’ve got nothing to lose in trying to live the biggest life I can.”

By Kathy Andersen
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Grief & Loss

“It was never truly about a world with or without Kohen. It was about the 62 days I got to be his mom.”

By Jennifer Hetherington
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Resilience

"It was in these seemingly small breakthroughs and tiny glimpses of progress that my hope and faith began to be restored."

By Rebecca Galli
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Grief & Loss

Spending the first Father’s Day without my dad

By Matt Scott
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Grief & Loss

"There was nothing worse than watching my parents struggle with their own grief, and being afraid to bother them with mine."

By Peri Smith
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Grief & Loss

“We’ve turned the typical bucket list into a “f*cket list” and do things we would’ve otherwise passed on before.”

By Jason Fiorotto
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Health, Illness & Injury

“I am living proof that you can emerge from the other side of post-natal depression.”

By Angie O'Reilly
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