by Brenda MacIntyre | Jul 4, 2023 | Grief & Loss
How is it that grief is just a natural part of life, but society’s way of dealing with it is to avoid it at all costs? For covid-conscious women, finding grief support is as complicated as the grief we are facing. Every time I ask myself how humanity has sunk to...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Nov 9, 2021 | Grief & Loss
We have been fed a very big lifelong lie… that grief is bad and either we need to “get over it” (stuff it and pretend we’re fine way too early) or have people doting on us trying to “fix” us. It’s a vicious circle that stems from another big lie: that we are supposed...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Oct 13, 2021 | Grief & Loss
When it comes to pain, women are like cats. My cat Pixie has been dealing with a skin infection ever since May this year. At first I didn’t even know anything was wrong… because cats and women are similar in how they deal with pain. You will rarely know when they are...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Oct 15, 2019 | Grief & Loss
Grief and chronic pain can take you places. Places most people would never dare to go. Most of us spend our lifetime avoiding pain because of course, who wants to feel pain? But some of us don’t have that luxury because pain is part of our everyday lives, for months,...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Sep 4, 2019 | Grief & Loss, Mental Health
TRIGGER WARNING & RESOURCES: The video above has my candid story and some of my healing music designed for grief and survivors of homicide loss like me. The article below is an additional resource for survivors of grief, gun violence, murder and homicide loss, and...
by Brenda MacIntyre | May 14, 2019 | Grief & Loss
Trigger warning: suicide, murder, parental and child loss. My journey with grief began when I was just 15. If I go back to my birth, the grief would’ve begun with my biological mother giving me up for adoption the moment I was born. When I was 15, my (adoptive) mom...
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