7 Truths No One Tells You After You Lose a Child

Nobody prepares you for what happens after your child dies. What happens after the funeral is over and the world expects you to keep living?!

People will tell you to stay strong, time heals your wounds, and that God knows best. But no one talks about how angry you become, the guilt that consumes you, the numbness, the way you smile in public and fall apart when you're alone, and the way losing your child can also make you lose yourself, too. 

Whether you are newly grieving or years into your journey, 7 Truths No One Tells You After You Lose a Child offers comfort, validation, and the strength to keep breathing through the pain. These pages hold the conversations that grieving mothers usually cry about in silence. These are some of the thoughts people are too uncomfortable to talk about. It's the pain that follows you home after the funeral is over and everyone else goes back to living their lives.

This is for the mother who is trying her hardest to survive something that never should have happened, questioning God, pretending to be okay, carrying guilt for still breathing, and wondering if and when life will ever feel normal again.

You're not crazy, you're grieving...

And even in the middle of all of your pain... You are still a mother.