tgif!

Brené Brown in "The Gifts of Imperfection,” has inspired me to write a TGIF post each Friday: Trusting, Grateful, Inspired Fridays, to help me be more intentional about bringing joy back into my life after experiencing stillbirth.  What is your TGIF?  Happy Friday and I hope joy is part of your day.

For this week, here is my TGIF:

I am trusting that I am strong.  I am stronger than I ever thought and will continue to be so. 

I am grateful for friends who reach out to stay connected.

I am inspired by the good that other grieving mothers have done in their baby’s honor.  

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As fate would have it, my daily inspiration is so relevant to my feelings today: 

Grieving mothers are forced to be strong.  You have to pick yourself up and move forward with your life, even if you don’t want to.  I have learned that I am very strong but I wish I didn’t have to find out if I was strong or not.  I wish I could have gone through the rest of my life not knowing how strong I really was.  I wish I didn’t have to live with my loss day after day and navigate life as a bereaved mother.  Sometimes I get so mad that I have to be strong.  Strong is my only choice but I wish I could just be…normal.