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Permission To Grieve - #4 Advice
Although grief was always present I never gave grief my time or attention. The only time I acknowledged that I was experiencing grief was when I could no longer pretend that I was “fine.”
Grief Is Not on a Linear Timeline
Once you hear the words “Your child is Autistic.” You may feel like your world has been shattered or you may feel relief to know what you have suspected all along. For me it was daunting to hear that my son was going to live with a lifelong disability.
Walking Through Grief
It felt like a death for me. The son I gave birth to three years earlier had a completely different future than the son I was holding after our diagnosis. He was the same light that filled my heart, but now his future seemed daunting. I had no idea what to do or what our lives would look like moving forward. My grief was huge, messy, and painful.
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The days following hearing the words “Joseph is autistic,” were some of my darkest days. I was living with the deepest pain I had felt in my 32 years of life. It was my first life tsunami. I didn’t know the way out to find the light. It felt like instantly being lost and not knowing which way to go.