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Bittersweet Baby
No one warned me how bittersweet the last baby would be. The joy. The finality. The aching knowledge that every first is also a last....

Melissa Blum
6 hours ago2 min read
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Learning to Grieve: How the Small Losses Prepare Us for the Big Ones
What if the small losses were grief too? Meet Tenderings—soft, subtle moments that teach us how to hold what life asks us to let go.

Melissa Blum
7 days ago2 min read
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Between the First Breath and Final Goodbye
There are two thresholds we rarely walk with ease: The one that marks life’s beginning, and the one that marks its end. Motherhood and...

Melissa Blum
Apr 222 min read
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The Seasons We Don’t Speak Of - A Grief Reflection
We talk of weddings and babies, but not of death and endings. A call to honour the silent seasons we all eventually face.

Melissa Blum
Apr 161 min read
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