The core problem with the new DSM-5 labeling is best illustrated in this quote:

If as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t - if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake up each morning thinking, ‘I cannot continue to live,’ - well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease.  We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.

 Cheryl Strayed, American author

Project Heal Prayer Flag event begins June 23rd and goes thru August 19th.

#ReturnToZero If you or someone you know has been impacted by #babyloss then be sure to see this film starring Minnie Driver and Paul Adelstein. Coming Soon to theaters.

Grasping At Shadows; Breaking The Silence; Aching in Your Absent Presence!

#BreakingTheSilence #BabyLoss #StillbornStillLoved @AngelofHopeNM

return-to-zero-sofla:

From Carrie at the STILL Project: “The Hollywood machine doesn’t think people will pay to see Return To Zero in theaters. And they’ve started to say so. So far over 60,000 people around the world have said they are wrong. I am one of them, but we need a lot more. And I’m asking you to become another one.

If the experience of stillbirth, SIDS, miscarriage or other form of infant death has not affected you, I guarantee you it has affected someone you know and they’re just not talking about it because they don’t have a safe place to. This film can change that. Not only is it concerning an important topic, it stands on it’s own in the world of film. Co-star Alfred Molina says that it’s “one of the most moving pieces of art I have ever experienced.”

Please take one minute, fill out this pledge form which says you would see RTZ in the theater. Won’t cost you a cent to stand with us right now.

Thank you to all who have pledged already. Please spread the word!”

return-to-zero-sofla:

#babyloss #breakthesilence #returntozero

petitpoulailler:

fleurdulys: 1888 Carl Gutherz (Swiss/American; 1844-1907) ~ Lux Incarnationis

Tomb of John Bunyan (1628-1688), author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, at Bunhill Fields Cemetery in Islington, London.

Lighting candles of remembrance for my sweet butterflies who flitter amidst the angels in the the Lord’s Butterfly Meadows…

cemeteryconservation:

Grave for the first Bishop of Mississippi located behind St. Mary’s Basilica, Natchez, MS

But for the Joy set before Him, Jesus endured the Cross… Hebrews 12:2

Our Darling (x)