by donnaheck | Jun 3, 2025 | child loss, grief, Love, suicide prevention
“I know, let’s have a big family,” I thought as we planned for a fourth child. With that in mind I have a vivid memory of driving Dani, age 9, to swim practice, along with that fourth child tucked in her car seat distracting us all. Dani’s friend, who is doing her...
by donnaheck | Feb 10, 2024 | child loss, child loss, grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention, suicide prevention month
After hours of praying and pacing you’ve just experienced one of the BEST DAYS EVER-the joyful news of the birth of your beautiful and precious grandchild. You’re reeling with so much love and joy that this little one’s arrival has once again taken your breath away....
by donnaheck | Dec 4, 2023 | child loss, grief, suicide awareness, suicide prevention
I just finished a post for our nonprofit and the last line simply smacked me right in the face: SUNDAY NIGHT LIES. I’m sure many of you reading this understand what that means. You’re lying in bed trying to go to sleep and all of a sudden your brain starts telling you...
by donnaheck | May 8, 2022 | child loss
Mother’s Day has always brought many emotions for me at various times of my life. Speaking with friends I believe it is a universal feeling. I had what feels like a lifetime of Mother’s Day celebrations focusing on my own amazing mother and have many cherished...
by donnaheck | Dec 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Each day brings something new to the mental health journey of grief I tread. The ups and downs of my own feelings of losing a child in her prime and interjecting those feelings with the excitement and joy of the upcoming Christmas Holiday, gives me conflicting...
