Pain - Where Does It Go?
The pain of losing contact with your child doesn't sit still. It moves. It reaches. It looks for a place to go. And almost universally, it keeps reaching toward the same place: the person who caused it.

The pain of losing contact with your child doesn't sit still. It moves. It reaches. It looks for a place to go. And almost universally, it keeps reaching toward the same place: the person who caused it.

Reconciliation gets framed as the finish line, but what nobody tells you is that reconciliation can also be the beginning of a new kind of grief. One that is quieter, more confusing, and in some ways harder to explain.

There is a quieter kind of grief many women experience that rarely gets the same recognition.

Most parents carry an image - a felt sense of what the relationship with their child was going to be