by Karen Creamer | May 1, 2018 | Being BRAVE, books, Brave books, Catching women being brave, Clarity, Comfort, family, Interviews, relationships, The BRAVE Interviews
Welcome to this month’s BRAVE Interview with Melanie Delorme!
I am a teacher, a wife, a mother, an author who was given the role of bereaved mom in 2008 when my 8-year-old son, Garrett, was accidentally shot and killed in a hunting accident.
It would have been so easy to allow this horrific experience to define me as a grief-stricken mom for the rest of my life. I’m not sure how long it took me to realize that Garrett deserved a better legacy than that.
I also realized that healing and moving forward was my choice.
I try to choose every day to celebrate Garrett’s life and to remember that knowing him for eight years made me a better person.
I spent a lot of time writing in a journal during the first few years after Garrett’s death. I have since turned my writing into a book and published it. It is entitled, After the Flowers Die: A Handbook of Heartache, Hope and Healing After Losing a Child. I do not want any bereaved parent to ever feel alone. I have recently created a website, promoted my book at book signings, participated in my first TV interview, participated in a live grief webinar. Currently I am working on creating a journaling course for grieving parents. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Mar 16, 2018 | Clarity, Comfort, health
I was receiving a distance energy healing session yesterday when something the healer said brought up a memory of a past event.
When I was twelve, we had a rule about going to a friend’s house: if the parents weren’t there, I wasn’t allowed to go. Period. I knew not to even bother trying to argue the point. So, one day my friend invited me over after school. I knew her parents were both elsewhere, but I heard myself saying, “Sure!” and I went anyway.
They had a free-standing couch and while I was talking to my friend, I was standing behind it with my forearms resting on the back of it. I thought it would be fun to pick my feet up off the floor, allowing my weight to cause the couch to start to tip backward and then put my feet back down right at the last minute to keep it from actually tipping over. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Mar 8, 2018 | Clarity, Comfort, Connection, health
I am working on losing weight (yes, still; yes again) and it occurred to me that although misery loves company, maybe victory does, too.
Also, I know that accountability is a very important component of achieving any goal–at least, I’ve discovered this truth applies to me.
I decided a week ago that it was time to dust off my Weight Watchers food scale.
I am a health coach and I talk to people every day who say they want to weigh less, but they are not really doing much (if anything) about it. I offer to help them and they decline. Why do they do this?
Because they already know how to do it.
And, let’s face it. Isn’t that the truth? We already know (probably on many levels) what is best for us. We just don’t act on that information. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Jan 8, 2018 | Clarity, Comfort, Connection, health
It’s hard to imagine the unthinkable, the loss of a child.
Unless you don’t have to imagine it.
Unless it has happened to you.
Then you don’t have to imagine it. You are living with it every single day.
Two women who have been through want to help others who have also experienced this unfathomable loss get through it, too.
“Laura Diehl is known for extending a light of hope to bereaved parents. Through her writing, speaking, and coaching, she walks with grieving parents in their place of darkness, without judgment or shame, to learn how to live a life of meaning and purpose again. Laura found herself in a place of suffocating darkness after the death of her daughter, Becca, with no one to turn to for help in navigating out of the deep pit of grief. Today, as a bereaved mom living a life of fulfillment, purpose, and destiny, Laura invests her time in helping grieving parents journey from a place of brokenness to becoming a re-purposed vessel in a way that honors the life of their child, instead of living in the shadow of their child’s death.” Laura Diehl’s books are available here and wherever books are sold. Keep reading
Karen Creamer
