Warrior Moms: Surviving Child Loss

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy When Christine McHenry, one of the founders of Warrior Moms of North Georgia, shares her journey through grief after the loss of her son Jamie at the young age of 13, it's impossible not to feel the weight of her love and sor...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Emily Simmons, just three months from retiring from the military, got a call no mother ever wants---her beloved son Darren had died in a car accident. Emily shares about her well-loved son and what that first terrible year looked...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Whether it's race car or unicorn themed, our children's birthdays are such joy for parents! Celebrating the life, love, and happiness of another year---(sigh)---(deep breath)---having your child's life gone too soon...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy The sudden loss of a friend can send shockwaves through the heart, leaving us to grapple with a grief that's as complex as it is profound. Our latest conversation takes you on a journey through the sorrow of losing someone wh...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Christi Howard, one of the Atlanta founding Warrior Moms, gave such a moving interview! From wisdom about how to give grace and seek help in early grief years, particularly on dark days to wisdom about mothering other children whi...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy One of the most amazing gifts I've ever been given is from a junior student of mine, Slater Nalley. He wrote a song called "Traces of You" in memory of Carter Davis and Natalie Henderson. I told my school's cha...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy We are so honored to have Courtney join us this week. She shares about her precious 2-year-old, book-loving, dinosaur-playing little boy, Miller. A medical emergency, a nightmare choice---Courtney shares her heartache but her silv...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy "It's only things" could not be further from the truth. The blanket, the stuffed animal, the sports helmet, and yes, even the favorite sweatshirt rarely washed---these things are the only physical items we have left...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Amy Durham shares about her 24-year old son Alec who went missing for 10 days and after a large police grid-search, he was found. She talks about his struggles with addiction and how this led to his final breath, yet it is certain...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Happy New Year, y'all! Amy and I are excited to start 2024, but also we have sadness, thinking about adding one more between when we last had moments with our child. Yet, we put one foot in front of the other and still find t...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Join us and two of our Warrior Moms, Christine McHenry and Robyn (Noe) Willis, as we talk about how we survived and how we find joy during the holidays while grieving our children. This is uplifting, and we hope you will listen! T...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy What a tribute to walking with faith! Cathy Semeria speaks about changing pain into ministry. To be witness to such love for her daughter and for God speaks of the ongoing love Tini provides. Cathy shares with us her joy in giving...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Rae Ann Gruver shares her love for her son Max, the tragedy of losing Max to fraternity hazing, and the strides she has made in educating colleges and parents about the deadly dangers of hazing. #FlyHighMax is their motto, which c...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Do you wonder what's going on with your friend who has lost a child? Do you make them sad when you ask about their child? How long should their grief last? Do you wonder what is normal with your own grief; do others feel the...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy To lose one child is unthinkable; Robyn Noe has lived through the loss of her two beautiful and vibrant children in a house fire on October 5th, 2019: son Shaun, age 12, and Morgan, age 9, and she continues to fight each day to pu...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Grief...loss...sadness...words just do not seem to fit the depth of sorrow in losing a child. Yet, grief is a part of this life we all live, and life, it still goes on. Whether you are grieving the loss of a child, a mother, fathe...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Fiercely intentional about finding a way to make sure Sydney's death can help others, Jenny Stanley earns the Warrior Moms' title by speaking openly about her darling, vivacious daughter who died of car heat exhaustion....

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy It is well known Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' 5 Stages of Grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But a little less known are the physical pains one goes through in dealing with trauma. Deep grief is exhaustin...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy "School days, school days Dear old Golden Rule days Reading and writing and 'rithmetic' ...when we were a couple of kids" Music by Gus Edwards |  Lyrics by Will D. Cobb (1907) Pictures of kids in new sneakers,...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy A club no one wants to be in because the initiation is too big of a sacrifice: the loss of a child. Unthinkable. Unimaginable. Warrior Moms is a local group in north Atlanta filled with strong, courageous, funny, and fiercely lovi...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Carter's Story Carter James Davis, age 17, a student-athlete who lived his life "ALL IN" was murdered behind a Publix in Roswell, GA, on August 1st, 2016 along with his friend Natalie Henderson. What should have bee...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy The unthinkable has occurred--child loss. The unnatural order of things that only happen to "others" is now our story.  How do you tell about this horrific loss? How do you answer the dreaded question: how many children...

Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy "Living in the AND " Losing a child is unthinkable, unimaginable. The weight of the sadness is exhausting, the journey of the grief is daunting, and finding others who understand without saying a word is priceless. In th...