A lady came in to the station today to pick up a prize; she was a little emotional and said her winning this prize made her week. Her Mom had just passed away and she was fighting\u00a0 the internal gravity of it.<\/p>\n
So we chatted; I shared how I recently lost my Mom, Daphne, and how the road of grief is far from simple, short or definitive.<\/p>\n
She could not hold back her tears and neither could I. Losing my Mother has had a profound effect on me. There are days when I feel ready to face the day & others where I just want to crawl back to bed and stay under the covers.<\/p>\n
Greif is a powerful thing, beyond our control; it deserves respect, time and honesty. I learned very early in my grief for Mom, that if I didn’t take the time to grieve, my mind & body would force me to. The release of anxiety from when, where & how it was going to happen, threw my body & mind into chaos.<\/p>\n
Here’s the good news; I have more good & great days than bad now; it’s been 6 and a half months.<\/p>\n
I miss our visits every day and that will never change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lady came in to the station today to pick up a prize; she was a little emotional and said her winning this prize made her week. Her Mom had just passed away and she was fighting\u00a0 the internal gravity of it.","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":25006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middays"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 22:00:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/middays\/2023\/08\/a-simple-gift-card\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}