Never occurred to me.

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When you experience a life-changing event such as loss, you...or I should say I...didn't really think. I just did what I could to get from moment to moment, make it through the whopping amount of tasks thrown at me, work to honor the magnificent person I had lost and really work to make some sense of it all. Still am.

I can't even begin to tell you what this community did for me. It's nothing short of incredible and I still don't have the right words with which to thank you. I likely never will.

But what happened to my blog was that it went from a marketing blog to a full-on momma blog. For many weeks. And you were so patient with me. 

Now, back to the "no thinking" part. It didn't occur to me that the category of posts that I had created would live on and be threaded throughout the search engines. Um, duh, right? Again, I wasn't thinking.

I was too busy feeling.

Sure, I knew I was looked to as a marketing blog, but I didn't know that my posts on loss would help many grieving people. Incredible to me, really.

I've had several people that I've never known--nor will ever really know--reach out to me and thank me. Every week I get traffic from people searching google for information on "loss", "loss of mother", "support for a friend who's lost a mom" and so on. I've spent some late nights emailing with women whom I've never met but were preparing for their eulogies the next day. I've had a funeral home cite my post to show how people can hold a celebration of life instead of a "funeral" (I still can't imagine honoring her spirit any better than a day filled with more giggling about the good times than crying about the sad times ahead) and I've had other sites want to share how people can dedicate a tree to a lost one.

I've had people thank me for suggesting some good reads as they're still grappling with loss years later. And others thanking me for giving them a new idea to help heal.

Many who aren't even grieving just love that this blog is dedicated to her.

I'm so glad those posts are helping others. But it just never, ever occurred to me that people would be looking here as they make their way through loss. I guess it's because those posts, unlike my other posts, weren't written for an audience--and certainly not from an expert perspective. They were just written to help me (and writing about her felt like the only way I could talk to her).

There are a lot of resources to read on loss and grief, but maybe it's also helpful to hear it from someone who's just working their way through it. Not sure; like I said, I just really wasn't thinking about it at the time.