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Survival Skills: Grieving Spaces

07/03/202507/03/2025 Steph Penny Leave a comment Surviving Chronic Illness

I woke up with a niggle in my chest. It’s fine, I told myself. I took pain killers anyway. They I laid down to rest, but the pain became rapidly worse. So I got up, sat on the couch, and began praying that the pain killers would kick in really soon. Twenty minutes later I […]

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Travelling Childlessly

20/01/202320/01/2023 Steph Penny Leave a comment Survivng Childlessness

One of my parenting dreams was taking my children travelling.  I always enjoyed travelling as a kid: the early morning starts when it is still dark, the air is cold and crisp, and the first stirrings of insects prelude the dawn chorus; the long sleeps in the car, and rambunctious singing along to cassette tapes […]

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Why Diagnosis Was a Relief For Me—and When Getting Better is Hard

02/12/202202/12/2022 Steph Penny 5 Comments Surviving Chronic Illness

Being diagnosed with a lifelong condition is a source of grief for many people. But diagnosis was actually a relief for me—and my grief sometimes gets worse when I get better, not just when I get sicker.  I am unfortunate enough to be living with an absolute monster of an autoimmune disease commonly known as […]

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Why I Sing When I’m Sad

03/09/202103/09/2021 Steph Penny Leave a comment Survivng Childlessness

I was recently interviewed for the Childless and Christian online conference, and while listening back to myself (which can be both horrifying and reassuring), I was struck by how creativity can help us in our grief.  Five months ago, I was watching a movie when I was struck with an image of my daughter, the […]

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