Francesca
griefmum.bsky.social
Francesca
@griefmum.bsky.social
A mum on a journey of life and loss, caring for a child with mitochondrial disease.
You may be tired and fed up, but there is strength within you even if you don’t see it. So keep fighting.

#grief
#loss
#hope
April 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Just to say I do not need lasagne today, not prayers from a god I do not believe in or words of positivity. But if you can sit with me in my despair, in my sadness and in my rage at the cruelty of mitochondrial disease then you are welcome.
#grief
#Mentalhealth
#nuerodegenerativedisease
April 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Grief is tidal. In time, it can recede and leave us with feelings of peace and advancement, only for it to wash back in with all its crushing hopelessness and sorrow. Back and forth it goes, but with each retreating drift of despair, we are left a little stronger …Nick Cave
#grief
#loss
April 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Sometimes the only solution to life events is a Starbucks with your bestie!
# dogs # coffee
April 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source." – Doris Day
February 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Today … is just not happening.
#dogs
January 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Grief is much like this bottled garden, trusted to our process we can renew ourselves, given support not interference, empathy not advice we can begin to make sense of our journey.
# grief # journey
January 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Love is like the sun: the closer you are to it, the warmer you feel.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#dogs #love
January 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
January 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today I am perfecting in-car crying. Grief is a strange thing it can lie unnoticed in the business of life and rise up like tidal waves in all the spaces in between.
#grief
January 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Growth happens, it just does. It’s in the core of every living thing no matter how harsh the environment that we try the best way we can to exist, to be seen. To turn towards the light even on the darkest of days.
#growth #grief
January 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My severely sight impaired son writing on a party favour etch a sketch board. I love you.
The shapes on this board will never be erased from my heart.
January 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Grief is a lot like running, you can do the same trail and one day it’s easy and another day it’s as if you’ve never run before. Today was a great run day and today I’m sitting OK with my grief … I had my trusty trail trainers, my running buddy and a new play list …
January 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In this moment I am keeping my face towards the sunshine …
November 28, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes” H. Jackson Brown
November 27, 2024 at 11:36 PM