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When it hurts, it hurts
Posted on February 15, 2016 Leave a Comment
I am hurting. The pain is radiating from my heart and spreading down to the tips of my fingers and toes. It feels as if my hair aches and my finger nails are digging into me. This pain and grief feels familiar, common but also unfamiliar. I have not bathed in grief for a long […]
Letters to my Mama… part 1
Posted on June 11, 2015 1 Comment
Firstly I wanted to tell you that I love you. I love you so much it often brings tears to my eyes just thinking about you.
Fear of the unknown
Posted on January 22, 2015 3 Comments
So I have done a bit of writing over the past few days and have published it to the blog, but not posted it up on Facebook. Fear is what is holding me back. Fear of judgement. What I don’t want is for you to think that it is like this all the time or […]
The dance of exhaustion..
Posted on October 21, 2014 3 Comments
At the end of two weeks of full on work, I can say with conviction I AM EXHAUSTED. More than that I am near breaking point. My head is constantly filled with what I need to do, what I haven’t done and what I have been doing. I have slipped into seriously bad habits of eating […]
My Father passed away a year ago…
Posted on May 29, 2014 5 Comments
15.02.49 – 26.06.13 “Kia ora, my name is Kyrin, I care full time for my Mum, Martha, she was diagnosed with early onset alzheimer’s 6 years ago, my Father cared for her but he passed away almost a year ago.” I have repeated this many times in the past few months, to social workers, support […]
Me, Martha and Alzheimer's 