I want you to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it will get better. You will find yourself in a beautiful place eventually when everyone else is going through the empty nest syndrome. Joanne told me that you were on tonight, she should be joining us tonight. Laurajude, not specifically for women who have lost babies, but I wrote the book because I had a sense of loss. What I tried to do was to fill in the holes in my life.
Different people have different holes.
I filled in those holes by expanding my horizons, by looking beyond what people expected of me and what I expected of myself. Again, it is a process and sometimes a process can be painfully slow. One thing that helped me a lot was stepping back and looking at the big picture. The big picture was seeing all children as my own. I didn't have to have custodial care of them, but I could sure influence lives.