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completing an endurance event is similar to grief

I Made It – How Completing an Endurance Event is Similar to My Grief Journey

Hope H. Dover
September 28, 2020

I’ve been remembering and reflecting upon the all female GORUCK Light event that I participated in nearly a year ago. Part of my “why” for doing these crazy events has always been my two babies who died. Until now I’ve never really thought about how completing an endurance event is similar to my grief journey.

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Surviving the Holidays: 5 Tips for Grieving Parents

Hope H. Dover
November 30, 2019

Fresh grief is hard. Most of the time it seems like you’re merely surviving and the holidays can compound grief even more, especially the first holiday season without your child. Like it or not, the holidays will come. While you may want to crawl in a hole and wait for them to pass, you have…

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Called to Love

Hope H. Dover
May 16, 2019

I usually post something on the 18th of May, the day my Thomas Roy died. And I still might post something on Saturday, but today I have some thoughts. All four of my children are represented on this wall in our playroom, each one of them fearfully and wonderfully made. Two of my children are…

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I’m 40 and It’s All Good

Hope H. Dover
August 6, 2018

I used a kid-sized shovel to carve the number 40 into the sand. As I finished, I looked up to see dark storm clouds on the horizon. Despite the storm looming ahead, the sun’s rays made their way through the clouds above me and the way they caused the wet sand to sparkle was nothing…

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My Hurting Heart

Hope H. Dover
May 18, 2018

  “Your heart will heal.” These were the words the nurse whispered in my ear as she wheeled me into the elevator. Hours earlier as I came out of anesthesia in the recovery room I asked her if it was over. After she confirmed the surgery to terminate the pregnancy of my very much loved…

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Unshakable Hope

Hope H. Dover
November 16, 2017

The air was crisp and the jacket I was wearing did not adequately shield the chill of the wind, but I was being pulled to take a walk. This wasn’t just an ordinary walk. It was a Sunday morning at church during Sunday School and I needed to walk. As I walked down the drive…

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