This week, a daily freewrite was so moving, I had to hear more. Mind Over Matter by 
revisits the sudden loss of her only child.
"It’s difficult to talk about it as it does bring everything back as if time has stood still,"
she adds in the comment section, which is as rich as the original freewrite.
Thank you for talking about it, !
And thank you for sharing more details in the comment section of this #must-read post. As one commenter said, you are one of the most helpful and positive people on Steemit. While "some people never get past their grief," writing is one of the primary ways we can come though (scroll down to see which commenter said that).
One of
Being a parent who lost a child is part of who I am now. It has changed me and I don’t like to bring it up but sometimes it just comes out.
I did ask for help from spiritual realms after Kevin passed as I wondered if he knew he was dead since it happened suddenly in a car accident on Christmas Day in 1998.
It may seem unbelievable but, 5 mos after his death, at his gravesite, a portal opened and he appeared briefly with a smile. This helped me so much and I thank the Tuatha De Danaan for making this possible.
I had to know more --
and she happens to have written a whole book with the "more" that I was looking for!
A true story of a mother's spiritual journey
to find if her son's spirit had survived the death of his physical body. The ghost stories told in Joanne's childhood by her grandmother and the legends remembered from her Irish ancestry of the Tuatha De Danaan (Gaelic for Children/People of the Goddess Danu) helped decipher the signs along the way. This book will hold a special fascination for readers interested in Celtic Irish history and mythology. Dreams, water scrying, druids, spirit companion animals and the photographs at the cemetery are all part of this mystical journey. A contact is made when a "Child" opens a portal from another dimension.
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What I did worry about was whether or not he knew he was released from his physical body since the accident was so unexpected. I had read of sudden deaths where the person did not realize they were dead and kept trying to live their earthly life. He had hit black ice and the car had rolled several times killing him instantly.
When Kevin was a child I had often talked of the spirit or soul leaving the physical body after death and going through a gateway or portal to enter the realm of our next level of existence. That knowledge gave me some solace as I knew he would remember our talks. Since we had often talked of the spiritual life, I wondered if he would contact me, or if he could contact me! He knew I was open to this sort of thing and I would love to have a sign from him that he had completed the transition from the physical body.
Where was he now? The question of his transition to the next plane of existence was weighing heavy on my mind. Having prayed to Michael the archangel to protect him from any evil, I also prayed to Mary, the mother of Jesus, to bring my son's spirit safely through to the next cosmic realm. I thought that Mary, having lost her own child, would understand. To cover all bases, I also tried, through my thoughts, to contact the Children of Danaan. I asked them to find my son and take him to Tir na nOg.
Comments! I love the comments!
and the queen of comments has to be 
As you say, losing a child is not the natural order, and is one of the hardest things we can possibly go through. And some people never get past their grief.
But we are human and we persevere, as you have done, and wonderfully so. You have long been one of the most helpful and positive people on Steemit, for the two plus years I've been here, and I am thankful you are still here.
Speaking for myself, writing is one of the primary ways I managed to come through my own grief, though outside of my meditation group, it took me a while to want to share those writings. I ultimately did so on the chance that it might help someone going through something similar.
Freewritehouse: more than a writing community!
Today I am focusing on just one freewrite, one author, but I will do more in the future.
Help me out if you would with this question (using the comment section would be great):
How many #freewritehouse members have published books?
Post links to yours in the comment section if you would, please and thanks! 
has also written a guide to dream analysis:
Druids, shamans and prophets have sought meanings in dreams
for hundreds of years. Now you can interpret your own dreams with this guide to unlocking the secret language of your subconscious.
Joanne Collicott McGuigan
was born in Hammersmith, England. Joanne's parents met during the 2nd World War in England. Her mother was a nurse from Kiltane, Co. Mayo, Ireland and her father a Canadian soldier from Canterbury, New Brunswick. The oldest of five children, Joanne spend her childhood surrounded by her father's people, the Collicott and McFarlane families, in the tiny village of Canterbury, New Brunswick, Canada.
Although working in the banking field was her primary profession, Joanne also wrote a dream analysis column for a local paper. The information compiled from writing this column is the basis for the book, The Dream Mechanism.
The author's deep faith and spiritual beliefs are evident in Child of Danaan. This book is based on the mystical journey after the sudden death of her only child.
Joanne is working on two books; one about her mother, an Irish war bride, and the pioneer lifestyle she experienced in coming to Canada; the other, about life on Prince Edward Island.
No "Problem with Freewrites" here!
I love this warm, welcoming community where freewriting unleashes ideas, emotions, plots, and characters that would remain locked up inside our subconscious without the #dailyprompt and the 5-minute timer reminding us to write nonstop no matter what's coming out.
Whole books on the subject already exist, so I won't freewrite one now, but I will go off hunting... TTYL!
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