From mourning to light
Honest writing for angel parents, siblings and estranged families, from someone who has walked the same road.
Child and Sibling Loss
Surviving the First Year After Losing a Child
A gentle month by month picture of the first year of child loss: what is normal, what helps, and how bereaved parents keep breathing.
Sibling Loss: The Forgotten Grievers
When a child dies, their siblings often grieve in the shadows while comforting everyone else. What surviving siblings carry and what helps.
Why Marriages Struggle After Child Loss, and How Couples Survive
Losing a child strains even strong marriages. The two-speeds problem, the blame trap, and what helps couples grieve without losing each other.
What Is an Angel Parent?
The meaning of the term angel parent, where it comes from, and why so many bereaved mothers and fathers find comfort in it.
Grieving the Babies Who Never Came Home
Miscarriage and infant loss are real child loss. On grieving a baby the world never met, and finding recognition for the smallest lives.
Estrangement
Grieving a Living Child: When Estrangement Is the Loss
Estrangement from an adult child is a real grief without a funeral. Why it hurts the way it does, and where estranged parents can find support.
Facing the Holidays When Your Adult Child Will Not Speak to You
Holidays magnify estrangement grief. Practical ways estranged parents can survive the season with their heart and their dignity intact.
Ambiguous Loss: Grief Without a Funeral
Ambiguous loss explains why estrangement, missing loved ones and unresolved goodbyes hurt so deeply. What it is and how families cope.
When You Cannot See Your Grandchildren: A Grandparent's Grief
Grandparent estrangement is a hidden epidemic of grief. Why losing access to grandchildren hurts so deeply and where grandparents find support.
Healing and Faith
Feeling Connected to Your Child in Heaven
Many bereaved parents describe signs, dreams and a continuing bond with their child. What these experiences mean and why they comfort.
How a 12-Step Program Works for Grief
Twelve steps are famous for addiction recovery. Here is why the same structure works for child loss and estrangement, and how our free program runs.
15 Grief Journaling Prompts for Bereaved Parents
Gentle journaling prompts for parents grieving a child, plus how a morning and evening writing practice steadies the hardest days.
Where Was God? Faith After Losing a Child
Child loss can shake faith to its foundation. On anger at God, unanswered questions, and how belief survives and deepens after loss.
Turning Mourning into Light: How Purpose Grows from Grief
Grief does not have to end in darkness. How bereaved parents transform suffering into service, meaning and real, sustaining joy.
Practical Support
How to Start a Grief Support Group in Your Town
A step by step guide to starting a support group for child loss or estrangement, using the Jonny's Angels 12 step manual and workbook.
Grief or Depression? Knowing When to Reach for More Help
Deep grief after child loss can look like depression. How the two overlap, how they differ, and the signs it is time to add professional support.
Do Online Grief Support Groups Really Help?
What bereaved parents gain from online grief support groups, how Zoom circles compare to in person meetings, and how to choose a good one.
How to Support a Friend After Child Loss, for the Long Haul
Most support vanishes after the funeral. How to be the friend who stays: what to do at one month, six months, and every year after.
Grief Coach or Therapist: Which Do You Need?
The honest difference between grief coaching, peer support and therapy, and how to choose the right help after losing a child.
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