Connie Johnson

04/30/2024

04/29/2024

Truth ❤️

03/30/2024

03/07/2024

Coping with Child Loss; Healing from the Unthinkable with Travel. 🤗💕
Travel can offer a kind of peaceful distraction for your mind. Cherish your memories while embracing new experiences.

This is a fountain near my hotel, Hyatt Regency Wichita, in 2020.



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03/04/2024

My Sober Plan will help you take control of your relationship with addiction.

01/08/2024

Thank you all for following this page. I appreciate your continuing support. My aim here is to share a bit of my story, and help at least one person continue in their own grief journey by realizing that they are not alone.🤗💕

01/05/2024

Some great words🤗💕

Our daughter Alex died ten years ago today.

A decade ago I was heavy with grief and I couldn’t imagine what my life would look like years into the future. Try as I did, I just couldn’t see through the fog to even imagine this far ahead. And yet, here I am.

I stepped into a new chapter of my life- a chapter that I didn’t order, plan, or desire. Poetically, that chapter started on January 1st and it serves as a reminder to me each year- a reminder that new chapters of life sometimes start out of necessity. Unfair, uncomfortable, and heavy necessity.

I don’t need you to understand what it was like to lose two children in two years, but I think maybe I’d like for you to know that it is possible to do really hard things if you’re willing to take little steps.

Whether you’re charting a new course with intention or you’ve been plopped down in the middle of a path you really don’t want to be on, please believe me when I say this.

It’s okay that you don’t have a master plan or that the enormity of your new chapter is swallowing you up. Just forget about that for a bit. Just forget about having all your ducks in a row. I mean, why are there so many ducks, anyway? Just forget the ducks and take a step. Once that’s done, go ahead and take the next. If that doesn’t feel right, then reorient and start again. You get to do that.

Oh, and did you know that you can step forward and still really freaking miss what you had to leave behind? You can. I do. I am unbelievably grateful to be in this phase of my life and also, I miss my girls. Both. New starts don’t erase your old steps.

If you’re starting a new chapter, either by choice or necessity, I’m rooting for you. You can do this. Today or any other. You can do it.

I guess that’s really all I need you to know.

Hugs, Mandy 💛

01/04/2024

If anyone is interested, and your son or daughter was on Facebook, you can use this link to find out about...
Managing a Deceased Person's Account
https://www.facebook.com/help/275013292838654/?helpref=hc_fnav
This is probably where I went when I decided to keep my son's account available for people (and myself) to check out past photos, etc. Hope this helps. 🙂💕

(Very old photo of Tim and I in Yosemite.)

10/10/2023

If anyone is interested, and your son or daughter was on Facebook, you can use this link to find out about "Managing a Deceased Person's Account":

https://www.facebook.com/help/275013292838654/?helpref=uf_share

This is probably where I went when I decided to keep my son's account available for people (and myself) to check out past photos, etc. Hope this helps. 🙂