Healing after pregnancy, infant and child loss
May your children feel so very close to you. May they visit you in your sleep. May you find the time to be still, to calm your heart and to feel peace. May you find their love in the whisper of the breeze and in the stillness of the evening sky. May you be in [...]
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She cuddles up in my arm chair with me whilst I treat photographs. Sometimes she stays there with me for hours on end. Every afternoon she falls asleep on me in my studio. I could put her into bed but she will only be this little for the shortest of times. I am one blessed [...]
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Emotions About This New Little Life You Are Carrying Falling pregnant after enduring the loss of a baby at any age or gestation can be an emotional rollercoaster. Your innocence has been taken from you. There is not blissful pregnancy anymore. You may feel anxious, worried, frightened, excited, joyful and thankful all in the one [...]
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NOW CLOSED – Winner – Antoinette for her daughter Alyssa Today we are opening up Project Heal for people to enter this very special giveaway. For the winner of this giveaway I am going to draw a Butterfly on Christian’s Beach for them and carve their baby, child or loved one’s name on the [...]
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Every smiling face in this photograph has either known a world of pain or witnessed a patient expereice the death of their baby. You wouldn’t think that though would you? All those happy looking women. Well we are smiling because together we are using our experiences for a greater good. Last Friday on August 19th [...]
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To find out more about this very special day please click on the image to take you to our Day of HOPE home page. With love and blessings to you.
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This week I just had to share on how Score Music heals and inspires me. This photo was taken the day before my beloved Granddad passed away. It was such an intense time emotionally for me. After my Granddad died my cousin Holly shared a piece of music with me. She thought it would be [...]
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I took this photo back in February this year. The man in the photograph is my Dad – Red… the coolest guy on earth. Dad comes down the beach every so often with me. He loves photographing sunsets and for some reason on the occasions he does come down with me the sunsets are extra [...]
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Scarlett told me this afternoon that these little sweet hearts in the sand at her school were drawn for all the “sad mummies and daddies”. She melts my heart.
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For 18 months we survived the death of our son with no help from anyone else. We didn’t know about the support that could be found on the internet. We didn’t know anyone else who’s baby had died. We did not seek professional counseling. We turned only to each other and to get to sleep [...]
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The winner of the beach photograph set is Bill for his son Liam Alan. Ocea (my youngest daughter) chose the winner. I could never choose, but I did smile when I saw that a Dad had won Bill please send me an email to carlymariedudley@gmail.com and I will email you Liam’s photographs. Thank you so [...]
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Last Thursday I took a tumble at the beach. Yep, I fell flat on my face! I heard an almighty snap and at that very moment I thought I had broken my ankle. Luckily I was not alone on my trip to the beach. Sam and two of my three Tinkerbells were there. After an [...]
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Today we are giving away a name in the sand and sunset butterfly set from The Seashore of Remembrance. This week we received a donation from Scarlett’s amazing school teacher. When she asked me to take some photos for a friend of her who has experienced the loss of her two beautiful babies I felt [...]
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This was given to me in a little brown paper bag yesterday. It was made by my beautiful friend Amy. She works with me on Luminous Light. Amy made it for me, you know, just because. I wrote this quote when I first began drawing the butterflies on the Christian’s Beach just over a year [...]
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This is a photo of my sister in law and dear friend Helen and I at a u2 concert. We have known each other for about 8 years. She is a doll. A beautiful friend. The sister I never had. I can tell her anything. Helen is not only my beautiful friend but she is [...]
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