Poetry and Other Life Stuff Archives

No Rush

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Veronica Beck 7 Comments healing, mental health, poetry

There is no rush.Take this moment to pause, breathe. When you’re yelling at the kids to hurry up and get

math problem

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Veronica Beck 3 Comments family history of suicide, intergenerational healing, mental health

when john died,
i blamed myself.
turns out my siblings
blamed themselves too.
how does that work
mathematically?

Poetry and Other Life Stuff

longing

January 6, 2020January 19, 2020 Veronica Beck 4 Comments poetry

longing on a train in the midwest (a poem)

Parenting Poetry and Other Life Stuff

Talking About Barbara

November 23, 2019February 21, 2020 Veronica Beck 9 Comments breaking family patterns, breaking generational patterns, compassion for yourself as a parent, family history of suicide, mental health, talking about hard things with kids, talking to your kids about suicide

“I’m sad today,” I said to my kids.

I didn’t want it to be a big deal. I wanted it to be like one of Kate’s thousand little conversations, casually mentioned and repeated over time so that the lesson gradually and naturally sinks in.

But a thousand little conversations have to start somewhere.