Empty Photo Project shines much-needed light on loneliness of child loss
by Melissa Willets posted in Parenting
As a someone who is grieving the loss of a child, it?s easy to feel like you are suffering completely alone. As moms around you seemingly go on with their perfectly-happy lives, unaware of the pain you carry with you every step, and breath, you take.
That?s why when I came across the Empty Photo Project, I felt a sense of relief. Here were other women who were opening up about losing a child, and sharing the very thoughts that bang around inside my head day after day.
The Empty Photo Project was created by a mom named Susana Butterworth, who, like me, lost a baby late in pregnancy. As she writes on the Empty website, ?After losing my son in March of 2017, I felt alone in my grieving. I thought that no one could understand what it was like losing a child. It seemed like all of the newfound hopes and dreams I had died right along with my son?s little body. The emptiness was heavy.? Yup.
Butterworth?s inspiration for her photo project, that features others who have suffered loss, was, as she writes, ?To shed light on child loss and pull back the curtain on what that grief might feel and look like. The goal for this project is to create recognition for the face of child loss and to build a community of families that can grieve together and find unity in emptiness.?
The photos show women holding mirrors to reflect the emptiness they feel after losing children to miscarriage, stillbirth, infertility, adoption, adult child loss, divo...
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