Kathy Benson

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  1. Titanic - Part I: It Was Sad When the Great Ship Went Down

    4/11/12 7:27pm by Kathy Benson
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    As you probably know/have heard, this week marks the 100th Anniversary of the RMS Titanic setting sail on April 10, 1912. On April 14th it hit an iceberg and sunk a little after 2:00 a.m. on April 15th.  Read more >

  2. Responses to Tragedy

    3/30/12 11:58am by Kathy Benson
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    This afternoon I was catching up on another episode of Awake (the fourth episode in the series). In this story line Detective Michael Britten interacts in both of his realities with a woman named Kate who babysat years ago for his now teenage son Rex (who is alive in one reality and dead in the other). In both scenarios Kate lost her sister in a surfing accident, but how she copes and deals with her sister's death and what that means for her life is very different in the two realities.  Read more >

  3. Awake

    3/29/12 1:29pm by Kathy Benson
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    Male Therapist: "So tell me how this works?"Detective Michael Britten: "I'm awake with my wife and I close my eyes, I open them and I'm awake with my son."Female Therapist: "And this has been happening since, the accident?"Male Therapist: "So you begin working on one case here, in reality, and then suddenly you begin working another case there, in your dream."Detective Michael Britten: "It completely feels real to me."  Read more >

  4. Gatekeeping (1st Edition)

    1/14/12 8:10am by Kathy Benson
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    How are you feeling?What are your plans for tomorrow?  Read more >

  5. There Is No "Normal" When a Baby Dies

    1/12/12 2:18pm by Kathy Benson
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    © Dennis Van Tine via Zuma Press

    I have read a lot of commentary about what happened last week when Fox News contributor Alan Colmes attacked Republican Party primary Presidential candidate Rick Santorum and his wife Karen for the "crazy" way they dealt with the death of their son soon after his birth in 1996. Political views and party affiliations aside, I believe what Mr. Colmes did was out of line on so many levels and felt sick as I learned about the incident.  Read more >

  6. Tweeting a Funeral: A Step Too Far or a Space for Comfort?

    9/22/11 6:00am by Kathy Benson
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    Graveyard

    When I first heard that my friend Lori, from Write Mind Open Heart, was going to be "live tweeting" the funeral of the husband of fellow blogger Melissa, from Full Circle, I had mixed feelings. Though I knew that Lori had gotten Melissa's permission and blessing to do so, my initial reaction was cynical and I questioned if tweeting during, and specifically about, a person's funeral was taking the role of social media in bereavement too far. However, I tried to reserve further judgement until after I had a chance to read Lori's tweets and see how the whole thing played out.  Read more >

  7. A Good Hard Look: On Their Way to a Happy Ending

    8/22/11 3:00pm by Kathy Benson
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    As a blogger, I found myself wondering throughout A Good Hard Look what kind of blogger Flannery O'Connor would have been, if weblogs existed in her time and she chose to start one...  Read more >

  8. The Beach Trees: Moving On Doesn’t Mean Forgetting

    7/13/11 3:00pm by Kathy Benson
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    Have you lost a loved one? I believe that those who have will really be able to connect with and find solace in The Beach Trees by Karen White. As a bereaved mother I could appreciate and relate to how the author described the main character Julie's experience of grief and loss, especially some of the physical ways we respond and feel when a loved one dies or you lose contact with them.  Read more >

Kathy Benson

Full Name
Kathy Benson
Member Since
September 2008
About Me: 

I love to write and have been blogging at Bereaved and Blessed (formerly Four of a Kind) since April 2007.

I tweet @BereavedBlessed.

I am a Domestic engineer with 3 children (2 here and 1 in Heaven) trying to live mindfully and find joy in the journey after dealing with secondary infertility and pregnancy loss for over 5 years. I have been married to my college sweetheart since 2000 and we live in Chicago, Illinois with our eight year old son and two year old daughter.

I see myself as a “wounded healer” and I am passionate about helping others who have also struggled with infertility and loss work through their grief and make some good come from the tragedies that they have experienced. 

I am also an American Council on Exercise (A.C.E.) certified Group Fitness Instructor and teach classes part time at a church in our neighborhood. I love to exercise, run and practice yoga, all of which have been very therapeutic for me over the years on my journey through infertility and loss. 

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blogher, secondary infertility, pregnancy loss, neonatal death, parenting

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