Mindy Sauer on Life Today – three years after losing Ben.
“Grief isn’t going away. So you might as well learn to peacefully coexist.” Mindy on navigating her ‘new normal.’
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Blue 4 Ben’s legacy
For Mindy Sauer, learning to live with a loss so great has been an uphill climb, one that takes work every single day, “I don’t know that the pain has gotten easier over the past three years. It’s changed. Or maybe I’ve changed. I suppose I’ve learned how to live with it.”
Mindy Sauer on living with grief and teaching her children to live with grace.
Living with grief doesn’t mean living with anger, “But anger is a cancer in itself. Left unchecked, it will literally eat you from the inside out.”
A conversation with Mindy Sauer – 3 years after losing her son, the boy who inspired #Blue4Ben
Three years ago, this entire community rallied behind beautiful little Ben Sauer. We prayed. We wore blue. For Mindy Sauer, the new normal for her family is difficult to navigate, “Grief is part of me now. I’m learning to live with it. And the weirdest part is knowing that grief and joy can peacefully coexist in this same person at the exact same moment.”