erin ahnfeldt

Listening to Life

The Healing I Didn’t Know I Needed (Part 2)

The Healing I Didn’t Know I Needed (Part 2)

After the suicide, I couldn’t see the broken pieces in me, much less put them back together.  The fog of questions only darkened the path forward until–a month after Mason’s death–I sat on a seven-hour flight to Calgary. My family and I circled up at our...
A Candle in the Cold

A Candle in the Cold

February was cold, and not just because of the freezing temperatures.  A student at our school died last month in a car accident, so her friends never got to say goodbye.   School counselors visited classrooms to help, and there were tears, but nothing could keep the...