TABOO TOPICS
Taboo Topics is a series dedicated to sharing stories from real live people [mostly who i know] on real life issues, situations or experiences that are seldom spoken about for various reasons. So far the topics that have been addressed [with links to all the stories] are the following:
Dealing with the Grief of losing Someone you Love
Living with Disabilities/Special Needs
Marriage [when it’s not been easy]
Parents of Young Children [where it hasn’t all been easy and fun and struggle free]
I hope these will be of encouragement to you and to friends and family who you know who have been through similar things – please feel free to share the stories or send links to people who you think might appreciate them.
love brett “fish” [brettfish@hotmail.com]
Taboo Topics: Infertility – meet Bettina
I have wrestled with writing this for a while now as it is a very sore spot but I know that God can work through this whether to help me heal or to help others [...]
Taboo Topics: Infertility – meet Wendy and Richard
My name is Wendy. Myself and my husband, Richard, have been married for 7.5 years and I have been off contraception for 5.5 of those years. I only went to the doctor in October 2010, [...]
Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Philippa and Emiel
this is from my good friends, Philippa [who i met online when i was overseas] and Emiel [who i met back home years ago] who somehow met each other and got happily married [which is [...]
Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Jackie Barker
This is a powerful testimony from my friend Jackie who was adopted: It was never a secret that I was adopted. Both my brother and I were told before we even fully knew what it [...]
Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Jane and Mike
My husband mike and I decided to start a family at the beginning of last year and so I went off contraception and we started trying. We assumed it would be quick and easy, because [...]
Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Tyron and Caraleigh
Hey Brett Thanks for the opportunity to share on your “Taboo Topics” series in regards to adoption. This is our story thus far: Myself and Caraleigh decided to pursue adopting Andrew around mid-Jan 2012. We [...]
Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet James Bradford
i met James at an improv group class i sometimes attend in Philadelphia and he was the first one to jump into sharing his adoption story. even though the story is pretty hectic, it seems [...]
Taboo Topics: Adoption [Intro]
this series of blog posts has been on my heart and mind for well over a year and i am excited to finally be at the point of getting started on it. there are a [...]
Taboo Topics: Losing a baby: For those who are not the person who has gone through it.
i thought i was finished with this series on people who have lost a child and then i received this email from a friend of mine who lost a baby. i knew this was one [...]
Taboo Topics: Losing a baby – some last stories and links.
When i started writing this blog series on people who have had miscarriages/lost babies, i was overwhelmed with the response i got, because in my life experience i had never come across many stories of [...]
Taboo Topics: Losing a baby – meet Sandra and Shane [my parents-in-law]
one imagines that once you are pregnant all goes well and a perfect offspring is born. that's how i felt cos i'd had an easy 1st pregnancy and my daughter(Ro-anne) was perfect. so when i [...]
Taboo Topics: Losing a baby – meet Grant and Mauri
Itʼs July, Mauri phones to tell me the news, weʼre pregnant again. Whoohoo! We had been trying and Mauri had had a dream in which a date for a birth of a baby was given. [...]