{"id":1405,"date":"2017-12-18T22:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:06:13","slug":"grieving-mom-shares-heartfelt-holiday-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/grieving-mom-shares-heartfelt-holiday-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieving Mom Shares Heartfelt Holiday Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1405\" class=\"elementor elementor-1405\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-42984650 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"42984650\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e864010\" data-id=\"e864010\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23142323 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23142323\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One thing we hear frequently from MADD victims and survivors is that coming to MADD often feels like a relief to them because, here, they finally find a group of people who REALLY understand their deepest feelings.&nbsp; With that in mind, we wanted to share (with permission) a poem that one Tennessee mom has written talking about her feelings during the holidays.&nbsp; We hope that it can help someone else to feel better in knowing they are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>MADD knows that journaling and writing poetry can be an important part of healing for many victims.&nbsp; We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madd.org\/tennessee\/poetry-by-victimssurvivors-of-impaired-driving-crashes\/\">Poetry Collection<\/a> of pieces written by our victims you may wish to review as well.&nbsp; You may even have a piece you&#8217;d like to contribute.&nbsp; Click the link for more information.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing we hear frequently from MADD victims and survivors is that coming to MADD often feels like a relief to them because, here, they finally find a group of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/grieving-mom-shares-heartfelt-holiday-poem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grieving Mom Shares Heartfelt Holiday Poem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[4,20,15,6,33,7,8],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-victims-services","tag-nomorevictimstn","tag-bui","tag-drugged-driving","tag-drunk-driving","tag-holidays","tag-impaired-driving","tag-tennessee-victims","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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