Writings from Kristina Cowan, Writer, Reporter, Editor

The Quote Above and the writings below belong to someone very dear to our practice – Kristina Cowan. 

Kristina Cowan is a Writer, Reporter and Editor who focuses on health, women’s issues and education. Kristina has written about everything from America’s education system to 9/11 to women’s issues.  She is the Author of  When Postpartum Packs a Punch: Fighting Back and Finding Joy. 

She has written for AOL, Yahoo, PayScale, Harvard University, the Kellogg School of Management, the American Council on Education, Today’s Christian Woman, MJCZone, Huffington Post, and Edward-Elmhurst Health. She also has spoken on the radio and several podcasts. Not only is she a great writer, with an abundance of insight and knowledge to share, but she is passionate for mental health and shares freely from her own difficult experiences in life. 

For more about her, visit her site at https://www.kristinacowan.com/about/

To learn more about her book, visit https://www.kristinacowan.com/postpartum-packs-punch/

She recently started a publishing house, Redemptive Edge Press, and published her second book under the imprint: When Losses Become Legacies: Memoirs on Grief, God, and Glory. 

The articles below are pulled from her website ~

• Somewhere In Time: How Second Chances Heal
• Published on 2023-08-04

• Reflections on Grief: Philip Yancey and Nicholas Wolsterstoff
• Published on 2023-05-31

• Blue September: Twenty Years After 9/11
• Published on 2021-09-11

• Our Anchor, Our Hope: Why Our First Year at NCA Has Made All the Difference
• Published on 2021-02-09

• The Year the World Closed: What the Pandemic Has Meant for Kids’ Mental Health
• Published on 2020-12-10

• The Three Dimensions of Character
• Published on 2020-07-03

• Be the Hope
• Published on 2020-06-28

• All About Breastfeeding
• Published on 2020-04-30

• Monday Mindset: On the Real Things
• Published on 2020-04-06

• For the Love of New York
• Published on 2020-03-29

• On World Mental Health Day – A Nod to PMADS; Suicide Prevention
• Published on 2019-10-10

• What Does Uncomplicated Grief Feel Like
• Published on 2019-01-09

• Finding God in My Postpartum Fire
• Published on 2018-01-09

• Affliction and Hope
• Published on 2018-01-09 

• Infant Loss, Grieving Well
• Published on 2017-10-04

• A Mother Lost, A Mother Born
• Published on 2011-05-11

• Joy Comes
• Published on 2012-02-11

For some of Kristina Cowan’s Other Writings ~ Mental Health, Loss, Grief, Suicide 

• On Being a Mom Without a Mom
• The Huffington Post, May 13, 2015

• What the Living Can Learn From the Dying
• The Huffington Post, April 16, 2015

• Staying Healthy After Losing Someone to Suicide
• The Huffington Post, March 5, 2015

• Suicide and Its Unrelenting Stigma
• The Huffington Post, Jan. 27, 2015

• Grieving at the Holidays
• The Huffington Post, Dec. 18, 2014

• The Upside of Early Loss
• The Huffington Post, Oct. 23, 2014

• My Brother’s Keeper
• The Huffington Post, Oct. 8, 2014

• Finding God in the Depths 
• Today’s Christian Woman, May 14, 2014