This week on Thursday it will be 11 years since my mother died from suicide following years of battling with depression. Grief still works through me. This year, I am approaching the anniversary very consciously, starting with writing this today. How do I approach death anniversaries? Remembrance I let myself sit with feelings as they […]
Today I speak with Amy Watson who has experienced a stillbirth and a miscarriage. She talks about pregnancy after loss, how she struggled but also how she supported herself through the different losses. The interesting part of her story is how differently she experienced her two losses and how she managed those differences. Amy says:
All of my clients want to know how to deal with their grief and the aim is often and understandably to stop the intense pain. Healthy grieving strategies If you have been reading up on it, you have found lists with healthy grief coping strategies, such as, for example: Sharing your feelings: Talking to friends
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What is the right kind of grief support and how can I find it? This is the question that each and every one of you reading this will have asked yourself. Where to find support? I did too when I was freshly bereaved. Luckily I had a wonderful General Practitioner who referred me to a
With a pain in my stomach, I write to you today. This week I received an email from one of my subscribers that really hurt. She wrote: I wish ppl would stop trying to make money off us. If you’ve known this kind of tragedy (losing your only child) you know there are setbacks, depression,
Writing a card for a baby who died? If yes, what shall I write?
I don’t want to upset the parents…
Grief is an experience we all have to deal with sooner or later. Whether you have experienced it or not, you will eventually have friends and family members who are dealing with a loss. That is when you are in the role of a supporter. The following ten things about grief support are written for the grieving and at the same time, they will hopefully enlighten the supporter’s role.
Have you ever experienced that some of your tasks never seem to get done, even though they might be important and some even urgent? It is because they trigger some aversion, fear, worry, insecurity or boredom. Here is how you can get them done.
As adults, we create meaning by the words we put onto experiences. “This was the worst day of my life” or “at least you have other children” are just examples of what we either say to ourselves, to others, either out loud or in our thoughts. The more we think something, the more we believe it, the more it affects us emotionally, the more it creates our emotional, physical and mental state.
Sitting across from my husband and our daughter, while he was reading a bedtime story to her, I was reminded that my dad was not available to me in this way when I was a child. I distinctly remember a sentence he uttered when I was nineteen: “Your mother was responsible for the love in
