Today I have the pleasure to speak with Miten who I’ve known for almost 20 years through his and Deva’s music. Miten shares the traumas he’s experienced throughout his life and how he’s found the healing power of music. Miten says: If there is one thing, I would say that’s helped me, that is to […]
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Lisa Boehm heard a knock at the door just as she had gone to bed, and it was the police coming to let her know that her teenage daughter had died in a head-on collision.Lisa tells us how she picked up the pieces of her shattered life and how she found ways to thrive and
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Today I speak with Amie where she shares how her life started with the loss of connection to her father due to mental illness and the challenging relationship with her alcoholic mother. Amie then became pregnant for the first time, but her daughter Ruthie died after 33 days.At 36 years, Amie was diagnosed with neck
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Today Sharon Ehlers and I dive into the topic of loss by suicide. We both share how we dealt with losing close people who took their own lives. Sharon has lost multiple people in her life, two of which died by suicide. She shares so generously about all the tools and resources she found along
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Today I speak with my ex-husband and the father of our children. We reflect on eleven years since the death of our younger twin daughter A’Mya. In doing this we are spending time speaking about her, honoring her place in our lives, and, as I’d like to see it: spending time parenting her. Our conversation
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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
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You and I are not as different as it might seem… I will never forget my father’s first words on January 19th, 2012 as I finally reached him: ‘You have got to be strong now.’ I knew what he was going to say next and I didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t want it
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Even though the time that has passed since death does not determine the amount of grief left to be felt, it still gives us information on the length of time we managed to survive without them. Nathalie Himmelrich What does grief and grief work look like 10 years on? Today is my mother’s 10th year
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,
I daydream about … 💫 who they would have become ✨ Last night I went to Ananda Mae’s parents’ evening at the school. Every parent had to introduce their child given it was a new formation of kids. As I heard the other parents describe their child, mentioning their siblings, I went off daydreaming about
