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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Today I speak with Kellie Sipos who I met as part of being a guest on her podcast, My Child Left Home for Heaven. Kellie has experienced multiple losses within her own family which started with her father’s suicide, followed by the sudden unexpected loss of her sister. In 2018 she lost her daughter Emilie through
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Today I speak with Domenique Rice who I have come to know as part of the Instagram community of bereaved parents supporting one another in the Grieving Parents Support Network. People come and go in this community, but Domenique has stayed actively involved and developed a voice to be noticed creating stillbirth awareness in honour
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‘When you decide that it is yours, you’ll understand that along with that grief comes an amazing life of living after loss because you have something that no one else can ever, ever have. And that is the love, that is the love – that’s the love that remains.’ Melo has experienced three multiple significant
‘I wish to be ok with it if for no other reason than I owed it to myself and I owed to my still-living children and those that care about me. Because they have a right to have a full and beautiful life, and having a mother that’s traumatised and overwhelmed by something that she
In this episode, we will be talking about child loss and loss through a divorce. I’m joined by Rachel Tenpenny, who is sharing her experiences and her insight that healing is possible. I promise that if you will be here listening until the very end, you will know why she is absolutely sure that healing
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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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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
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
Anniversaries, as you know, have a way of being remembered in the body way before they get consciously registered in the mind. It is as if our body remembers first. And, most important of all, EVERY BODY remembers differently because every body IS different. Is there a purpose in grieving 10 years later? … I
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