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dad’s birthday
This is guest post written by Nicola Murray Nic Murray is an ex-colleague of mine who I think the world of. Soon after my wife died she wrote to me to offer the best kind of reassurance that I could...
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day off
Some mornings I wake up and wonder, ‘Should I have a day off from grief today?’. A whole day when I don’t analyse my loss, write about it or read anything about other people’s. In fact, as I sat in my...
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butterfly sanctuary
This is a guest post written by Emilie Adams Emilie, 44, is from France and lives in London with her family. She was happily married to Rob until 24th March last year when he was tragically killed in a...
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losing zoë
This is a guest post by Walter and Dorothy Schwarz This story is exceptionally close to my heart. It’s about the suicide of a girl who I never met, which in itself is tragic as she’s the sister of a...
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hay griever
Sometimes reactions speak louder than words. Well this last week I’ve tried to verbalise what’s wrong but it’s been my eyes rather than my mouth that have done all the talking. I’ve barely stopped...
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primal scream
In the weeks following my wife’s death I was consumed by fear for our son’s future. How would he react? How would I tell him what had happened? Could he grow up happily without her? How would I take...
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living loss
This is a guest post by Becky Cricther about grief before death Becky is 35-years-old and mummy to Chloe, aged four, who she lives with in Birmingham. A devoted daughter herself, Becky finds herself...
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annabel’s angels
This is a special Father’s Day guest post by Simon Hancox Simon’s wife Annabel was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in April 2012. She died just after Christmas last year, leaving behind her...
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father’s day
It’s Father’s Day in the UK today. For those of us who are lucky enough to actually have a father, it’s probably a time to send a card, pick up the phone or make a visit to show we care. For those who...
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like this
I’ve been gradually falling into a low mood for several weeks. The word depressed in its clinical sense is wrong, because I am not ill. But in its way of describing a lowered state it perfectly...
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educating educators
This is a guest post by Zainab AbdulAziz In a week when the British media covered the issue of educating young children about death, I wanted to add another voice to the debate. Zainab AbdulAziz, 30,...
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nappy valley
About two years ago I started writing a blog that no one ever saw. No one apart from my wife at least. It was about all sorts of nonsense that all sorts of people already wrote about all the time. I...
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spelling boobies
I used to laugh a lot at the stark contrast between human behaviour back home in the north of England and life in London. The best way I can sum it up is that if you collapsed and started foaming at...
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broken bones
I set aside time this week to properly concentrate on writing my book. I had a deadline that seemed to be way of in the distance but now appears to be drawing closer and closer. So far I’ve snatched a...
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grief encounter
My mind is racing this morning as it has been all through the night. My head is so full of thoughts that I can barely decide how to commit them to the keyboard I’m typing on. Last night I attended an...
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goodbye grandma
My maternal grandma died this afternoon. She was the last of my grandparents to go. She was an incredible woman, an incredible grandmother and, most of all, an incredible friend. I worshipped her from...
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marginalised grief
By the time my grandma passed away this week she had come to terms with her death. She had been suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring of the lung, which made breathing increasingly difficult....
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eight months
The day after I started writing this blog I published a post entitled Imagining It as a way of responding to the frequent comment, “I just can’t imagine what you’re going through”. Six months to the...
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having faith
This is a guest post by Katherine Cline Katherine and I recently got chatting over email. Sadly we have a lot in common. Her husband Wesley died unexpectedly on 30th March this year at just 37 years...
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comfortably numb
“I can’t explain. You would not understand. This is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb.” – Pink Floyd I’ve half-written lots of posts this week that haven’t made it onto the blog. Thoughts...
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