Tag: Mental Health

• One piece at a time – the power of puzzles for healing

  

  Jigsaw puzzles are perhaps the most perfect activity for people in the trenches of grief, and generally anybody who would like some mental and emotional respite. There was a long period around the time we were waiting to find out why Stewie had died, and after we did, where all I could manage to do…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Living

  Activities, Bereavement, Creating, Grief, Grief rituals, Jigsaw puzzles, Loss, Mental Health, Nursery, Stewie, Wellbeing

• Falling into darkness, but finding a way back to the light

  

  On my very worst day, perhaps a couple of weeks after my son’s funeral, I stumbled into the woods and sat sobbing in the shade of a fallen tree that I had run past many times in the days when my son was just an abstract idea in the outer reaches of my imagination, and…

  Charlotte Turner

  Grieving

  Aching Arms, Baby loss, Bereavement, Child Bereavement UK, Depression, Grief, Loss, Mental Health, Sands, Stewie, Stillbirth, Support, Tommy's