Tag: Support
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You do not need to be a ‘good friend’ when you’re grieving

Since joining the world of bereaved parents, having already spent a few years in the world of bereaved children, I’ve found it surprising and also saddening to see how many grieving people are wracked with guilt over the fact they feel (or perhaps are being made to feel) that they aren’t being good enough friends.…
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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…
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Rediscovering my purpose – Travels With My Son

I had just attended a womens’ circle for womb healing, intended to help us become more in tune with our inner selves and our creativity, as well as healing past trauma and releasing emotional blockages. It was pretty woo woo even by my standards, but seven months on from the reality shattering stillbirth of my…