Tag Archives: Grief Loss and Bereavement

A grief observed… approaching the first anniversary

In this crazy first year as a grieving mother, I’ve learned an awful lot about bereavement. Far more than I expected to know at my age, having lost a child so suddenly. Just like many people, I was living in blissful ignorance of this feeling before my daughter died – oh, how I miss that!...

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She’s not coming home…

Telling our children that their much-loved big sister wasn’t coming home was quite possibly the hardest thing we’ve ever had to do. Having broken the news to our family, that Abi’s life support would be switched off, we went to see our other children and took them out of the hospital for a walk. We...

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The whirlpool of grief

A note before you read: I wrote this a few weeks after Abi died, when my grief was still very fresh and raw. It’s become one of the most-read posts on this blog, because the ‘whirlpool’ image – closely linked to the well-known Kübler-Ross stages of grief – seems to resonate with so many people...

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A new kind of normal…

Imagine an average day without someone you love dearly, a child, spouse or close relative you live with – knowing that you’ll never see them again. It’s almost impossible to do, unless you’ve experienced it – I know this now. I could empathise with the anguish, the hurt, but actual continuing grief goes so much...

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