TCF in the media
I signed up to a retreat for bereaved siblings. It was the best thing I could have possibly done
Writer, Hayley Minn has spoken in the media about the death of her younger brother, David, and how the retreat for bereaved siblings run by The Compassionate Friends has helped her. Thank you, Hayley, for sharing your experience.
'My parents and I joined a group called The Compassionate Friends, and I signed up to a retreat for bereaved siblings. It was the best thing I could have possibly done...Surrounding myself with people who knew exactly what I was going through, and being able to talk openly with others who had this deep connection for the worst possible reason made me acknowledge how I was really feeling."
Singer George Shelley finds comfort at TCF retreat
"Grief is like glitter...however much you try to clear it up it never really goes; little bits always remain".
In May 2017, the musician and presenter George Shelley tragically lost his sister in a sudden accident. Harriet Shelley was 21 and her brother's closest confidante. In his first documentary, George courageously opens up about his struggles with grief.
Having spent the last 12 months struggling to talk about his loss and to deal with it, George embarks on a series of extraordinarily candid and raw discussions with his parents and best friend in a bid to help him cope with, and better understand, the process of grieving. He opens up to them in ways he has never done before and, for the first time, also speaks to other young people who have suffered the loss of a sibling and who have found peer support through The Compassionate Friends. George finds talking and sharing with other bereaved siblings at a Compassionate Friends retreat earlier this year helpful in understanding and coping with the grief for his sister.
View the documentary George Shelley - Learning to Grieve
For more details of support for bereaved siblings (18 years+) go HERE or contact info@tcf.org.uk
Discussion of parental grief on BBC Radio 4 'Woman's Hour'
On Wednesday 15th August 2018 BBC Radio 4 covered the topic of child loss and parental grief for an adult son or daughter.
You can listen to the discussion between Jane Wessman, bereaved mother of Billy who died aged 44 in 2015, Carolyn Brice, CEO of The Compassionate Friends, and Julia Samuel, pyschotherapist, at the link below:“I think about my daughter every day” - Bournemouth group for bereaved parents
The Bournemouth Echo featured an article about The Compassionate Friends' support group for bereaved parents in Bournemouth set up by Jane in April 2017. The article includes some lovely pictures of Jane and her beautiful daughter Ann.
Read more about Jane's motivation for setting up the group here.
Losing Mimi has been a defining moment in my life
Ten years on, Nigel Burnham reflects on the loss of his little girl, Mimi, and how after her death his wife, Liz, sought help at a York meeting of The Compassionate Friends.
Read more here.
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