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The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Getting good (better) at feeling bad
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Griefbursts and silent screams
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Have you Ever Wondered? All about ...
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Healing Milestones After The Death...
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | In His Slipstream
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | My Grief Journey So Far
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Over 5 Years In
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Rolling Along Like A Bent Penny
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Saying the Wrong Thing – or ...
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Seven things I didn't know (a...
If you have recently lost your darling precious child - this is for you…I’ve written a blog for newly bereaved parents because I was that mum not so long ago. I’ve tried to write what I needed to read because it helps to know how
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Griefbursts and silent screams
Grief can leave us feeling wretched. There is an acute pain when someone you love dies, a pain that can be felt physically on occasion. On the long journey of adjustment – becoming accustomed to living life without the presence of this
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Have you Ever Wondered? All about ...
“Once you have begun to emerge from the darkness of loss, once you have begun to unfurl, blinking in the light, like someone waking from a long sleep, you rarely go back to the black pit of despair where you started".
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Healing Milestones After The Death...
The death of a child is so profound, it’s like no other form of loss. There’s no such thing as getting over the death of a child. Instead, bereaved parents must learn to adapt to a life without our child. We must reconcile the reality
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | In His Slipstream
Shortly after losing my son Laury at the age of 21, I decided to do something to honour his memory. Many of us do this, whether it’s a memorial garden, planting trees, holding a festival or setting up a charity or campaign organisation. It can
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | My Grief Journey So Far
This 'Christmas Tree' is an analogy of the way grief ebbs and flows. Starting at the bottom of the image, and moving up towards the tip of the tree. Those periods of raw, agonising pain, so protracted for many months, gradually become a
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Over 5 Years In
What follows is a chronicle of my thoughts in a typical day, five years after David’s death. Hopefully, it will also serve as a reminder to all of us still struggling to move forward, that we do not walk alone. Your grief is not abnormal or
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Rolling Along Like A Bent Penny
" I’ve learned to carry the pain, to live with it and recognise that it is what I look like now. Bruised, dented and prone to falling over every now and then. But … I get back up again because I have survived the worst that this
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Saying the Wrong Thing – or ...
People in your life may occasionally say the wrong thing. Some may not fully grasp that you won’t ever get over this and might say something like ‘Time heals all wounds.’...They may talk about their children of a similar
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Seven things I didn't know (a...
At the age of three, my daughter was diagnosed with leukaemia – she died just nineteen months later. That was twenty-two years ago. Through the devastation I started writing down my thoughts, and in time, these notes became the story
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