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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

The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Spring Cleaning
My Mum was a cleaner. Not professionally, although she had worked at “the big house” when she was in service as a young girl in Liverpool. No, I mean that my Mum loved cleaning and was very houseproud. Dust didn’t dare settle on

The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Stepping out of life...the healing...
“I can hear your absence in my soul, loud and luminous, sometimes it’s a hushed echo, lingering low and lurking loose but it never fades, it takes a break but it never breaks away.” This is a beautifully written blog about the

The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Swimming through grief
"Our lives were thrown into a living hell. The shock of it, the cruelty of it, the grim unreality of it. Yet even in those first, nightmarish days when I was living in a fog of despair, I felt a primitive need to get in the water, to swim, to

The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Ten Years Of Grief
“We lost our boy Daniel 10 years ago on November 28th. He was only 4 days short of his 35th birthday, and it was the most devastating event in the lives of, my wife Alison, daughter Laura and me. Out of a clear blue sky, we were hit with a

The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Gift
With my son’s death, I have come to the painful understanding that he has given me a gift. More than any other I have received, I didn’t expect it and didn’t want it. But I have it now and cannot return it. It is beholden upon me,

The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The grief does not go away
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eldest son, Nicholas, dies of gastric cancer aged 43.” When I read that headline last weekend, everything around me disappeared and my mind went numb. And then the pain returned. A pain like no other I have ever

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