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The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Finding hope in the darkest of places
Years ago, as a newly qualified CBT therapist in the NHS, I was allocated a patient whose notes filled me with dread and anxiety. Two years previously, this patient had lost her son to suicide. I wondered what I could possibly offer this poor woman

The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Getting good (better) at feeling bad
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Latest news | New support day in Glasgow
"On Saturday 5 March, 2022, I spent the day with a roomful of strangers, but we all had one thing in common. We were parents who had lost a child to suicide or substance use. I was nervous as I drove to the event and had all these thoughts

The Compassionate Friends | Latest news | Sad news of the death Joe Lawley
The death of Joe Lawley, one of the Founder parents of TCF.

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