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The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Spring Cleaning
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Stepping out of life...the healing...
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Swimming through grief
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | Ten Years Of Grief
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Gift
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The grief does not go away
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Healing Power of Writing
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Power of "and"
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Ties That Bind
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | We keep him close, always
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
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Healing Power of Writing
I know I am not alone in expressing my thoughts, feelings and emotions in writing as a vehicle for processing life and all its wondrous and not so wondrous happenings...Of writing being healing (Michael Rosen) said, “There is relief and
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Power of "and"
“After we left our session that day, I couldn’t stop thinking about that one little word. Ever since Dorothy’s death, I had found myself trying to separate my re-emerging feelings of happiness from the steady depression I was in.
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | The Ties That Bind
When my three brothers and I were growing up and trouble hit the fan, Mum would often say, in a bid to keep her brood calm, ‘Well, at least we are all still here.’ She reminded me of this affectionate saying only very recently. I can
The Compassionate Friends | Guest blogs | We keep him close, always
‘We keep him close, always’: how I survived the loss of my teenage son Seven years ago, my 14-year-old son, Kadian, was killed in a road accident. This is the advice I’d give myself back then...The first thing I would say to my
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