Bereavement

The BBC television show The Repair Shop has become a huge success since it was first aired in 2017. We started to watch it regularly ...

I am writing this blog as a dear friend of mine has recently suffered the bereavement of a sibling and it has certainly made me ...

Family are the friends that we can’t choose. There may be personality differences, strong opinions and sibling rivalries to consider. One of the questions I ...

I was chatting with one of my clients yesterday, who has been struggling with loss, and she told me that she felt she had “turned ...

I am often struck by how we can feel deeply sad when someone famous, a celebrity, whom we don’t know personally, dies. This is because, ...

What makes a good friend? Do you feel you have good friends? Are you a good friend to others? Do you have enough good friends ...

The death of a parent My mother’s death ten years ago turned my world upside down.  Nothing could have prepared me for it and everything ...

Anticipatory grief is the grief that happens before someone dies.  Most people are familiar with grief after a death, but with a terminal diagnosis, both ...

Human beings are one of the most social species.  Human connection is essential for our health and well-being. With the busy pace of our ‘social ...

With the arrival of COVID-19, we are all thinking a great deal more about life and death.  We are bombarded on a daily basis with ...