By Cynthia Spillman The day that totally tore my life to shreds started out like any other day. It was November 20, 1987, and I was taking my five-year-old son Anthony and my seven-year-old daughter Samantha to school. The children were laughing in the back of the car. I slowed down to turn right […]
By Kim Smith I’m one very lucky lady to have survived sepsis, but I became a quadruple amputee because of it and I’ve been left with post-sepsis syndrome which causes daily struggles too. In November 2017, I was on holiday in Spain and started getting pain in my left side kidney area. I suspected […]
By Widowed at 24 I was 24 years old when I was widowed; my husband of two years and lifelong best friend was only 29 when he departed. It seemed impossible that someone as full of life as him, with his contagious laugh and thirst for adventure, could be gone, almost as soon as […]
By Stephanie Dawson When I think about grief, I think of death right away, as most of us do, then it goes right into other types of loss; divorce, career, health, home, never becoming a desired result (parent, professional athlete, writer, traveler, etc). All types of loss are valid, painful, and need love and […]
By Sarah Day My name is Sarah Day and the best thing that has ever happened to me was becoming a mum to my four children. The worst thing that has happened to me was losing one of them. I’m sharing my feelings about bereavement in my life in the hope it may help […]
By Nicky Wake I lost my soulmate and husband Andy Wake in March 2020. He was the John to my Yoko, a beautiful, wonderful gentle soul and the world is a much poorer place now that Andy isn’t here. I met Andy during the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002. We actually met online […]
By YEG Widow Grief is an individual journey, defined by the traveller carving the path. No one chooses to be on this new road, but what each of us can choose is how we walk it, dance it, and move forward on it. My widowhood journey began on August 10, 2021. My husband passed […]
By Melissa Pierce I didn’t think I could do this alone… raising and parenting two really energetic and rambunctious boys. And I didn’t have to, I had my husband Dave. We were a really good team, great partners and parents…together. We loved each other and this family we created — the four of us… […]
By Sasha Howell When your parents die a piece of you dies with them. However, when your parents die, a new piece of you is also born. I was 29 years old on January 28, 2013, when my Mom was killed instantly in a car crash. We had returned from a trip to Cuba […]
By Derek Richford Harry was born on November 2, 2017, and died seven days later following gross failings in care at East Kent Hospitals Trust in Kent, U.K. My daughter-in-law Sarah and my son Tom had a text-book pregnancy with no issues at all, it was considered to be a low-risk pregnancy. When he […]
