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 […]
By Emily Smith I’ve been experiencing grief since childhood, though at that time it was unnamed. Grief was an unwelcomed, nameless visitor sitting at the dinner table, lurking in the shadows. I first experienced grief as I witnessed my mother’s struggles with her mental health intensify, to the point that being a mother was […]
By Kate Hammond At around 2:30 a.m. on February 9, 2021, I felt our one-year-old son Miles take his final breath. My husband and I put our hands on his tiny little chest as his heart slowed and then stopped, those final beats taking with them the world as we knew it. Even though […]
By Karen Sykes I am a 55-year-old nurse a widow, a mum of three daughters and a grandma to Eleanor Bethany. In October 2015, suddenly and completely out of the blue, I lost my beloved husband Ian to suicide. Ian was a vibrant, clever, funny and kind man who was a devoted father. His […]
By Claudia Chappel I was a single mother to two wonderful very young children and a successful professional artist. I supported them by painting tiles for people’s homes. It allowed me to be home with my children. At the age of 53, I experienced the unimaginable. There was a knock at my door and […]
