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 […]
By Bella Lynn Thompson Grief is a personal path. No one can tell you how to walk on this journey. Personally, I think grief sucks! My husband died suddenly of a massive heart attack seven years ago. He was gorgeous inside and out, grounded, strong, affectionate, and funny. Whenever something was tough in our […]
by Kelsey and Sierra Our friendship began during our senior year of high school during church summer camp. Soon after, we became inseparable. During camp, I (Sierra) shared with Kelsey about losing my mom a few years prior. I explained my struggle with grief and how isolating it can feel. As our week ended, […]
by Tressa Bellows For most of my adult life, when asked about myself, I have started off with “I am a mom, of three beautiful daughters.” Our family of five, plus one dog, one cat and countless hamsters and beta fish, was remarkable in its beautifully simple normalcy–sleepovers, soccer games, pets, little family traditions […]
by Suzanne Elvidge My husband Tim died suddenly in February 2018. We’d had a glorious night out with friends the night before, and gossiped and snuggled as we fell asleep. Tim was restless, but that wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. And then my world fell apart in the early hours of the morning […]
by Trevor Bygate So, I would like to start by introducing myself, my name is Trevor I’m currently working for HMRC and an Army Veteran. During my Army career and life, I’ve faced many challenges, be that during my Army service or my own private life. I’ve always been strong-willed and positive and someone […]
by Domenique Rice I once had the perception that grief was linear. I once thought grief was confined to a specific timeframe, and that it had a specific element of tidiness to it. Grief couldn’t last more than a year, right? I assumed if someone talked about grief, they must be “stuck in grief” […]
by Jamie Blanco I don’t like the word closure. It implies that some terrible experience or loss has been neatly addressed, packaged up and shipped out of your mind so that you can now function “normally” without excuse for emotional relapse. It assumes it’s a place at which you need to arrive, or else […]
