What did you do when you first woke up this morning? Make a cuppa? Check the emails on your phone? Turn on the radio? Roll over and try to get a bit more sleep? All of these are choices. Personal agency, you could say, or without it, a sense of helplessness. Any lack of personal…
A post for anyone whose mind is filled with sad or difficult thoughts, particularly related to your grief. Discovering what makes your grief more bearable during the lockdown is going to be individual to you, but maybe you’ll get some ideas here. Originally written in May 2020 – it seems appropriate to revisit this now…
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However painful your grief at this moment, there will be days in the year ahead when you will wake up and realise that there is (at least) one thing that you are looking forward to. There will be days that end with the thought, “I’m glad I did that today.” And that’s how you’ll get through 2021.
For some people reading this, it will be your first Christmas without your loved one, whereas others will already know the sadness of missing a loved one at this time of year. The pandemic and enforced social isolation might be making this time worse than it could have been. I have already written much about…
Some readings and reflections for those who are grieving this Christmas season. This is a bit of food for thought that hopefully you will find meaningful and not trite. It can be a really difficult time of year because of grief, and it might be particularly so at the moment during the pandemic. So I…
A general post about not feeling a failure, no matter how we cope with Christmas when we’re grieving.
A picture post and reflection on living with grief and adapting to the season of life in which we find ourselves. If we think of the procession of our lives as seasons, then many of us would prefer less of autumn, the season of loss, and less of the dark chill of winter, and more…
