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SITE GUIDES

Pages with a collection of articles on a particular topic

Shocked! Heartbroken! Readings for the newly bereaved 

A collection of articles especially selected for the newly bereaved who are struggling with the initial impact of their loss.

Memories and Continuing Bonds

A collection of blog posts and articles on the topic of our new relationship of memory with our loved one, and includes some of the ‘‘theory’ behind  ‘continuing bonds’.

The unique pain of child bereavement: Readings for parents 

Some articles on the impact of losing a child and surviving this agonising bereavement.

Grief and your health

A lot of people struggle with their health following bereavement. This post links to articles about the impact that grief can have on our health and ideas of what we can do about it.

 

INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES – TABLE OF CONTENTS

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• Living with Loss: Finding the way through grief
• The Forward View
• Particular types of loss (Sudden death including by suicide, widows/widowers, those with mental illness or troubled lives)
  
• Christian perspectives on grief and loss
• Personal stories

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LIVING WITH LOSS: FINDING THE WAY THROUGH GRIEF

Life and survival strategies

• Coping with the first anniversary
• Expressing our emotions when we’re grieving
• Feeling vulnerable is common when we’re grieving
• Be kind to yourself!
• A ten minute trip in time and space
• Survival strategies
• Finding the stillness in grief
• Bird-watching and grief
• Waking up
• Self-identities and taking a break from grief
• On the freshly – painted bench
• Is the glass half-full, half-empty or something else instead?

Our unique experience of loss

• Life-changing loss: Walking a different path, missing a limb
• If: Dealing with the ‘if’s of grief
• Grieving: Nature’s way of helping a broken heart

The emotional rollercoaster

• Feeling vulnerable is common when we’re grieving
• No way forwards, no way back: Getting stuck
• Griefbursts: Moments of mad grief
• Is your grief a muddy river?

• The salve of pessimism: Taking life a moment at a time
• Problems of positive thinking and grief

Coping with “special days” – birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries

• Christmas is nearly upon us. How do we cope when we’re grieving?
• Not failing at Christmas
• Christmas perplexities if you’re living with loss
• At the dawning of a new year
• Getting ready for Christmas, when the one you love is no longer here
• Teardrops replacing baubles: “Say their name at Christmas”

Particular challenges

• Before and after: anticipating the death of a loved one, coping when they die
• Bereaved of a loved one with mental illness or disorder
• After death discoveries: The good, the bad, the ugly
• Grieving multiple losses
• Inquests (in England and Wales)
• The special difficulties of losing a loved one when they are abroad

Family and friends 

• Words matter: the language of grief
• Tickling the tomatoes; families and grief.

• Sent into a tailspin, finding equilibrium: Coping with other people’s responses to our grief.

THE FORWARD VIEW

Getting support when you’re grieving

• Internet support forums – pros and cons
• Finding companionship in grief
• The solidarity of grief
• Grief counselling – it can help

The forward view

• Death and changing values
• Why hitchhiking is not like grief
• Plotting the future; priorities in a grief journey
• Starting again after loss — can it be done?
• Barnie the dog, & a reflection on the future of grief.
• The path of aloneness: we can manage

How long is this going to last?

• How long is this going to last? When’s the grieving over?
• The Window that Vanished
• The Calendar of Grief
• The longevity of grief: Mind the gap

Walking the Way – the journey of grief, the Camino

• Walking the Way – Part 1
• One step after another (Walking the way, Part 2)
• Finding a way when it seems impossible (Walking the Way, Part 3)
• Opening up to others in our grief journey (The Way Part 4)
• Which way? Decision-making & grief. (The Way Part 5)

 

PARTICULAR TYPES OF LOSSES

• Women & grief: Wives, mothers, sisters, daughters

 

Losing a partner

• One step at a time; life and grief after the loss of a partner.
• Coping with the loss of a partner

Sudden deaths, including by suicide

• Everything changed in a moment – grieving sudden death.
• The pain of sudden death
• Bereaved by suicide
• Explanation about the Bereaved by Suicide Retreat, January 2019 (PDF download)
• Bereaved by suicide – a supported retreat

Mental illness & those with troubled lives

• Bereaved of a loved one with mental illness or disorder
• Mental health: It’s not “in your head”; it’s actually in the brain
• Judgement, criticism and grief
• Is the glass half-full, half-empty or something else instead? 
• A difficult life; a sad ending
• Death following mental health treatment

 

CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON GRIEF AND LOSS

• Easter hopes – whispers and shouts
• Grieving “senseless” death – when nothing is as it should be
• From Palm Sunday to Easter: The language of grief
• Dreams and dreaming when you’re grieving
• Out of the depths
• The little mercies of grief
• Living with loss, but living with hope
• Spring equinox; grief at Easter
• Mourning deeply
• Alongside one another

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SOME PERSONAL STORIES

• The pausing of grief
• Profound joy, profound sadness
• The Before and After-ness of grief
• The aloneness of grief
• Perspectives: reading the view (A walk in the Lake District)
• Scotland tour: Memorials, grief and love
• Pax is 38 today! Happy Birthday!
• Time to grieve, space for a breather
• Tiles on an old church roof
• The shipping forecast
• Trying something new

My story

• Grieving for my two children (My Story- Part 1)
• The Holocaust – My story, Part 2

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ON SUPPORTING OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE GRIEVING – “GRIEF COMPANIONSHIP”

Visit the Grief Companion website

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(This page last updated 20/6/19)

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