The healing power of nature June 2023 It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog and have to admit to feeling a little apprehensive. Stepping out of life seems to have partially shut down my brain. Maybe it’s my heart trying to protect my head or...
March 2023 We do a lot of staring into sunsets - it’s where we see him 💛 “Grief is love’s shadow. The presence of absence. An unbearable weight of emptiness” - John Mark Green If you have recently lost your darling child - I’m so so sorry. Right now...
February 2023 The kitchen table - 2023 “life has been painfully splitinto a “before” and “after”my heart won’t let me forget. “before”is full of memories,of time spent with youand an ache thatit wasn’t enoughthat i needed moreto hold on to. “after”is full of memoriesthat should havehad you...
2022 into 2023 Artwork by domtsoi.com (Ben’s friend) I struggle every time someone wishes me ‘happy new year’ and can’t quite bring myself to say it back. Happy isn’t what it used to be - and how can we possibly assume a new year will be happy? 2018...
September 2022 - almost 4 years without Ben I often wonder why I keep writing - why after almost four years I haven’t managed to get to grips with grief. Why it’s such a complex and multifaceted enigma! But of course it’s not that easy -...
August 2022 “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Bible tells us to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger (James 1:19). Good advice of course!! I grew up trying to live by those principles...
July 2022 ‘Parental grief is forever boundless, an ever-present, deep-seated wound that has no name. There’s a reason no label has been ascribed to those who have lost a child — it is too foreign a concept, a much too chaotic form of brain freeze, an...
April 2022 Inverted:‘Changed from the normal position by being turned upside down or arranged in the opposite order’https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/inverted Absence is the opposite of presence. When a precious child dies everything is inverted. Our lives feel like they’ve been turned upside down and rearranged in the opposite order....
March 2022 Life grinds to a halt when you lose a loved one. It feels like you’re suspended in a time warp - stuck between the life you knew and the life you don’t want to know. You can’t go back and dread going forward. But...