Read our posts about Loss

16Apr

Grief and Trauma After a Sudden Bereavement

Saul Hillman

grief, loss, trauma

Therapists

Dr Saul Hillman shares his own experience of sudden bereavement, the loss of his mother, to illustrate the impact of trauma and grief
» Read More

09Apr

Supporting Your Partner After Baby Loss

Kay King

bereavement, body, couples, grief, health, loss, marriage, miscarriage, parenthood, parenting, pregnancy, relationships

Relationships

Losing a baby at any stage of pregnancy can be devastating. Grief specialist and author of Why Baby Loss Matters Kay King explores how you can support your partner at this time of grief.
» Read More

16Mar

Mourning the Everyday Things We Took For Granted

Lianna Champ

coronavirus, grief, identity, loss

Mind

The Covid pandemic and lockdows have seen us stripped of our usual ways of being. Lianna Champ explores grief in the context of living losses, those less tangible and harder to describe moments of grieving.
» Read More

03Mar

What is Anticipatory or Imagined Grief?

Saul Hillman

bereavement, grief, loss

Therapists

Anticipatory grief describes a mourning that may happen before a death that is expected; imaginary grief may be seen as that which we experience as a result of thoughts of loss and death being triggered by other events. Dr Saul Hillman shares his own experience of imagined grief in the months leading up to his mother's unexpected death.
» Read More

08Feb

How to Navigate Hard Conversations After a Terminal Diagnosis

Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones

bereavement, cancer, grief, illness, loss

Relationships

Receiving a terminal diagnosis can understandably have an immense psychological impact on the individual and their family and friends. Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones, who works in palliative care, offers advice on how to have difficult conversations around death and dying.
» Read More

07Jan

COVIDSpeakEasy: Providing Support to Bereaved Partners

COVIDSpeakEasy

bereavement, coronavirus, grief, loss

Relationships

COVIDSpeakEasy is a free and confidential online support group for all Covid bereaved life-partners. Edwina fitzPatrick, who lost her partner of 21 years, explains how the SpeakEasy works.
» Read More

16Dec

How Catherine Mayer and Her Mother Coped With Grief After Losing Their Husbands

Louise Chunn

bereavement, books, coronavirus, grief, loss, therapy

Relationships

Co-founder of the Women's Equality Party Catherine Mayer lost her husband musician Andy Gill shortly after her mother's husband died. Together they have written a book about grief and consolation
» Read More

09Dec

What I Learned Being With My Sister When She Died

Elizabeth Vann

bereavement, coronavirus, death, grief, loss, society

Soul

Elizabeth Vann, who has bipolar disorder, shares her experience of being with her sister when she died – the challenges and the positives
» Read More

28Oct

6 Ways to Cope with The Mental Health Impact of Redundancy

Caroline Ingram

career, coronavirus, identity, loss, redundancy, self, work

Therapists

The Covid-19 pandemic means many face job-related uncertainty and potential redundancy. Therapist Caroline Ingram explores the mental health impact of losing your job, and offers 6 ways to manage.
» Read More

15Oct

Our Story of Baby Loss

Charlotte Owen

bereavement, grief, loss, miscarriage, pregnancy, women

Body

Charlotte Owen and her partner experienced four miscarriages before the birth of their son, who they welcomed to the world at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic – here's their story
» Read More