Coping With Grief During Autumn.
Grief can be heightened or re-awakened as the year comes to a close. Whether your loss is recent or years have passed, autumn can be a difficult time for people with depression, or those grieving the death of a loved one. Weather and seasons can have a...
40 Years, 40 Lessons.
My Grief Journey. As I approach my 4-0 birthday, I’ve spent a great deal of time reflecting on life so far. The last decade has been a mixed bag of profound loss, grief and losing myself. But what has emerged from all this has been better than I ever...
Soothing Grief With The Sounds Of Healing.
Grief is such a multi-layered beast that can evolve and change from one moment to the next, and if you’re looking for a definitive answer when it comes to healing or releasing it, there just isn’t one. Grief is very unique and it’s a personal process for...
How Do You Eat When You’re Grieving?
Food and Mood. Grief affects people in different ways - whether we're talking about bereavement, redundancy or the breakdown of a relationship. Feeling down and anxious following a loss can affect our eating habits, which in turn can affect our mood. Some...
5 Ways To Make Meditation Easy.
If you find meditation a bit of a struggle then firstly, please know this is normal. Meditation is something that hasn’t always come easily to me and is still an evolution. I want you to recognise that practising mindfulness is all about the journey rather...
Everything You Need To Know About Delayed Grief.
I lost my mum in traumatic circumstances. It was my first experience of sudden death. I was 25 years old and all I could think to do after the funeral, was go back to work and carry on. Nobody had suggested that I was most likely still in shock. About a...
10 Signs and Symptoms You Have Anticipatory Grief.
In 2012, I lost my dad to Dementia. My grief started long before his death. Dementia - like other long term or terminal illnesses, causes family and friends to experience what's known as ‘anticipatory grief’. When we know a loved one is approaching their...
8 Reasons Why Exercise Helps Grief.
I’ve never defined myself as sporty or athletic, I’m a control freak who likes certainty. If you’d told me 15 years ago that I'd leave a well-paid job to run my own business supporting women to love their bodies and lift there mood through movement, I...
My Secret Strategy For Dealing With Family Conflict.
It was back in February 2019, when I wrote about how to avoid family conflict after loss. It wasn’t until a recent live interview on this very subject, I realised that for some people it’s too late. The conflict has already arrived. So how do we deal with...
5 Tips For Coping With Pet Loss.
As a “fur-mom,” I never realised how deeply the grief of losing our beloved “fur-baby” would penetrate my heart, until I began the grieving journey. When you don’t have human children, your pet becomes your "fur-baby". They fill a place in your heart you...