- May 11
- 8 min
When it's not just resilience: A response to Piers Morgan
During Mental Health Awareness Week, how sad, but unsurprising, to see Piers Morgan, blasting it all as “crap” and telling grievers,...

- May 8
- 4 min
You can run...
Why do we try to out-run grief? When a part of our body hurts, our instinct is to move or adjust our position to relieve the pain and...

- Mar 30
- 5 min
Back to Life
When I was first widowed, the constant thought going round in my head was “I don’t know how to do this”. How was I going to wake up...

- Feb 4
- 4 min
The Goldilocks Zone
I get that this title is obscure, but stay with me! Out for dinner this week with a group of work associates I hadn’t seen in some time...

- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
The Festive Rollercoaster
If you're a young widow reading this, then you made it through Christmas 2021! Give yourself a huge pat on the back - we did it! Whether...

- Nov 29, 2021
- 5 min
The most wonderful time of the year...
If there was ever a time of year to throw the worst of being widowed into sharp relief, you’d struggle to find a better example than...

- Aug 3, 2021
- 4 min
At least... you should... they would want...
There's a poem that keeps popping up on my newsfeed that really grates on me. It's a widely shared poem, often read at funerals. I have...