What I’ve been doing to support Roger and his family I’m not sure if I’ve managed to capture everything but the following list captures most of what I’ve been managing. How did it affect me? Doing the above required me to do the following: How did my experience reinforce the Read more…
Why Hattie reaches out to the Samaritans Clinging to my phone, with tears running down my cheeks, I dialled 116 123. I needed to talk. But I didn’t need advice, or for someone to tell me to breathe deeply or to go for a walk. I just needed someone to Read more…
If you know someone who is dealing with a loss, this should help guide those involved in planning what to do next e.g. registering the death, organising the funeral and so on.
Once we’re labelled a certain way, are we perceived in that way for life? Once someone is deemed a sex offender, are they always a sex offender? If the feeling is that sex offenders aren’t capable of changing and they shouldn’t be ‘let loose’; should they ever be released? It can Read more…
Why on earth did we start thinking about what happens after death when we’re so young? Suraj and I have experienced a few losses over the last few years. They’ve all taught us different things, but one of them in particular made us question what we wanted after we died. Read more…
Can you name some relationships in which you feel emotion? Does that sound weird? We feel emotions all the time don’t we? I believe that there are some relationships in which we feel emotions more intensely than others. Then there are those, where we can hide, suppress or nullify pretty much, Read more…
I wrote this article a while back. It was published in the April issue of the NYA newsletter in 1997. After spending the weekend with my grandma I thought about what will happen to other members of my family when they are older and can’t look after themselves? For that Read more…
