After a bereavement, places can become powerful reminders There are places that seem to hold a life within them. A favourite beach, a particular restaurant where you celebrated an anniversary, a park where you walked together every Sunday, a holiday cottage where you made memories that once felt as though they would belong to you forever, the house you shared, the pub where you first met... Even the supermarket where you always did the weekly shop together. Then something cha

Over the years I tried a few times to talk to people I considered friends or work colleagues, and invariably it ended badly. Judgement, ridicule, open denial that it was a cause of death, or that I was in denial myself that it was suicide.

The experiences revealed through the Ockenden Inquiry serve as a reminder that grief is not simply a response to death.

As a grief and loss specialist, I spend my days supporting people through some of the most devastating experiences of their lives. But I'm also a widow.

The arts are vital to our world and being creative provides us with an opportunity to explore what fascinates us and to realise those ideas and emotions.

Following recent coverage on This Morning, the term “widow’s fire” has been brought into public conversation once again. For many, it can feel surprising, even uncomfortable to hear it discussed so openly.

When you move to another country, you don’t always get a clear ending. You leave behind a place that once felt familiar, a language that once came naturally, and a version of yourself that existed within that context.

Grief is not something we power past without consequence. It is both an emotional and physiological experience, and the body has a way of signalling when it needs us to stop, even if the mind insists on carrying on.