I was going to write a tongue-in-cheek blog about ‘competitive grave visiting’ within a family that someone once told me about. And I will do that. But today is the anniversary of my dad’s death, so instead I’m going to… Read More »Letting grief take the reins
Try with all your might – you can’t predict or control grief. You can only allow space for it to do what it needs to do
Sarah Playforth talks about the grief of loss – of people she loved, of her hearing at a young age – and becoming the matriarch of the family
I’ve got a sticky conundrum at the moment and it’s absorbing a lot of mental energy, trying to decide what to do. I am lucky to have very fine friends. But they have a great deal going on in their… Read More »Advice from the living. Or dead
In the months before she died, my sister, swore. A lot. Much to the horror of her youngest child. “I’ve been raising children for 25 years,” she said. “There are a lot of ‘fucks’ to come out.” I appreciate it’s… Read More »Sometimes it IS big and clever
I thought it might be helpful to introduce myself and explain a bit about why I trained as a funeral celebrant. Sadly, I lost a very beloved sister in 2019. She was far too young and it was an awful… Read More »A beautiful farewell