Grief

Sunday will be bittersweet ….

May 11, 2018

I wrote this piece three years ago. It is as true today as it was then … **** It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday and truth be told if…

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Stories about feathers and telephones and grief and a little boy called Hamish …

May 1, 2018

No matter how hard we try, we cannot out-run death or grief. Tomorrow, is the birthday of my goddaughter May who was stillborn nearly two decades ago. Tomorrow…

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Some advice for the family and friends of Ada Nicodemou

August 16, 2014

I was in the kitchen last night buttering toast for my five-year-old daughter – when my husband gasped from behind his laptop. I looked up. “Ada Nicodemou’s  baby…

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I was hurting and this is what helped

August 16, 2014

I have a stock-standard answer that I give when people ask me – and they always ask me – how I survived the death of my daughter Georgie…

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