With the loss of someone or something precious to us, our first reaction is often denial. We might be lost for words and numb for feelings. It’s just too hard to believe that we will never see our loved one again. Our heart is broken. It hurts, and we believe it will always be this […]
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Dear Mum, I miss you so much. Every single day. This Mother’s Day, I want to shout the message, “I miss you,” to you my dearest mum in heaven. Aren’t special days and anniversaries supposed to be happy occasions? But when the ones dearest to you aren’t here any longer, they become really hard. Saying
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Grief recently entered our lives again. It turned up like an uninvited guest without announcing its arrival. But then, grief does often come unexpectedly. And it seems to be able to find us, no matter how hard we may try to hide from it. Coping with grief and loss is a journey that often calls
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The past few months have been incredibly hard for us again. At the start of the summer, we found out that my mother-in-law, Mum as I used to call her, had cancer. We didn’t, however, expect that we would lose her just three months later. This was heartbreaking. ‘Why, why again?’ I started to question.
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Gratitude has helped me enormously since my accident two and a half years ago. During this time we have been practising gratitude each night before going to sleep. It has helped me to see the light in the darkness of tough times. However, after receiving heartbreaking news from my husband’s immediate family, we found ourselves
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It’s been over a week since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. I remember sharing a post on Instagram just a day after she passed away. And I wasn’t the only one; many of us did so. Even though I don’t consider myself a royalist, it was a way of paying tribute to a woman
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I wrote this letter to heaven nine years after she’s gone. A letter addressed to my mum in heaven. She has been looking after me from there with such love and care, as always. A letter to heaven “My dear mum in heaven, there hasn’t been a day that I didn’t miss you. I miss
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