You've heard them, right? 🪷 My Dad passed away. 🪷 We lost Grandma. 🪷 Your brother is gone now. 🪷 We put the cat to sleep. 🪷 They're at peace now. 🪷 Your daughter is in a better place. These euphemisms all likely have come from a good place, originating from a sincere desire to provide comfort and support during one of the most challenging experiences a person can face: the death of a loved one. It is a natural human instinct to seek to soften the blow of such a profound

Grief and loss - we all experience it, but sometimes you might not recognise that’s what’s going on. Grief and loss show up in life over...

Death Cafe It's a strange term, isn't it? What do you think happens at a Death Café? Have you been to one? Would you go to one? I am quite a fan of Death Cafe's. They are a community space, where we come together to drink tea, eat cake, and dip our toes into a conversation about death and dying. A conversation that most of us avoid. Beyond this, there is no agenda. The conversation will go wherever the group requires it to go. Sometimes the group speaks about losses that they

TW: FERTILITY, GRIEF AND LOSS A place for grief, sitting in the garden I have never felt grief like being told I could not bear children. In this moment I grieved a future I had unconsciously planned. 🪷 I felt a sense of injustice at what my body was doing and what it was unable to do. 🪷 I felt shame at not being able to do what I assumed I should be able to do as a woman. 🪷 I felt guilt and responsibility at putting my partner in this position; potentially shattering his