So, I haven’t posted anything for a while, but I thought this would be good to highlight.
National Grief Awareness Week runs from Monday 02 December to Sunday 08 December 2024. The idea is to highlight the fact that we will all grieve the loss of someone, or something, from time to time. When we do face this, how do we process our grief? We may choose to sweep it under the carpet, pretend it never happened, keep calm and carry on. But the healthy thing is to talk to someone, to process the emotions that we carry. Otherwise they just stay buried, and who knows when they might rear their head again.
The loss of loved ones is, of course, something than none of us want to face. We will all experience other kinds of loss too – loss of job, loss of mobility or health, loss of a sense of purpose, or even a loss of role when for example the kids leave home and we think ‘who am I now?’
If you do choose to talk about it to someone, make sure that they are prepared just to listen and to be with you in your grief. Here’s a useful quote from Dutch Theologian Henri Nouwen:
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion,
who can stay with us in the hour of grief and bereavement,
who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing…
that is a friend who cares.”
There is help out there. You can fill in the form on my Contact page. Alternatively, here is a link to the At A Loss website: