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Hello from The Grief Observatory
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Quietly
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How do we know when we are ready to get back out there?
Over peopling, grief and introversion
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The Darkest Depths
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Resilience
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Quietly
Yes, I know I said I’d be popping on here more frequently when I last wrote to you, but sometimes life, or more accurately, death, has other plans.
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How do we know when we are ready to get back out there?
As regular readers of The Grief Observatory know, I wrote regularly here, every week, for 20 weeks, before starting a Masters in Creative Writing last…
Resilience
Thanks for sticking with me despite my sporadic posting. While I knew that starting my Masters in Creative Writing would reduce the amount of spare time…
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The Darkest Depths
Death is everywhere this month.
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Autumnal reflections on balance
It’s taken me a few weeks longer than I anticipated to come back to writing here after my summer break. I blame the weather! My intention in my last…
Why I'm taking a summer break
(and so should you!)
Rest
I briefly mentioned in my post two weeks ago on bereavement leave that one of the things I did was rest a lot. I don’t mind admitting that this was…
Book Recommendations
I’ve always been an avid reader, so it felt natural for me to seek out books about grief after my daughter died. Some of the grief books helped me feel…
Bereavement Leave
I was updating an Employee Handbook for a client this week, and one of the changes was to include the right of bereaved parents of under 18 year olds to…
The Grief Observatory by Jennie Horchover
The Grief Observatory by Jennie Horchover
Observations on grief as a personal and cultural experience approached with compassionate curiosity.
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