Archive - The Grief Observatory by Jennie Horchover

Hi, just a quick post to share a poem about Hope that I wrote for Advent Sunday.

Dec 2, 2024

November 2024

Do I have to write off November?

This time last week I went to write a post, and then realised that this post from a year ago summed up all that I wanted to say.

Nov 9, 2024

June 2024

Making time for grief

I’ve written before about grief hangovers (6 May 2023) and the effect grief has on our nervous system (22 and 29 April 2023), and yet, over a year after…

Jun 22, 2024

May 2024

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.

May 4, 2024

March 2024

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…

Mar 2, 2024

January 2024

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…

Jan 21, 2024

November 2023

The Darkest Depths

Death is everywhere this month.

Nov 18, 2023

September 2023

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…

Sep 30, 2023

July 2023

Why I'm taking a summer break

(and so should you!)

Jul 22, 2023

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…

Jul 15, 2023

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…

Jul 8, 2023

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…

Jul 1, 2023

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