Bereavement and Loss

Death is the one experience that will reach every single one of us. We will all lose people we love. Most of us will face our own mortality. And yet, as a culture, we have become skilled at talking around it rather than about it. This week is Dying Matters Awareness Week, run by Hospice UK, with the theme ‘Let’s Talk About Death and Dying.’ For many people, conversations about death are among the hardest to start. Feelings get bottled up, needs go unspoken, and the conversati

If you've recently experienced a loss, you might be wondering if what you're feeling is "normal." Maybe you're angry when you think you should be sad. Maybe you feel nothing at all when everyone expects you to be crying. Or maybe you're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix, and you can't understand why choosing what to have for breakfast feels impossible. Here's what I want you to know: grief is messier, more complicated, and more individual than most people realize.