Category: Personal Stories

  • Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner

    Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner

    Thank you so much to Helena, a friend of The Loss Foundation, for her review of Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner. “Honest, insightful, empathetic, […]

  • My Mind is All Over the Place

    My Mind is All Over the Place

    We often have diverse attendees at our support events; younger and older members, people who have lost partners and parents, people who had been newly bereaved, and people who had […]

  • Paramjit’s story

    Paramjit’s story

    My wife was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007, eventually losing her battle in May 2017. I share my story to help others who might have had similar experience with their […]

  • A Poem from a Group Member

    A Poem from a Group Member

    Sorrow, Sadness, Anguish, Physical and Emotional Pain, Emptiness and Aloneness, I have experienced all of them since you went away. They say Love is not without Pain, that there is […]

  • The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Megan O’Rourke

    The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Megan O’Rourke

    Thank you so much to Helena, a friend of The Loss Foundation, who has written this review on ‘The Long Goodbye’ by Megan O’Rourke. “No matter whether you’re grieving a loss that […]

  • Lyrics for Loss

    Lyrics for Loss

    Following one of our groups, one of our beneficiaries kindly shared their thoughts which we thought may be helpful for all: “As is normal with me on my home from […]

  • I Speak for Us All

    I Speak for Us All

    I was 30 years old when my wife died. Eight months previously she had been diagnosed with small cell cancer, triggered apparently by becoming pregnant with what would have been […]

  • Gifts from the Dead

    Gifts from the Dead

    Thank you Anna for sharing this beautiful poem with us: Cupboards, boxes, drawers. Lofts, cellars, rooms behind closed doors. Hampers, chests, car boots. On shelves, in wardrobes and envelopes, Pockets, […]

  • Running Brings Me Solace

    Running Brings Me Solace

    Read about Steve’s incredible achievement – running 20 marathons in 2016 to mark each year he was married to his wife Sharon, who passed away in 2015. We salute you […]

  • 20 to Life

    20 to Life

    Revital (Revi) Becker This January I have been bereaved for 20 years. Two decades have passed since my mother, Revital, died of Pancreatic Cancer. Would it surprise any of you […]

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