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Today it is Me that Writes…
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Jamie’s story
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Taking Our Own Advice in Grief
Many of the people we support at The Loss Foundation express frustration at a lack of receiving useful information when they become bereaved; nobody tells you that you may lose your concentration, your confidence, your appetite, that you may become more irritable, that you may be disappointed by those you relied on… And so much…
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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, uplifting. These are only a few of the words that describe Modern Loss, an extensive collection of personal essays about death and loss, and the…
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Conducting Ethical Research with Vulnerable Populations
At The Loss Foundation we are committed to learning more about peoples’ experiences of bereavement to better inform the support services that we provide. We are dedicated to providing a service that is informed by your experiences and needs. In order to achieve this goal we carry out a number of research projects ourselves and partake…
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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 been bereaved for a while longer (although still recently in the scheme of things!) Diversity can often be a theme of discussion at our events,…
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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 own loss, and also to help raise awareness of this horrible disease. She was a very loving/caring wife, mother and grandmother and was very active,…
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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 a dying to ourselves, when the other is away. It is better to have Loved, than not at all. I have so much gratitude, that…
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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 occurred weeks, months or years ago, Megan O’Rourke’s personal account of her mother’s death provides eye-opening food for thought on coping with bereavement. In The…
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Lyrics for Loss
