'Life is a book...
Some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting.
But if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter has in store for you.'

Grief is a profound Universal experience that can be heart-wrenching and overwhelming. A friend of mine who lost her mother explained grief as 'having love with nowhere to go.'

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Grief is the experience of complex emotions.

What is worse than Grief? When you add Trauma to it. Losing a child is a Trauma...You need to understand that.

That  is why the pain of it feels that your loss will last forever, it feels unbearable.

Dr Bessel van der Kolk, describes trauma as the 'feeling that it will last forever.'

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If you are a friend and find it hard to offer support to someone who has lost a loved one, it can be uncomfortable and finding the right words or the right thing to say can be challenging. 

Everyone deals with grief differently. My free Downloadable PDF helps you through this difficult path.

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It is about offering the right kind of support without saying or doing anything that would hinder their journey through this life-changing event and without suffering from ‘compassion fatigue’.

What is that? – Click on the Free ebook below – ‘The faces of grief’.

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To be human is to know grief, we are all going to experience it, or we have experienced it.

The more that we can understand it and name it, the more we can talk about it and ask for the support we need.