Looking for participants on research focussing on the experiences of black Caribbean and black African people because of the impact COVID has had on black communities who have had to deal with higher levels of losses in addition to existing inequalities and traumas.
Like many others this Father’s Day, I will be faced with a public celebration that now merely marks the absence of someone I love.
Experiencing a bereavement is different for everyone and it’s different every time. Limor speaks to us about her experience with bereavement, and being supported.
Bereavement by suicide has been described as ‘grief with the volume turned up’. Jenny, who along with two friends set up the York SOBS group (Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide), shares her reflection on her own experience of bereavement by suicide.
Dr John Wilson, Director of the Bereavement Service at CMHC, has specialised in bereavement counselling for 20 years and has recently published ‘The Plain Guide to Grief’, which in plain language, tells you how you can manage your grief following a life changing loss.
In todays blog, John speaks to us about the course of grief, what you may experience, and provides some tips and guidance that may help.
Today is National Bereaved Parents Day. Organised by A Child of Mine, it’s an opportunity to raise awareness of parents and caregivers who have lost a child. By sharing our stories and keeping the conversation going we continue to show the bereaved parent community that they are not alone.
To help us carry on this important conversation, we speak to Dr. John Wilson, Director of the Bereavement Service at the Counselling and Mental Health Centre, who shares his experience and perspective.