Author: J. Broad

Throughout March we've been thinking about the human experience of grief & bereavement. We considered grief & bereavement as a unique personal experience but with some common themes & patterns that characterise loss. In this post I shall try to bring together the key elements & ideas into a summary that I hope you will… Continue reading Enduring Connections

So far we've considered grief as a process of detachment from that which we have lost. We may be told we need to move on and people try to reassure us that time will heal our wounds, that somehow the passing of time will gradually make things easier for us. Perhaps they are right. I'm… Continue reading Come With Me..

'She's gone but I can feel her presence. Sometimes I talk to her like she's here. At other times I feel like she's just popped out and half expect her to come back at any moment. And then I realise she won't.. because she can't. And then there are those fleeting moments when I think… Continue reading One More Day…

One of the most distressing experiences we may endure in life is that of losing someone close to us. We become ‘attached’ to the people in life that we love and the loss of their presence to us kick starts a distressing process of ‘detachment’ that we commonly call Bereavement & Grief. We are used… Continue reading Holding On

It was just over a year ago that the first known cases of Coronavirus reached Ireland & the UK. Since then there have been over 4 thousand COVID 19 related deaths in Ireland and over 123 thousand deaths in the UK. Globally, there have been over 2.5 million COVID 19 related deaths. If we lit… Continue reading Eternal Flames: Grief And Loss