Category " Coping with bereavement"

Sometimes we never know who may pop up in our lives again or when we meet someone how our paths may cross somewhere down the line. Way back in early February (in what feels like a different lifetime) I was invited to be keynote speaker at the Business Mums Unite conference in Nottingham on 19th […]

Back on October 10th 1999 I did a single spontaneous gesture which has subsequently changed the direction of my life and impacted on others! It was the day I attended a service at church to recognise World Mental Health Day. At that service I felt the urge to briefly share my story of postnatal illness. From […]

How many times do you put off the inevitable? What are you avoiding? What is stopping you from moving forward? These were the questions I considered with respect to clearing Clive’s clothes. It is now 7 months (31 weeks) since Clive died. Apart from re-decorating the master bedroom and moving the office into the smallest […]

Regular readers know all about my link with the Joanne (Joe) Bingley Memorial Foundation. You will know that just over a year ago I was contacted by a friend of Joe’s, Dinah, who asked if I could help improve services in the Huddersfield area. Joe had taken her own life a few weeks after having […]

This week has been a good example of customer service – brilliant and not! Mum and I spent some time in London last Tuesday, the day after we’d seen Shayne Ward in Rock of Ages. I was still feeling good for the first time properly since I lost Clive! I then left Mum to get the train […]