Plan for tomorrow, live for today
Holidays and anniversary dates are always tough when you have lost a loved one. Birthdays, death anniversaries, Christmas… but one particular date that often brings up a lot of mixed feelings is Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day – or St Valentine’s is defined as celebrating romantic …
It is human nature to try and fix problems, but there are some things that can’t be made better. In death, trying look on the bright side or fix something is a tool lots of people reach towards when talking to someone who has suffered …
Early January marks the tradition for many of us to think about New Year resolutions. The dictionary defines a New Year resolution as “A promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one’s behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year …
How unprepared I was Up until my friend died, I had pretty much skipped through life, having not been particularly confronted with death. I had the, what I would call, ‘standard’ experiences of death and dying up until this point such as elderly people, grandparents …