Grief Speaks
Nicola speaks about grief, describing it as hole, as though a piece of you is missing. She talks about grief always being present and acknowledges that there are times where it feels more obvious or noticeable, such as at significant life moments.
Nicola speaks about finding it healthy to embrace grief; to talk about the person we remember, to share memories, listen to music, and to share how we feel with others too. She also recognizes the need to have something, someone or somewhere that grounds us, that offers comfort - never underestimate the support of a loving loyal dog!
Grace speaks about her time growing up in Northern Ireland during the times of ‘the troubles’. She shares about friends that died and the impact that had on her.
Grace went on to train as a nurse and became known as the ‘Death Nurse’ by her colleagues because she dared to stand in the gap and sit with people and their families in those final moments.
Lucy speaks about the death of her father. She shares honestly about the hurt and confusion surrounding his death and about what it looks like for her to grieve.
Lucy also shares a fantastic analogy about growing with grief, one that she’s found to be true and one which begins to make some sense of what it looks like to live with grief.
Laura speaks about death and how she’s found that love lives on. Laura talks honestly about the agonizing, messy and chaotic darkness of grief and recognizes how important it is that we talk with others about how we feel.
As a vicar Laura’s reflections come from a faith perspective. She wrestles with the seeming absence of God yet clings to her belief that even when life doesn’t make sense there is a loving God who holds all things and who offers eternal rest and peace.
Jo speaks honestly about death and suggests it’s not always the end, and that death like experiences can be observed throughout the realities of life. She shares about the death of her friend dying and reflects on how she and her friends family responded in their grief.
Jo gets spiritual and explores life, death and beyond as well as inspiring us all with a mantra…’I’ll sleep when I’m dead’!
Catherine speaks from a place of very raw grief after the death of her friend at the age of 38, just a month before the video was recorded.
Living in New Zealand she shares how she’s grieved from a distance, how she’s responded by channeling her grief creatively and how she’s reached out to people close to home and back in the UK. She recognizes the impact COVID has had on the way we grieve and offers an honest perspective on grieving when the circumstances we find ourselves in are forcing us to grieve perhaps less naturally than we might otherwise have done.