This week is Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week and whilst it has been great to see so many issues raised and talks of depression and anxiety addressed so publicly, one topic I have seen far less of, both this week and in general, is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Whilst PTSD following a traumatic…
Dear Stranger, I want to start by saying that I truly love my job, nothing will ever change that. I love waking up every morning to do something I love, to be creative, to make memories and most of all to spend time with the family I waited for such a long time to have….
Having spent the the last 14 years trying to come to terms with the loss of Joseph, I felt quite confident that I had reached a point where life had started to get that tiny bit easier, where I could share our story with clarity and acceptance, where I could carry my grief in a…
Anyone who knows our family will tell you that Lewis was always destined to be a big brother. From the first day we told him, just two years old, that there was a baby in my tummy to grow with and love, he had beamed with excitement. And as we prepared for Joseph’s arrival, picked…
One of the things that breaks my heart when speaking to other bereaved parents is when they tell me that experience of losing a child was made ten times worse by the ignorance of others. So many bereaved parents explain how, at some point in their grieving process, they have been left devastated and hurt…
This weekend, driving along in the car with the children, Megan asked me to wind down the back window and when I did she stuck her hand outside and murmured faint whisperings into the wind. “What are you doing Megs?” I asked, glancing at her in the rear view mirror, wondering what had caught her…