At the start of the year I joined a book club. Not in the normal sense but a club of fellow authors who all write to help with children’s mental and physical wellbeing. The club was put together by Sue Atkins, The Parenting Expert, and there are now around fifty of us! Over the coming […]
As part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, I have asked a couple of people in the Funeral and Bereavement industry to come and guest blog on my site. The first of my guests is John Adams of Perry and Phillips Funeral Directors in Shropshire. I first met John and his family two years ago at […]
As we enter this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, with the theme being Nature, I had planned to write a little about how much I love living by water. Having grown up in Macclesfield, about 15 miles south of Manchester, the best we had up there was a river and a few canals! We spent […]
Back in February, Huunuu ran a virtual literary festival about death, dying, bereavement and loss. As part of the festival they collected real life stories to be published on their website. Today, mine went live. “I feel I have lived with grief for most of my life. My brother died when I was eleven, a […]
With all primary pupils heading back to school in England next week, I wanted to remind you of At Times I Get These Feelings: Helping children with emotions. Knowing how my own child has been emotionally, and how he was when he returned to school in September, I feel this book could be of great use […]
I shared the photo and post below to my Facebook page last March. Little did I know that nine months later we’d have experienced over 80,000 Covid related deaths here in the UK. With our daily figures rising the way they have been, once again I want to pass on my love and respect to […]
A friend recently shared ‘A Box of Stories‘ on Facebook and it caught my eye. I had a look into the company and thought it was a brilliant idea! So, I ordered my first box, which arrived this morning… These are not necessarily titles I would choose, or have even heard of before, but I […]
Happy New Year to you all. It seems a strange greeting considering our current circumstances… However, I trust you all had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year, despite restrictions. I had planned this note for much earlier in the week but the dreaded home-schooling returned quite unexpectedly and it has taken a few days to […]
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As we navigate through a second wave of Covid, with death rates expected to exceed those from the first peak earlier in the year, we need to make sure that our younger generation are supported. If a child does not deal with a bereavement properly, at the right time, it can cause problems for that […]