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6 Life Lessons From a Man Who’s Seen 12,000 Deaths

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  This video features Bhairav Shukla, who was manager for 44 years of a guest house for the dying in a place called Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India. The same town is also know as Kashi by Hindus, many of … Continue reading →

Personal rituals to carry us through grief

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‘Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.’ Rabindranath Tagore I hesitated to use the word ‘ritual’ in this blog post. I’ve noticed some people associate that term exclusively with indoctrinated religious … Continue reading →

How Preparing for Grief and Death Benefit us in Life

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Imagine enduring the process of childbirth if you didn’t know you were pregnant and thought you were ill and in a lot of pain. It would be much more frightening than if you knew, and had known for many months, … Continue reading →

A Nun with a Sense of Humour

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Someone who died local to me earlier this month and whose funeral I led was described as having a ‘wicked sense of humour.’ She was also someone who was in touch with her spiritual nature and sought to work on … Continue reading →

Healthy Grief: How Do You Feel About Bowing to Someone Who’s Died?

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Bowing to someone who has died can feel rather unnatural to those of us raised in the West. We’re not used to bowing in daily life. We might associate it with submission or subservience, which can be uncomfortable positions to … Continue reading →

Touching Video on the Art of Natural Death Care and How it Helps to Heal and Unite Loved Ones

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Making life worth living in the face of death.

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Lucy Kalanithi shares the story of her late husband, Paul, a young neurosurgeon who turned to writing after his terminal cancer diagnosis. She reflects on life and purpose in the face of this turning in point in her life. “Engaging in … Continue reading →

Grief: Does Time Really Heal?

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Grief can be felt as a wide variety of different bodily and emotional sensations. According to the American psychotherapist, Dave Richo, grief arises from a combination of 3 emotions – sadness, anger and fear. We feel sad that something has … Continue reading →

To Close or Not to Close…the Curtains.

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It’s potentially the lowest, saddest point in the funeral ceremony, the crux where we must truly face the inevitable and, having celebrated a life, say our final farewells. Some call this part of the ceremony ’the goodbye’. More traditionally it’s … Continue reading →

Say your truths and seek them in others…

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…especially when death is near. ‘Be like a new kind of first responder…the one to take the first courageous step toward the other.’

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Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

1 month ago

Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

Remembering those we love and have lost at Christmas...Christmas can be a really difficult time if someone close to you has died.Nothing can make up for not having someone special with you.Here are some of the ways you can remember someone at Christmas and include their memory in the celebrations 💜👉 ow.ly/9EeB50CziqZWho will you be remembering this year?

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Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

2 months ago

Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

The findings of this study come as no great surprise - those bereaved by Covid in the UK suffer heightened grief. I'm currently looking at sourcing funding to run 'Loss to Life' recovery groups in 2021 online and face to face.

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UK's 2.6m Covid bereaved suffer heightened grief, finds study

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Not being able to say goodbye and less support contribute to longer and unresolved pain

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Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

2 months ago

Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

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Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

5 months ago

Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

I invite you to read this in the spirit of being a deep listener for ALL those who've lost loved ones during these last few months. If we can be open to hearing their stories and sharing their photos and reflections with them, it helps to heal...

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Loved and Lost: grief in the time of coronavirus – a photo essay

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Photographer Simon Bray’s project Loved and Lost deals with the loss of loved ones in extraordinary times. He asked each participant to find a photograph of themselves with their lost loved one, and they returned to the location to replicate the image

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Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

6 months ago

Crossing the Threshold: Serving the Dying and Bereaved

A game changing time for this prominent family.

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A tale of two widows: the mother and daughter united by grief in the time of Covid-19

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Mother and daughter, united in grief, collaborate on a book

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