I've been listening to a podcast recently by Simon Thomas. It's called Life Interrupted, and he interviews people who have had their...

As the country starts to slowly re-emerge from its cocoon of covid avoidance, I am having a swirling mixture of emotion. On one hand the...

Definition: Normalcy bias, is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimise threat warnings. People fail to comprehend...

Friends have been asking how I'm feeling on the run up to Mothers Day. "I'm fine" tends to be the stock response. Which loosely...

When you lose a loved one time becomes something you think about a lot, the time you had and the time you've lost. You think about happy...

The complete drudgery of Lockdown#3 has led to very little to write about. The return of homeschooling and home-workouts has lacked the...

Recently Keira Knightley has been in the press discussing her aversion to sex scenes specifically with male directors. One of the things...

As we enter the second year I feel, certainly at this moment, that I am on more of a philosophical pathway. The first year was all...

The anniversary of Lauren's funeral did not have the same impact on me as the anniversary of her death. When I look back on her funeral,...

On the build up to anniversaries, be it birthdays, mothers days, end of term, or any other date that elicits memories, I have usually...

The tree came down today. It always feels quite cathartic, clearing away the clutter, piling up the presents and hoovering away the pine...

Last week was undeniably difficult. I can't yet calm my mind enough to write about it in detail, I'm sure I will, just not yet. What I...

No words, just pictures

I keep seeing reminders of my social media posts from this time last year. They are nothing of consequence, silly clips, political...

So I’ve not been doing much, no one has at the minute, so that got me to thinking about what I've learnt in the past nearly 12 months. ...

I woke up under a black cloud today. It's not all to do with Lauren, it is Monday in November, in another national lockdown, but she's...

Remembrance Day. There are mornings where Lauren is no longer the first thing I think of when I wake up, when her smile does not float...

Last night I discovered something that I probably should have probably been aware of some months ago. I realised that I was assigning...

We are all so caught up in our own self importance as human beings, in our rush to prove ourselves in some arbitrary manner, that we...

Speaking to other bereaved parents reminds me, yet again, how appallingly bad we are at dealing with grief, both the bereaved and their...