Long after you first felt the sorrow of bereavement, and the funeral is now in the past or the first anniversaries survived, the deep pain of bereavement and loss still cuts deep and can be felt as keenly as when it was first encountered.
Maybe good friends have supported you but now no longer ask about your lost loved one? Maybe you have no-one to talk to freely about how much pain you are still in? Maybe you do not have a supportive place to talk about your melting pot of feelings: grief, love, anger, regret, resentment, aloneness and/or devastation?
Are you talking to yourself and saying ‘I should be able to get through this’? Are you caught out afresh by how bereavement can still catch you – jagged, raw, crushing – despite time passing, sometimes even years?
Losing your mother, father, son, daughter is utterly unique and you won’t have walked that road of pain before. Losing a partner or a spouse can be like losing part of yourself.
Sometime losing someone we did not find easy but who was significant to us creates confusion and conflict. For some people, an anticipated sense of relief or release just does not arrive, and this too can seriously affect our mental health and emotional well-being.
It isn’t only human loss that cuts deep. Loss of a pet can be just as turbulent – whether through accident, decline in health, theft or separation for example via divorce proceedings. Our pets can carry us through so much and bring a kind of unconditional and uncomplicated loving into our lives. Sometimes we feel foolish to grieve so deeply for ‘just a cat’ or our dog, but the grief for our pets is real and it’s sometimes so hard to find a place to take it.
I have extensive experience of being alongside people in bereavement pain.
I offer a safe place to be real. Sometime we want to say out loud things that we cannot say to others. And sometimes we know we are hurting at a deep level but don’t know what is going on for us.
I offer a non-judgemental, safe environment for you to explore powerful emotions and bereavement loss. As we work together and your realities are taken seriously, together we value, respect and care for your experiences. Here we will find your personal power to be both real about what has happened to you and discover the first shoots of new ways of living and being.