Extreme Self-Care
April 19, 2024 No Comments16 September 2019 Megan Devine Writing Your Grief prompt – What would it mean to offer kindness to yourself in your grief? Art courtesy of Rachael Goldfarb from of photo of my eyes If I excel at anything(And I deliberately use the word “excel”)It is that I practise Extreme Self-Care ExtremeSelfCare I am proud of […]
Read MoreGrief gets to speak her truth
April 19, 2024 No Comments15 September 2019 From Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief Course – an exercise inviting your grief to introduce himself/herself to you. “Hi baby”, she whispers seductively, irresistibly huskily. Sexy. Hips swaying, her smoky grey silk dress rippling in the gentle breeze. The biggest smile I’ve ever seen on her face. A grin that looks genuine, […]
Read MoreI don’t know what to do with my hands
April 19, 2024 No Comments14 September 2019 Writing Prompt from Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief course, simply beginning with “I don’t know what to do with my hands” I don’t know what to do with my hands Or my arms, which hang, droopily by my side I pluck up the courage to go into my office Through which you […]
Read MoreMy Forest has Changed
April 19, 2024 No Comments13 September 2019 Writing prompt from Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief Course: How do you live in a landscape so vastly changed? I was living in the forestA wild and scary forestI couldn’t see the wood for the treesI couldn’t see the light for the darkness I’d trip over rootsGet slashed by branchesLurch into tree […]
Read MoreWhat You May Not Know
April 19, 2024 No Comments12 September 2019 Featured image is the Full moon through Melancholy, Geneva If you could tell people something, tell them what is true, what is true about grief and love and loss, something they do not know, or can’t know, what would it be? If you could address them, what would be said? Part of […]
Read MoreThe Girl with No Name
April 19, 2024 No Comments11 September 2019 “I don’t have a name. I don’t know what to do. I am not the person I used to be…” (part of a prompt from Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief course) Featured image courtesy of Sarah Treanor (streanor.com) Actually, I do have a name, and it’s Emma. It’s the same name that […]
Read MoreIn The Past 24 Hours….
April 19, 2024 No Comments7 September 2019 A day in the life of a serial griever… In the past 24 hours… …I collected my youngest daughter’s “personal effects” from the clinic she’d been attending …I was told that her death by suicide most probably wasn’t pre-meditated, but an “on the spur of the moment” action …I learned that my […]
Read MoreProjection
April 19, 2024 1 Comment8 September 2019 I am often stunned by how much projection there is around, even though, as a mere mortal, I engage in it all the time myself. Of course there is projection! The world is complex and messy. It’s all we can do to put meaning on it by interpreting it through our eyes, […]
Read MoreLa Rentrée
April 19, 2024 No Comments2 September 2019 First posted on Soaring Spirits, Widow’s Voice Blog.https://www.soaringspirits.org/la_rentr_e In France, where I live, early September, with its “back to school and back to work” is known as “la rentrée”. This week is “la rentrée”. Schools go back. Three-year olds begin pre-school, known here as “Maternelle”. Six-year olds begin primary/”Primaire”. Eleven-year olds begin […]
Read MoreClutching onto Solo-Parenting
April 19, 2024 No Comments29 August 2019 First posted on Soaring Spirits, Widow’s Voicehttps://www.soaringspirits.org/clutching_on_to_solo_parenting These last few days have been a mad rush. I accompanied my “now youngest” daughter Megan, who is 18, to start university in the middle of the UK. We live in France, so it’s a bit of a schlep, and since we take a flight, […]
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