Letter to Julia
October 20, 2025 No Comments24 September 2019 Megan Devine prompt from Writing Your Grief: “Imagine writing a letter to the one you’ve lost: what would you show them in this new “home” town? Your world is entirely new, now. It’s not the same place it was before death entered your life and your home”. I beg to differ, Ms Devine. […]
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
October 20, 2025 No Comments23 September 2019 Megan Devine prompt inviting us to reflect on the number 13 (it being day 13 of the writing programme). I decided to be clever and think of 13 things I had learned. Then categorised them according to the little ditty. Thirteen things I have noticed since being widowed – the good, the […]
Read MoreBreathe in the Wreckage
October 20, 2025 1 Comment22 September 2019 Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief Prompt inviting us to be with the pain, the despair, the wreckage… asking what would it take for us to feel the pain and not run away from it What would it take for me to breathe in the wreckage? I am breathing in the wreckageI don’t […]
Read MoreHealing Balm
October 20, 2025 No Comments21 September 2019 Another Megan Devine prompt with a piece of May Sarton’s writing, inviting us to write from whatever line caught our attention. I chose this line: “I suffer from these brief weekends, the tearing up of the roots of love, and from my own inability to behave better under the stress”. I have […]
Read MoreWeariness
October 20, 2025 No Comments10th September 2019 Megan Devine Writing Your Grief Prompt: “Weariness” by Hannah Arendt. Where do you find yourself in this piece? Can you write from here, whether in her style or her tone? For today’s writing, copy Arendt’s opening lines: evening falling – a soft lamenting…and go from there. It’s the title of the poem, […]
Read MoreLanguage and Colour Could Never Begin to Describe You
October 20, 2025 No Comments19 September 2019 Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief prompt inviting us to write with colour as a starting point. I have been dreading this prompt. I knew that it was coming, that it was relatively early in the 30 days of Writing Your Grief. And even though I didn’t remember the detail of the prompt, […]
Read MoreMy Grief Mentor
October 20, 2025 No CommentsMegan Devine Writing Your Grief Prompt: We all need a mentor. Especially inside this wholly disorienting grief, inside a culture that cannot and does not understand. We each need a guiding star, an example to live into. 18th September 2019 (my mum’s 80th birthday) This is my third crack at this writing prompt. I have […]
Read MoreFound Poetry in The Psychologist
October 20, 2025 No Comments17 September 2019 The invitation with this prompt from Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief course was to pick a page in a newspaper/magazine, and just highlight random words and from those create a poem. It’s a weird and wonderful exercise. Struggled Many yearsConscious shift toEnlist help Active criticMadness as insightPhilosophical coincidenceCulprit suspicious Signs of sexual […]
Read MoreExtreme Self-Care
October 20, 2025 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
October 20, 2025 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, […]
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