All Grief articles
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Opinion
What Annabel Croft’s performance on Strictly Come Dancing taught me about sorrow and joy
Writer, Lucy Jeremiah comments on how Annabel Croft’s Strictly dance, dedicated to her husband who died in May, was a beautiful picture of how sorrow and joy can go hand in hand.
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Walking with Jesus through complex grief
Sarah Portal has faced significant losses since an early age, including friends and family members.
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Opinion
I gave my daughter a kidney, then she died, but this is what God showed me
Author of Hand Stretched Across the Void, June Whitehouse, tells of God’s goodness in the face of huge family hardship.
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Opinion
When my son died I had to choose between clinging to Christ or abandoning him - I don't regret my decision
When Sarah Berger was faced with the most horrific bereavement she had to choose whether she would walk away from her faith or pull closer than ever into God. Here she explains her story.
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Opinion
I’m a grief support volunteer and I believe we need to speak more freely about death and how, in Christ, it is a triumph and not a defeat
Grief support volunteer and former palliative care professional Kemi Koleoso says that she thinks of 'death as an end with a bend'. Here she explains why Christians should find hope and encouragement in death and shouldn't shy away from speaking about it.
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Opinion
The collective grief of the Queen’s death can bring up the pain of past losses - but lament is a powerful tool in this time
We are all still processing the death of the Queen, but for some it brings up the hurt of previous losses. Here Kintsugi Hope’s Rachael Newham explains that lament is a powerful tool for addressing this pain with God.
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Opinion
I’m a relationship therapist and here are four tips on dating while grieving the loss of your partner
Losing your partner is the most difficult experience and continuing with every day life can be daunting. Allowing someone new into your life can feel overwhelming too and possibly impossible to consider, here relationship therapist Charisse Cooke explains what to consider.
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Spreading hope in the House of Lords
Baroness Caroline Cox, 84 has been a nurse, social scientist, and now a humanitarian. She shares some reflections about of her life of service with Jemimah Wright
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Working through suffering without losing faith in God
Having lost precious children to miscarriage and a daughter, Libby, at birth, Katherine Gantlett shares how she stopped trying to escape the winter seasons of her life, and learned to walk with him authentically and honestly
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Opinion
‘The pain of miscarriage was probably worse than full-term labour pains’
To mark Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15 October) Tammy Tunnah shares about her traumatic miscarriage and how mentally agonising her next pregnancy was, and we look at the place of art therapy in processing baby loss
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Opinion
The dream that turned a widow’s grief into a heavenly story of hope
As a young widow with children, Abi Shotade walked a painful journey of grief. She hopes the book she has written will help other families facing loss