Welcome ……

 

Take a look around and you’ll see who I am, why I do what I do, and, most importantly, how I can help you to heal from your grief after losing your mum or dad.  Scroll down and you’ll find my blog.

You can heal completely.  It isn’t about ‘time’. There are specific steps to take to move you beyond pain and grief to a place where you can talk about the person you have lost, remember                                                          them, love them, without it hurting you any                                                              more.

                                                         Coming here was the very first step.                                                                        Welcome to your new journey.

Kristie
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Celebrating Easter when you’ve lost your mum or dad – Finding gratitude in amongst the grief

by Kristie West April 9, 2012
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    Celebrating Easter when you’ve lost your mum or dad – Finding gratitude in amongst the grief     Easter is another one of these celebratory days that may or may not have religious significance for you but, with or without that, have come to mean time with the ones you love, particularly family. [...]

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“Daddy, what if you die?” Talking to kids about death.

by Kristie West March 26, 2012
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“Daddy, what if you die?”  Talking to kids about death. What would your answer to that question be? A friend of mine recently shared a story with me that really inspired me and I wanted to share it with you. He recently lost his father-in-law.  For his little boy, who had just lost his grandfather, [...]

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5 tips for getting through Mother’s Day when you’ve lost your Mum.

by Kristie West March 16, 2012
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 5 tips for getting through Mother’s Day when you’ve lost your Mum Mother’s day, like other holidays (particularly the first ones) can be very tough when you have lost your mum.  But it doesn’t have to be a day you struggle through.  This Mother’s day, make it a day that you celebrate your mum… regardless of whether she [...]

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Lessons about self-love…and learning them the hard way…and what the heck that has to do with grief

by Kristie West March 11, 2012
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 Lessons about self-love…and learning them the hard way…and what the heck that has to do with grief          Ooo not sure I’ve noticed that sign to the left before……   How long has that been there?!   If you’ve followed my blog for a while you may have noticed a stark drop [...]

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Valentine’s day – how can you support the parent who’s left?

by Kristie West February 14, 2012
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Valentine’s day – how can you support  the parent who’s left? There are many tough aspects of losing your mum or dad.  One of these can be how to help and support the parent who is left. There can be obligation here, a feeling that you need to somehow fill the shoes of the parent [...]

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Rockin out at ‘Deathfest’ 2012

by Kristie West February 2, 2012
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Having told a couple of people last week – a couple of people who didn’t know me – that I was going to attend a death festival, I was then faced with questions about what type of music was going on at this ‘festival’. Nope this is not the type of festival I would have [...]

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Book recommendation: ‘Thriving Loss’ by Tabitha Jayne

by Kristie West January 31, 2012
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Book recommendation: ‘Thriving Loss’ by Tabitha Jayne If you’ve followed me for a while you may have noticed I haven’t recommended other people’s work or books etc at all in the 13 months that I have been blogging.  It isn’t for lack of wanting to!  It’s from there being a huge lack of modern, ground-breaking [...]

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How to move beyond grief when you’ve lost your mum or dad…Why it’s NOT about emotion

by Kristie West January 20, 2012
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How to move beyond grief when you’ve lost your mum or dad…Why it’s NOT about emotion Huh?! I know what you’re thinking, “How on earth can you say that, Kristie?!  Do you have any idea how I am feeling? It’s all about emotion!”  Well if you’ve read me before you know I don’t throw out [...]

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Why grief counselling…. and even most grief coaching…doesn’t work.

by Kristie West January 16, 2012
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Why grief counselling…. and even most grief coaching…doesn’t work. That might sound like a provocative statement…..but I can only share what my consistent experience and observation has been. Before I developed the process I now take people through, I too sought counselling (from psychologists) and coaching (from life coaches) to help me with the grief [...]

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Can a funeral be beautiful? Film: Remembering Josh Edmonds

by Kristie West January 14, 2012

Can a funeral be beautiful? – Film: Remembering Josh Edmonds REMEMBERING JOSH from JIMMY Edmonds on Vimeo. I’ll admit – I get sent a lot of stuff that I am told I ‘must’ read or watch….and I don’t read or watch all of it. But this…this documentary….this stunning, stunning documentary, is both very raw and [...]

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