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Kristie West — Healing your grief so you can think about, talk about, and love them, without it hurting you anymore — Page 25

What if your Mum or Dad or someone you love died too young? Finding meaning in the lives of people we have lost.

by Kristie West April 21, 2011

This blog has been nagging me to write it for a few weeks now.  I find that every idea or topic I get in my head recently decides it wants to be a blog, puffs itself up bigger than the other ideas, runs round and round and round my head, and wakes me up in […]

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How to deal with the birthday of your Mum or Dad who’ve died. Happy birthday to Ian West, my Dad.

by Kristie West April 18, 2011

How to deal with the birthday of your Mum or Dad who’ve died.  Happy birthday to my Dad. It was my dad’s birthday over the weekend.  I did a ‘how to handle mother’s day when you’ve lost your mum’ post a couple of weeks back, so thought that instead of writing what would be a […]

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The BEST thing about social media – why I fell in love with it all over again yesterday

by Kristie West April 12, 2011

The BEST thing about social media – why I fell in love with it all over again yesterday To be honest I don’t need convincing on the merits of social media.  It’s incredibly social, keeps you up-to-date with your industry, allows you to learn from almost anyone you want about anything you want, lets people […]

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Your questions: 5 tips for someone who has just lost someone they love

by Kristie West April 11, 2011

Your questions: 5 tips for someone who has just lost someone they love Over the weekend I was asked what my top 5 bits of advice would be for someone who has just lost someone close to them so I thought I’d share them here too.  Most of them I’ve written about before separately, but […]

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The value of strength vs vulnerability when you’ve lost someone you love

by Kristie West April 7, 2011

Strength vs Vulnerability when you’ve lost  someone you love If you read a statement like “being ok with being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness” and cringe, gag, frown, huff, or some other show of contempt and disbelief, then this blog is for you. I know about the above reactions to comments like that […]

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Dealing with mother’s day when you’ve lost your Mum

by Kristie West April 5, 2011

Dealing with mother’s day when you’ve lost your Mum Yesterday I was asked why I hadn’t done a blog about mother’s day for people whose mum had passed away and found the day difficult.  The funny thing is it hadn’t even occurred to me.  Here in the UK, mother’s day was Sunday (April 3rd), whereas in NZ (where my […]

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How should I be feeling when I’ve lost my mum or dad or someone else I love?

by Kristie West March 31, 2011

How should I be feeling when I’ve lost my Mum or Dad or someone else I love?   Over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen quite a few of the google searches that led people to my blog being about how people feel after they’ve lost someone they love and how they think they […]

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Your Questions: THE perfect thing to say. And THE thing you must never say. What to say to someone who has lost their Mum or Dad (or anyone close to them).

by Kristie West March 28, 2011

  Now this is a question I get asked all the time.  It’s also something I’ve heard around me for years– it’s an incredibly common question when you’ve just heard that someone you know has lost their parent or someone else close to them. “What can I say?”, “I don’t know what to say”, “what […]

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Elizabeth Taylor – The passing of an icon

by Kristie West March 24, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor – The passing of an icon Yesterday, aged 79, Dame Elizabeth Taylor passed away.  I don’t watch or listen to news on the tv or radio much these days, but I knew it as facebook went absolutely mad with the story. Elizabeth Taylor was a strikingly beautiful woman, and a determined woman.  She […]

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Your Questions: Why didn’t my brother call me to tell me our dad had died?

by Kristie West March 21, 2011

Your Questions: Why didn’t my brother call me to tell me our dad had died? From today I’m adding something new into my blog.  I’ve gotten in the habit of writing every week on a Thursday about whatever has been in my mind that week to write, but from today I’ll also be posting every […]

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