I was so pleased that on Saturday I had chance to get to a pop up grief shop in town. I bought some postcards that I will be able to send when needed, and was asked why I had gone in (not in an unhelpful way, the point of the people there was to assist conversations about grief). I explained I was keen to support them (they're touring with this concept) as I feel we don't support grieving well in our culture. I don't feel we encourage or even allow people to grieve deep enough or long enough.
https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2018/09/shop-to-help-people-talk-about-grief-opens-in-preston/
Then today I saw a great short video on how we're often so keen to have people feel better we just don't stay with people in their pain when what is really needed is simply acknowledgement of it. I often struggle with this even tho I do know this is the thing to do. Even today I hurried my friend on to a more positive place rather than gave enough space for them to stay with the difficulty.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zLCCRT-nE
So we're all still learning and practising. I'm sharing this link here cos it looks great and next time I need to share it I can find it right here.
https://www.refugeingrief.com/
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