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Emma Pearson

Wrapping Loss in Love

Posted on: July 14, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo by Karim MANJRA on Unsplash I spend a lot of my time reading about death, dying, and grieving, participating in webinars and holding space sessions with grief experts, people who’ve developed wise perspective on what it is to love, to lose, and to continue living. Apart from two moments since Mike’s death, I have […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Therapy, Multiple Losses

Post Mortem – a year on

Posted on: July 7, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

This past week we have been honouring and commemorating Julia. (And Mike. And Ed. And Don. Of course). Like we do every day. Of course. But particularly Julia this week. The first “deathiversary”. The first anniversary post mortem. I don’t really know why the one-year anniversary feels like such a rite of passage. It’s not […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed Anniversaries, Multiple Losses

Right Down to the Weather

Posted on: June 30, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main Photo by Marc Wieland on Unsplash So there we have it. Here we are again. Time has rolled around. As it is wont to do. Dates might not have, but the sense, the weight of that Sunday night 52 weeks ago, most definitely has. A hot day in our part of the world with […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones

Incongruities of a Summer’s Day

Posted on: June 23, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Just like I always feel a twinge of glee on 21st December (we have reached the shortest and darkest 24-hour period in the Northern Hemisphere – yippee!), I also feel a twinge of sadness on 21st June when we have reached the longest, lightest day. There’s a clear message there about not living in the […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Multiple Losses

Rewriting Friendship Contracts

Posted on: June 16, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash I had one of those rollicking walloping moments of insight a few days ago after what had been months of sporadic back and forth Whatsapping with a lovely friend, (let’s call her Catherine), who I met decades ago at university. We were really close in those years and stayed […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Multiple Losses

Parallels

Posted on: June 9, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo by Jonathan Pendleton on Unsplash Like just about everyone with a heart on the planet, I have been saddened, distraught and moved to tears many times these past couple of weeks as the upwelling of grief and anger in the US (and the UK, and France, to name just a couple of other places), over race, bias, […]

Categories: Multiple Losses, Uncategorized

Don’t Rush Me – It’s not just me – it’s you too

Posted on: June 2, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo by Andrew Buchanan on Unsplash “One of the big things I talk about in the grief world is how other people want to rush grief. They want the old you back, they want things to go back to “normal,” they’ve grown impatient with the way grief lives in you. All that cheerleading and cheering up has, at […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Multiple Losses, Miscellaneous

Empty

Posted on: May 26, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo by our own amazing Sarah Treanor (streanor.com) Empty. I am empty. I feel empty. Which one is it? Just empty. Running on Empty? No. Not even. A year ago I did a semi-marathon and it was at the end of one of the hardest weeks in my life (and I have had a shit […]

Categories: Multiple Losses

New Love in the Time of COVID-19

Posted on: May 19, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

How does a new relationship, even one that truly feels right, profound, rich, loving… how does it survive, how can it survive, in the time of COVID-19?  How can Zoom sessions, WhatsApp calls and texts, photos, and even the occasional letter, be a substitute for lovingness, comfort and support? Any relationship needs nurturing, whether it […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed and New Love, Multiple Losses

Multiple Versions of Mother’s Day

Posted on: May 12, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Today, as I write, Sunday 10th May 2020, it is Mother’s Day in North America. And, closer to home, in Switzerland too. The day during which, in former times, people congratulate mothers on being mothers. People bring their mums flowers, make them a meal, take them out for a meal. Or just call them and […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Holidays, Multiple Losses

Threadbare

Posted on: May 5, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Nick Fewings on Unsplash I am in a hard place. A fragile space. Hard and fragile. That sounds like “brittle”. That works too. The six weeks of “hard and fast and furious dates” between 27th March and 2nd May are finally over, culminating in Ben’s 21st birthday yesterday. I so wish he’d had his dad […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and New Love

Bittersweet

Posted on: April 28, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo by Bannon Morrissy on Unsplash 24 April 2020 More stories of dates. And Dates. Sometimes I count a year as 52 weeks. Sometimes I count a year as 365 days. Or 366 days as the case may be. Sometimes I remember the day something happened. Sometimes the date is more important. And sometimes the Date. It’s […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Multiple Losses

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