A Personal Message to Bereaved Parents

As a Life and Emotional Wellbeing Coach there is something I would like to share with you, I am also a bereaved Mother.  When my son Christopher died on 8th October 2006  I couldn't imagine how I would ever feel normal again, much less happy again.  Through the last  seven and a half years, I realised that when you lose a child, you inevitably lose a big part of yourself.  The loss of a child can be an extremely isolating experience and for parents who have suffered the greatest loss, I want you to know that you are not alone.  I know that your healing journey, as was mine, is a long and arduous one.  I now realise that the grieving process is also an important part of the healing process.  As I started to put the pieces of my life back together, it became a process of integrating the love I carry for my son in my heart with the physical loss I have endured in order to create a new life purpose.  I discovered a bereaved heart does continue to beat and even feel great love and joy again.  I have experienced it in my own life and I have others who have too.  As a Life Coach I can help guide and support bereaved parents to find a new purpose in life again after such a huge loss.  If you need an understanding ear I can offer you a safe place to reflect on what this loss means to you and what might help to ease your way.