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Pudding Day: A recipe for holiday grief
Pudding Day encapsulates for me as a grief worker the theory of continuing bonds: the idea that we never really stop having a relationship with those who have died, it merely changes.

Joh Fairley
Dec 104 min read


Paper boats and silver ribbons
The power of creative ritual in funeral rites.

Joh Fairley
Aug 64 min read


The unexpected gift of grief
Last winter, I had the quiet privilege of being with some friends in the early days of grief.

Kellie Beatty
Jul 183 min read


What Desiree the fish taught me about grief and loss.
When I was twelve a virus struck my fish and they all died suddenly except Desiree who looked extremely unwell gasping for air at the surfac

Joh Fairley
Jun 12, 20244 min read


Faux pas I’ve made as a death doula and will never do again. (I hope)
One of the marvellous things in my aging, is I can talk about the ‘many’ booboos I have made.

Annie Whitlocke
Mar 4, 20243 min read


Portuguese Migrants and Village Death Practices
It was only after all my grandparents & my father had died that I started asking my mum questions: “When did you first learn about death?"

Alex Antunes
Jan 14, 20243 min read


OMG my dog is dead!
How I coped when my dog died.

Annie Whitlocke
Dec 18, 20232 min read
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