07/12/2021
To mark grief awareness week, I thought I would share something close to my own heart. Eight years ago my life changed forever when my mother passed away too young and beautiful. Ten months later, I lost my Dad. With so much at once, I felt like I had lost myself, and there was no other option but for me to confront and process my grief. I could either sink or swim and I chose to swim. This journey has been very tough and painful. However, with peace in my heart, I can finally say this year it is my work that has helped me come to a beautiful stage of acceptance. There is finally meaning in what I went through. Experiential wisdom is the best way to help others. I have had such beautiful moments with children who I am helping breakthrough and feel less alone in their own struggles. It is these moments that bring pure joy to my heart. I believe grief affects children in many forms: death, divorce, the trauma of the pandemic and self-acceptance of differences. To enable children to have these tools in their early years will help them deal with the ever increasing complexities of life.
