Today, April 18, 2023, Lyndey Milan showed viewers how to prepare more ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ on Channel 7’s The Morning Show, as we explained the mission of Good Grief! and the role good and healthy food plays in helping the grieving. In this occasional series Lyndey, Australian cooking and … Read more
Every time I taste – or even smell – a particular style of homemade vegetable and lamb soup, I’m transported back to Saturday lunch around the Rice family dining table of my childhood. It was my favourite meal of the week. All my siblings would gather. Dad would throw out … Read more
This article was updated on April 18, 2023. It discusses how widowed fathers bonded together. by Sandra Moon How do widowers cope with grief? The world as they knew it, with its well-mapped out future of anniversaries, grandchildren, shared parenthood and milestones, has gone. And when the pity, advice and … Read more
by Sandra Moon. This article was updated on April 13, 2023. It discusses end of life conversations. ‘I feel his organs are shutting down,’ my mother said on the phone. But how? Two days before Mum had rung me to ask for help getting Dad to the emergency ward at … Read more
by Sandra Moon This article was updated on April 11, 2023. It discusses Australian missing persons. Imagine one day your loved one doesn’t return home and as time goes by there is no conclusive evidence that they are dead. According to the Missing Persons Advocacy Network’s Missing Person’s Guide this … Read more
This article was updated on April 10, 2023. It discusses how Billy Connolly deals with the fear of death. Comedian Billy Connolly says he uses comedy as a way of coping with his fear of illness and death. The Glasgow born comic, who is 78, has Parkinson’s disease and prostate … Read more
This article was updated on April 6, 2023. It discusses belief diverse funeral services. By Sandra Moon In Australia, according to the 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data, the religion with the largest affiliation is Christian with twelve million two hundred thousand people. At just about half that number, … Read more
The Manly adolescent and young adult hospice (AYAH) is open for 15 to 24-year-olds who have been diagnosed with a life limiting illness or life-limiting condition. AYAH offer a range of services from respite care to end of life and the feedback so far has been phenomenal. Good Grief! chatted … Read more
This article was updated on April 3, 2023. It discusses DIY coffins. By Sandra Moon Are you with me in thinking the funeral industry is incredibly expensive? Does giving choice and power to the dying seem like a good idea? With all this in mind would you, could you build … Read more
This article was updated on March 30, 2023. It discusses ageing and motherhood. Today a nod to all the mothers who have gone. My mother died in 2011. These days I don’t miss her as much but I feel her presence very strongly. The connection is more revealed. I feel … Read more
The bittersweet taste of excitement and deep grief combined as my daughter and I sat in the front row of the House of Representatives’ special visitors gallery for a statement on the 10th anniversary of the National Apology for Forced Adoptions. We were excited to be in such a grand … Read more
This story was updated on March 28 2023. This is our first report on feedback from our consumer survey, which is ongoing. It was published in our March 15 newsletter. Our next report will be in the April newsletter. Please subscribe here, if you would like to follow this discussion … Read more
This article was updated on 24 March, 2023. It discusses the death of my dear brother Julian in a motorbike accident. A conversation with friends took me to a well the other day. We were walking in the Sydney sunshine along Bungaree’s Walkway at Middle Head, a natural pathway with … Read more
This article was updated on March 23, 2023. Jessica Rowe talks about ceremonies that reflect the true person. Loved journalist and TV personality Jessica Rowe told me: “We sometimes have the idea that everything about a funeral has to be reverent and really sombre. But it doesn’t. We have to ask … Read more
This article was updated on 21 March 2023. On the 60 year anniversary of Lifeline Australia we revisit patron John Brogden’s lessons from grief. A lot has changed for Lifeline Australia patron Mr John Brogden since we last caught up with him in 2020. Lifeline has now ‘gone global‘ with … Read more
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