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My Deer, Phoenix Park.

All Posts, Grief20 August 2019

Phoenix Park, Ireland, pic courtesy National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Ireland.

That’s a full stop – a red stop sign with angled corners and a white line around it.  Resting here, my knees have buckled, in front of that sign you planted in my path. I have walked this space so confidently, happy to share what I know, to muck in. Sleeves rolled up, information exchanged, […]

Filed Under: All Posts, Grief Tagged With: death, Faith, Family, Funerals, Grief, Legacy, Letting go, loss, Mourning, Traditions, Values, Working your way through grief

Play School helps with stories about beginnings and endings.

All Posts, Grief, Resources19 August 2019

Play School: Beginnings and Endings - courtesy Play School ABC

This morning Play School did something very special. It had an episode about new life and end of life. Emma, one of the presenters explained to an earlier television news audience that the team sought the guidance of experts on managing grief in children. Children deal with death in a very concrete way. Euphemisms confuse […]

Filed Under: All Posts, Grief, Resources Tagged With: Caring more for children, Children's grief, death, Empowerment, Family, family-and-children, Grief, Improving our care for others, loss

When the grief of a child is denied.

All Posts, Grief, Resources26 May 2019

Why did Dad leave without saying goodbye?

Sadly, until recently children were often excluded from funerals, something we recognise today as harmful. Christine was only seven when her father died and she will never forget it.  But one emotion that loomed large for a long time after was anger – not because Fred had died but because his death was kept a […]

Filed Under: All Posts, Grief, Resources Tagged With: Caring more for children, Children's grief, death, Empowerment, Family, family-and-children, Grief, Improving funerals, Improving our care for others, loss

A Mexican Cross to remember Chris

All Posts, Grief05 April 2019

A Mexican Cross to remember Chris by, made better for its imperfections, as he is buried today.

Today a Mexican Cross to remember Chris by, because later this morning, Sydney time, his family who are dear to my heart will bury him. They are a large Catholic family just like the one I grew up in and now he, one of the six siblings, is gone. If anything like our family – […]

Filed Under: All Posts, Grief Tagged With: death, Faith, Family, Funerals, Grief, Legacy, Letting go, loss, Mourning, Traditions, Values, Working your way through grief

Jane and Richard talk about the last few months of life

All Posts08 March 2019

“Have you been around during the last months of someone’s life, either a friend or a relative?”

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: death, Empowerment, Family, family-and-children, Grief, loss, Moving on, The joy of living, Traditions, Values

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Good Grief! is a site by Margaret Rice, aimed at facilitating conversation and providing resources for grief management & palliative care.

It’s also a place for you to indulge in a lighter side of grief, to seek relief, comfort and wisdom from those who’ve experienced it.

Have you got something to say about your experience of loss or sadness? A story to share? Would you like to find more about how to cope? Good Grief! is a page for everyone. You can contact Margaret here.

After all, we all know what grief is, even though we aren’t very good at talking about it.

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