I spent last weekend immersed in conversations about mortality, palliative care, psychedelics, grief, meaning and what it means to accompany human beings through some of the most vulnerable moments of…
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Over the past few days, I have been at a retreat - my first one focused on fasting and meditation. There has been lots of downtime, and, no surprise to…
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For the past fifteen months, Joan Scarrott and I have been hosting taster sessions for our Mortal Leader programme. It’s a slow build, and even though the topic is not…
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I had a “reconnect” meeting yesterday with a dear fellow coach, Nathalie Ducrot, I don’t see nearly enough of. There was a brief moment of re-remembering, Do we usually speak…
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Exactly two hundred years before my husband Mike died in 2017, John Keats was writing about a capacity I would start to need in buckets. He called it negative capability.…
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I’m creating something new — tender and transformative, nourishing and regenerative! Grief-Wise Retreats are intimate, carefully held spaces for those navigating the rough terrain of grief — whether personal or…
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I recently had the pleasure of joining Liz Hall for a conversation as part of Climate Coaching Action Day (12th March 2025), exploring grief, coaching, and how we navigate these…
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During 2024, I spent much of my time nourishing four deeply integrated projects—my website, my book, Mortal Leader, and grief services for organisations. All of them are still unfinished, some…
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At this time of year, I often come across beautifully crafted intention-setting exercises. They invite us to pause, reflect, and look forward. In the past, I’ve tended to focus on…
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It is the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, where I live – the time of year when darkness stretches into its fullest potential, and daylight retreats to its most…
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Personal Blog - Widowing Empty Nests
How do you keep living when life shatters—again and again—in ways you never imagined? Breath by breath, moment by moment, you carry what remains. Widowing Empty Nests is a space where love, loss, grief, and resilience intertwine, offering honest reflections on the ongoing journey of holding the unbearable while embracing what endures.
