GRIEF PROBATE JOURNEY IS FOUR YEARS OLD!!!

JULY 2023

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WOW, writing this title seems almost unbelievable. We have been blogging and growing within our community for FOUR YEARS!!!

We truly see this as a blessing, especially with everything we went through in 2022.  Getting hacked in May was an experience we wouldn’t ever want to go through again, and one that we wouldn’t wish on anyone. Although sadly we are aware it is happening more and more often these days (worldwide) and it is getting harder to recognise when something might be a scam.

This has been a learning experience, a journey, and a rollercoaster of emotions and ups and downs. We have experienced highs and lows. One of the biggest lows being the hacking.

That changed so much for us. The levels of violation and how fast they worked, it was a traumatising experience. Especially knowing that someone was so heartless as to hack a grief page. We have a topic on our experience.

It was a hard few months, but through encouragement and support from our grief community (that we managed to remain connected to) family, and friends we got to a point where we were ready to start over. Accept our loss and start anew.

We also felt ready because we would hear people talking about things, they are unsure about, and these are things that we share on our blog. This made us see we still do have a purpose and we cannot let the hackers win. For this reason, we made our comeback in September last year (2022).

In honesty, it hasn’t been easy. The whole experience broke our confidence, created trust issues, and heightened our anxiety. We are still dealing with and struggling with this now, but we do not regret making our comeback.

I CAN’T QUITE BELIEVE IT. This topic was drafted on 15^th June 2023. TODAY 3^rd JULY 2023 as I am about to prepare to publish this topic. Our Official Grief Probate Journey Facebook account was attempted to be hacked into!!!! ONE YEAR AND TWO MONTHS AFTER OUR OFFICIAL INSTAGRAM account got hacked.

These people are relentless. For a minute I actually thought this could be true. But then I also thought, check and see if this is a scam. I’m so grateful I realised it had to be a scam because if I had fallen victim to this again, there is no explaining how I would be feeling at this very moment. I have reported the post and have a screenshot here for all to see, in the hope that you do not fall victim to this new strategy they are trying.

I honestly cannot be more thankful that I decided to google this message before clicking on the link in the message, it has thrown me a bit off balance, but am focusing on the fact they were not able to get through, and being grateful for that.

So now, back to this topic and the present moment……Since making our comeback (September 2022) we have been fortunate to have had:

Guest blog topics:

• The benefits of gardening while coping with Grief: Memorials of Distinction
• Emma Grace Brown: 3 simple steps to make pre-planning your own funeral easier
• Kings Court Trust The Probate Process Explained
• A comprehensive guide on how to talk to children about cancer: Mesothelioma Center
• Emma Grace Brown How To Manage Grief After Stillbirth
• Kings Court Trust Duties of a Will Executor
• AJ Coleman: Author of Keep Those Feet Moving

Collaboration topics:

• Judgement and Grief: Featuring Sue Ryder Campaign
• September Awareness Month 2022 Featuring ACLT and Creative practitioner and empowerment influencer ΔΠTİQŬĖ ΔM₱ÖMΔH:

We were part of the Global Grief Conference 2023

But one of the nicest things from making our comeback was not only reconnecting with the grief community that we had missed so much but also the friendly encouraging welcome back that we got. It has truly helped us to feel not so alone, and not so daunting experience starting all over again.

We had over 1,000 followers on our Grief Instagram account, and we started over again from 0. This was truly upsetting initially, but in coming back we feel a closer stronger bond within our community and that is a blessed feeling.

Also seeing that our blog had still been viewed worldwide for the 3-month period that we hadn’t published anything was heartwarming.

We are forever thankful to our family, friends, grief communities, and followers of our blog who continue to support us and what we are doing. Without you all we would never have made it to this milestone.

We give thanks, we feel blessed to have created our platforms, and for all the connections and friends we have made, learning and sharing with one another in a mutual understanding environment.

We look forward to the future hoping that we will see four more years and more of sharing stories and moving through our grief journey.

As always, we hope our Dad would be proud of what we are doing. it is in his honour.

Love and Blessings

Grief Probate Journey