World Sepsis Day September 13th 2021

Today (September 13th) is World Sepsis Day. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that we believe needs all the awareness it can get…. Please see World Sepsis Day September 13th 2021 which covers: Introduction YouTube Videos Illustrative Examples: World Sepsis Day September 13th 2021 World Sepsis Day September 13th 2021 Our Final Thoughts/Our YouTube Video © […]

Alzheimer’s Awareness Month 2021

This month is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. This time last year we did a topic called September Awareness Month which covered many different awareness days as there are various happening throughout the month. Please see Alzheimer’s Awareness Month which covers: Introduction YouTube Videos Illustrative Examples Alzheimer’s Awareness Month Our Final Thoughts/Our YouTube Video © Copyright 2019 […]

Suicide Prevention Month: Suicide Loss and Grief

This topic has come about based on comments from a previous topic: Traumatic Loss and the comments shared between the community we have built through our blog, about the comments shared were between the community that has been developing through our blog. They were discussing how they related to the topic and the unfortunate loss […]

Blood Cancer Awareness Month – in collaboration with ACLT: BONDED BY BLOOD: A Mothers story (In memory of Richard Okorogheye)

My sister and I became aware it is Blood Cancer Awareness Month. There are so many rare forms of blood cancer, this made us want to do a topic. We then thought of going one step further, and this is when we had the idea to contact ACLT (African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust). We feel so […]

National Grief Awareness Day 2021

Today is National Grief Awareness Day. We didn’t question doing a topic on this. Worldwide so many of us are grieving. The way we grieve, mourn and honour loved ones has changed drastically due to the pandemic…. Please see National Grief Awareness Day 2021 which covers: Introduction Professor Green: YouTube Video and article: When grief […]

My experience of: Pilonidal Cyst/Abscess Surgery: Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria/Sepsis (early stages)

This was not a planned topic. This is a topic about a journey that I have been on for three months now (since May 2021). As time went on in my journey, with the more things that started going wrong for me I decided that just like our grief journey, needed to be shared. It […]

Triggers Anxiety and Grief

My sister and I are aware the moment our Dad was hospitalised in September 2016 to this very day our anxiety has gone through the roof. We are also aware that triggers can transport us back to moments of the trauma of our Dad’s situation, making us feel like we are literally back in that […]

Responsibility and Grief

From the moment our Dad was hospitalised in September 2016. Life for our family has never been the same since. We had absolutely no idea what we were about to face. To say we were far from prepared is a huge understatement. In almost every situation we have been in and decisions we’ve had to […]

Grief is an individual journey, Grief is an expression and extension of love

This is another topic that has come about by chance, based on thoughts and feelings through situations and circumstances we find ourselves in. Quite often in our topics, we relate to the fact of grief being an individual experience, but we’ve never gone beyond that statement, we’ve not explored further within that statement and what […]

Drowning and Grief

This topic has come about from the way my sister and I have been feeling of late. We feel as though we are drowning amongst our responsibilities, as though we are struggling to keep our head above water and having to push ourselves to the maximum when doing the simplest of daily tasks…. Please see […]