Tuula Rasen BACP BPC FPC 

"Alexandra Wyman [podcast host of Forward to Joy ] speaks with Rachel Gibbons, a consultant psychiatrist and researcher focused on suicide and bereavement. Rachel shares her unexpected journey into this field, driven by her experiences as a clinician facing the tragic loss of patients to suicide. They discuss the profound impact of suicide on both clinicians and families, the stigma surrounding it, and the importance of emotional resilience and support systems. Rachel emphasi

Sophie Gilbert interviewed Richard E Grant, who documented his grief following the loss of his wife: "Why should grief be hidden, if sharing it feels cathartic? Why should people grieving spouses, parents, children do so quietly? Why is our innate response to people who are experiencing profound loss to duck and cover? “I think that it’s [people’s] fear that they’re either going to be intruding or that you’re going to fall apart like a jelly on the pavement,” Grant said. He s

"People will often avoid mentioning our loved one's name for fear it will remind us and make us sad. As if we could ever forget! As if we had stopped for a moment, being sad! Our sorrow is directly connected to our love, and we refuse to be shamed into relinquishing it. In fact, when someone is brave enough to speak of our loved one, it can be such a relief. It means she existed; she mattered. For a moment, there is another being to help lift and carry the great weight of her