“In Our Own Words…” Young People’s Experiences of Loss

Irish schoolgirl’s garden at Bloom helps to guide people through bereavement

When you experience loss, help can come from the unlikeliest of places. At the 2018 Bloom festival in Dublin, 12-year-old Aliçia Kavanagh showcased the garden she created to help guide people through bereavement.

https://www.independent.ie/life/irish-schoolgirl-12-creates-garden-at-bloom-to-help-guide-people-through-bereavement-36937978.html

Hope Again

Hope Again is Cruse Bereavement Care’s site for young people. Cruse is a national charity that provides support, advice and information to children, young people and adults when someone close to them dies. They also work to enhance society’s care of bereaved people.

http://hopeagain.org.uk/

The Loss of a Family Pet

Goodbye best friend: how to deal with the loss of a family pet. “Cry and understand that there is no quick way to get over this. What you are feeling is real and it’s due to all the love and compassion you carry.”

http://www.her.ie/life/goodbye-best-friend-deal-loss-family-pet-404927

Professional footballer John Walters talks with an interviewer whose mother also died when he was young.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060j1tg

Martin Lewis talks on BBC Radio about the death of his mother when he was 12.

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/10156337262441108/