Tag Archive for: grief

Missing Your Mum? A Mother’s Day Survival Guide

By: Joni Boyd

With millions of Australian men and women having lost their mother, and others missing their mum for different reasons, Mother’s Day is tough for many. Read more

How to Grieve Someone You’ve Never Met

By: Georgia Free

There was a form of collective heartbreak last week when news broke that chef and Masterchef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo had died, aged 46. Read more

Chaplain Raewyn Elsegood on How God Sustains Her After Losing Daughter

By: Georgia Free

When you speak to Raewyn Elsegood, you immediately feel like enough. Read more

Empty Nest Syndrome: Who It Impacts and How to Survive

By: Ben McEachen

Janet Evans had heard about “empty nest syndrome“, where parents feel loss, grief and despair when adult children leave home and she did not think she was the sort of person this would happen to. Read more

A Familiar Story for the Eternal Problem of Suffering

By: Sharon Cheung

Two missed calls. Ten unread messages. One winter night changed my experience of grief forever – one which may haunt me for the rest of my life on earth. Read more

Bring Your Grief to Your Workday! (Actually Please Don’t)

By: City Bible Forum

Imagine being free from our problems for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Imagine living in a world where we could disconnect ourselves from the nagging personal foibles that encroach on our work life and professional development. Read more

Grief and Growing up Explored in ‘The Adam Project’

By: City Bible Forum

Some film projects can be labelled as ‘getting the band back together.’ The Adam Project has the production team of Free Guy connecting with the world of 13 Going on 30 Read more

There’s a Word for What I’m Experiencing: Wintering. Maybe You’re Feeling it Too

By: Sheridan Voysey

I came across a helpful word recently: wintering. Author Katherine May uses it to describe those moments when life turns cold through crisis or loss and we find ourselves living at a different, slower pace to everyone else. 

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Michelle McLaughlin: Finding Hope After Losing a Child

By: Georgia Free

January 6, 2014. Michelle McLaughlin was excited to be on holiday with her husband, children and parents-in-law, on NSW’s Central Coast. Little did Michelle know, an afternoon trip to the beach was about to become the worst day of her life. Read more

‘The Starling’ Shows Us We Can Overcome Grief in Many Ways

By: Laura Bennett

Melissa McCarthy is really having a moment. Between 2018’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? (for which she was Oscar nominated), Nine Perfect Strangers and now The Starling, Melissa’s proving comedians crossing over into drama can be a powerful exchange. Read more