Grief Guide

09/10/2026

This one feels strange to post, so please bear with me...

I've made the finals for two categories in the Mount Ommaney Small Business Awards:
🪷 Best Customer Service
🪷 Grief Guide for Micro Small Business.

Voting is open now.

Asking for votes isn't really my comfort zone, but this isn't about my ego, it's about visibility, for grief support, for Death Cafés, for the idea that talking about death and dying shouldn't be strange or hidden.

If you've got two minutes and feel moved to vote, please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/smallbizawards

No pressure, no expectation, but I wanted you to know it's happening, and what it represents if it goes somewhere.

Thank you to everyone who's been part of Grief Guide so far, whether that's by being here in this little corner of the internet, coming to sessions, attending a Death Cafe.

🪷 I'm so grateful you're here 🪷

02/10/2026

What does time mean when you're grieving?

🪷 Time heals all sounds?
🪷 Just wait a few months and it'll feel better?
🪷 In X amount of time it'll be resolved?

Not so much.

In this video I explore the complex way time and grief come together in the face of loss.

23/09/2026

This week I find myself without a voice.
Not metaphorically, not poetically.... Literally voiceless.

The symptom of having small children, of my youngest being very unwell, and quite enjoying a cough right into my face. I also wonder if it's a symptom of the intensity of this work.

You know my work is deep, it's meaningful, and it can also be very heavy. There's one case I'm holding very heavily at the moment. I'm advocating, I'm fighting systems on their behalf, I'm fighting for compassion in the face of incredible adversity.

🪷 And then I wake this week without a voice. 🪷

If you do what I do, you don't miss an opportunity to reflect on this unique set of circumstances.

I'm a counsellor with no voice; literally the one tool I can't do my job without, and I've lost it. A tool that makes my other job, parenting, difficult too.

It's made me silent. It's made me still. Well, as still as a Type-A personality can be (yes, I've purchased quite a few items for a project I didn't need to undertake).

So, what do I do now?
I don't like not being well. I don't like not knowing how long this will last. I don't like feeling like I'm letting people down, cancelling appointments, relying on others, stepping back. But I'm going to lean into what everyone around me is asking of me:

🪷 Rest.
🪷 Be quiet.
🪷 Be still.
🪷 We've got you.

I hope to talk with you soon, with great gratitude for this most basic and important of tools; my voice.

17/09/2026

This is a peek behind the curtain...

This is my view when we meet for a telehealth session.

🪷 In my comfy chair, from the clinic or my home office.
🪷 A cuppa (coffee, always, never tea.)
🪷 A water bottle next to me, (tap water with a handful of ice cubes, one thrown the dog's way.)
🪷 Notepad and pen (a Ladybird Care Foundation - Support for Grieving Parents pen, of course.)

Legs crossed or up on the table. I'm quite a fan of a seated pretzel position.

Ready to be fully present to whatever comes.

🪷 Welcome to Grief Guide. I'm so glad you're here. 🪷

14/09/2026

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10/09/2026

I'm thrilled to have been invited back to this year's Death Expo in Toowoomba next month.

I'll be there on behalf of Grief Guide and Ladybird Care Foundation - Support for Grieving Parents holding space (both literally and figuratively) to talk openly about death, dying, and grief.

I will also host a Death Café to gather and share a cuppa and connect further over the topic.

What I really love about this day, and expos such as this one, is that it's an offering to the community to gather, to lean into our discomfort about this topic, and plan both practically and emotionally for one of life's most certain experiences.

It's also a place to honour those that have died, and the grief we carry.

🪷 I'm looking forward to it, and I hope to see you there. Link in my bio to register 🪷

03/09/2026

This week I helped someone close to me put together a funeral slideshow.

Going through the photos, we noticed how many people were missing from the story , not because they weren't important or not there, but because of things like:

🪷 Not liking having their photo taken
🪷 Feeling awkward in front of a camera
🪷 Not feeling comfortable in their own body

The result is the same either way; no photos of that precious connection. Nothing to come back to when we want to spark a memory, or lean into the love and the grief.

I wonder if it helps to think about photos differently.

Yes, photos are for now, but they're also for long after we're gone, for the people who knew how we looked, how we felt, how awkward we could be, and loved us anyway.

Sometimes photos are all that's left. And my goodness, they're meaningful.

🪷 Take good care. I'm here if you need. 🪷

01/09/2026

When I first started Grief Guide, colleagues asked if I was limiting myself by only working with grief. My answer hasn't changed; grief comes from many life experiences, not only death.

You don't feel a challenge without some grief riding sh***un. Even the things we had wanted.

🪷 Loss of a job.
🪷 A relationship.
🪷 A sense of self.
🪷 Our bodies doing what we ask of them.
🪷 Our parents ageing.
🪷 A changing season.
🪷 And yes, the death of a loved (or not so loved) one.

I'll keep sharing what I'm working with, to raise awareness of the struggles we and those around us carry, often without acknowledgement. These are some of my courageous clients' experiences.

Some of it may resonate.

🪷 Welcome to Grief Guide.
Your loss, of any type, is welcome here. 🪷

29/08/2026

You can't look through this window without seeing the curtains.

That's grief, sometimes; a screen over everything. You're still looking at the world, but nothing comes through unfiltered anymore.

From outside, people just see you through the window, they don't see the curtain. Most of the time, they don't know it's there.

🪷 Grief isn't always visible. 🪷

And it's not only attached to a death.

🪷 It's the loss of a role, or a part of yourself.
🪷 A future you'd been counting on that isn't happening now.
🪷A relationship fading out slowly, over years, not all at once.
🪷 Watching someone's care needs grow and the shape of your relationship change with it. Disappointment. Heartache.

And even when someone has died, no two people grieve that death the same way. What you're carrying is only ever really known to you.

We're not all looking at the world the same way. I don't think that's a bad thing, I think it means we get curious instead of assuming.

So, what's happening for you? What do you need? What can I offer?

Welcome to Grief Guide, I'm so glad you're here.