7d • General discussion
🧡 Why I created this space 🧡
I want to share a little of my story, so you know who is holding this space with you.
My first experience of grief was losing my grandmother. I wasn’t allowed to go to her funeral, and I didn’t receive the support I needed to understand or express what I was feeling.
Then came the loss that changed my life forever.
My firstborn son, Adam, died aged four after a three-year journey with cancer.
There are no words that can fully describe losing your child. The longing to hold them again. The life you imagined together. The love that is still there, with nowhere familiar to go.
Shortly afterwards, my dad died suddenly from a fatal heart attack. Around 18 months later, I lost my mum after a long illness involving kidney problems.
So much loss, with so little space to take in what had happened.
I went on to have my son Nathan, but sadly experienced a miscarriage when I became pregnant again after him. Later, I had Daniel. My two rainbow babies brought love and joy into my life, while the love and grief for those I had lost remained.
For many years, I suppressed so much of that grief. I carried on with life, looking after everyone and doing what needed to be done.
But carrying on wasn’t the same as feeling fully alive.
Discovering energy healing became a huge turning point for me. In my own experience, it helped me make space for feelings I had carried for years and begin to embrace life on a completely different level.
It didn’t erase my losses. It helped me find a way to live with them with more peace, love and possibility.
And something happened that I hadn’t expected: I began to feel more connected to my loved ones.
More connected, in fact, than when I used to spend hours at the grave.
I know that desperate wish to have them physically beside you again. To hear their voice, feel their arms around you or have one more ordinary day together.
That physical absence matters deeply.
For me, there has also been comfort in discovering that my relationship with them can continue in a different way — through memories, love, quiet moments and my spiritual sense of their presence.
I believe they remain in our hearts forever, and our soul bond can never be broken.
You don’t have to share my beliefs to belong here. There is space for your questions, your uncertainty and your own understanding of connection.
What I want for you is the opportunity to find your own way towards a life that holds both your love and the possibility of joy.
A life where you can remember, speak their name, honour what matters and still have a future.
That is why this circle exists.
If you feel comfortable sharing, what would you most like people to understand about your grief? A few words are enough.
Much love,
Jude 💛
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🧡 Why I created this space 🧡
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