2019

World Suicide Prevention Day

Posted By SK Reid ,
10/09/2019 18:00 PM
My Experience of Suicide   Today is my friend Nancy's birthday. She killed herself in 2014. We found her. It was traumatic, especially knowing we were too late. It took us and the police and...

Wearing our heart on our sleeve

Posted By Brandi Lytle & SK Reid,
09/08/2019 21:00 PM
  I met Brandi online! Meeting people online seems to be the norm in our shrinking global village, and I came across her beautiful work whilst doing research for my new book. I was delighted to...

There are no roadmaps for grief

Posted By SK Reid ,
23/07/2019 19:00 PM
      "There are no roadmaps or guidebooks for dealing with death or grief and its aftermath."                        ...

The Ripple Effect of Trauma

Posted By SK Reid & Karen Percy,
11/07/2019 21:00 PM
Vicarious Trauma in Journalists: A Story of Resilience In this blog post, we will explore the impact of vicarious trauma on journalists. Vicarious trauma is a type of post-traumatic stre...

Warriors

Posted By SK Reid,
27/06/2019 20:00 PM
The Year was 2010. We were at a party and it was one of my first forays out into the real world after a really crappy year. There was small talk and I was really struggling to find anything much to...

The Four Elements of Grief

Posted By SK Reid,
24/06/2019 19:00 PM
The Elemental Aspects of Grief Grief is a journey that many of us will embark on at some point in our lives. It's a path filled with pain, learning, and, eventually, growth. In this blog post, I...

Things Don't Always Happen for a Reason

Posted By SK Reid,
23/06/2019 06:30 AM
Everything happens for a reason? Not necessarily. Not always. There is always a cause, a sequence of events, but this is not the same as some mysterious divine benevolent intervention, some ulterior ...

Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone

Posted By SK Reid,
30/05/2019 09:00 AM
View this post on Instagram Step outside your Comfort Zone. A New Horizon lives there! A bit of a daily ma...

Mother's Day 2019

Posted By SK Reid,
10/05/2019 21:00 PM
Every Mother’s Day is tough. It is the one enormous reminder of my losses. It’s difficult to explain, but my new book addresses the lifelong grief associated with being involuntarily...

The Language of Loss

Posted By SK Reid,
30/04/2019 19:00 PM
Hello Reader! I am running a series of blogs that I have posted to my Google Blogger site over the years. I originally came to the business of writing after the death of my first husband. This lead...