Ep 33 - Lizzie Pickering - Grief and Resilience

How do we live with grief?

Lizzie Pickering offers grief guidance and is a speaker, podcaster, author and film maker.

Her book 'When Grief Equals Love' is out now.

She offers guidance to private individuals and companies on the effects of grief, whether through bereavement, divorce, diagnosis or workplace change.

She has 23 years of experience investigating responses to shock, trauma and grief, through her films, podcasts, and the years she spent as a carer to her terminally ill, eldest child, Harry. Subsequently through 12 years working at the children’s hospice where Harry died, she worked closely with the bereavement team on peer-to-peer support and had the privilege of hearing the stories of many bereaved parents and siblings.

When Harry died in 2000, she set out on a journey to understand how she could survive her grief and learn to live with it. In her book, out now, When Grief Equals Love, she details the lessons she’s learned from her own experiences and those of others, who share their thoughts in this moving and powerful book.

Lizzie opens her diaries, written in the early years after Harry’s death, revealing her observations on the grief of his siblings and family, what helped and what hurt. Revisiting those diaries, she reflects on time passing, and what has changed for her and her family since.

Lizzie looks at the myth of closure, survivor’s energy and cumulative grief – when life experiences pile up and become too much to bear.

In the book, she writes ‘it took a long time and much investigation into how to survive my own grief, and that is work in progress, but I hope that some of what I have learned so far might resonate’.

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You can find out more about Lizzie Pickering and her work

Website: https://lizziepickering.com

Instagram: @lizzie.pickering

Twitter: @PickeringLizzie

Buy her Book: When Grief Equals Love

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