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When the Worst Happens #2: Is There a Timeline for Grieving?
When my husband died, I was desperate to find someone who could tell me how long it would take before I felt 'normal' again. But is there such as thing…
 • Rachel Hewitt
When The Worst Happens #1: What Is Complicated Grief?
Straightforward grief is something that happens *to you* - in that there’s still a semblance of a *you* for it to happen to - but complicated grief…
 • Rachel Hewitt
When the Worst Happens: A Guide to Complicated Grief
Imagine that the worst happens, and somebody close to you dies, perhaps unexpectedly or violently. You're dropped onto an island of pure horror. What do…
 • Rachel Hewitt
Family estrangement: why do the loudest voices belong to people who have *been* cut off?
And why do people who initiate estrangements remain relatively quiet?
 • Rachel Hewitt
What has happened to sympathy?
The way we show sympathy towards one another has radically changed over the last couple of decades.
 • Rachel Hewitt
Why Women Stay Silent after Discovering Men's Secrets
In a number of posts this year, I’ve written about a little-discussed but increasingly prevalent phenomenon: the posthumous discovery of secrets, after…
 • Rachel Hewitt
Finding new shapes for time in mid-life
"I am now undeniably in peri-menopause and it's changing my experience of the passing and purpose of time"
 • Rachel Hewitt
Long Read: The Lost History of the Widows' Liberation Movement - Part 1
How modern-day grief support groups originated with second-wave feminism, and with one woman in particular
 • Rachel Hewitt
Bereavement and its Gendered Inequalities
Is grief really a 'universal experience'? I think not.
 • Rachel Hewitt
Going on holiday as a solo parent for the first time(s)
My advice: keep the stakes and expectations low
 • Rachel Hewitt
What happens when your husband dies and you discover he was keeping secrets?
And how to support a friend who has lost someone who may have been keeping secrets from them
 • Rachel Hewitt
In praise of not working hard
What if it's not true that 'everything that's worth doing involves hard work'?
 • Rachel Hewitt
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