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For anyone who has ever fallen off a wagon
Why don't I want to write? And how do I start again?
Jun 24
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Rachel Hewitt
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A Meditation on Discovering the Capacity to Mother Ourselves
When meditating, the mind is often busy with plans and thoughts, some of which are self-critical. What happens when we imagine these thoughts as small…
Mar 20
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Rachel Hewitt
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WTWH #4: Grievers don't necessarily mind if you say 'the wrong thing'. We just want you to stick around.
I'm interviewing people about their experiences of complicated grief and I've learned that (a) it's scary to ask people about grief, and (b) it…
Mar 13
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Rachel Hewitt
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When the Worst Happens #3: The Land of 'What Ifs'
Grief doesn't begin at the point of death. The grieving mind is fixated with the period preceding the death, incessantly searching, in retrospect, for…
Feb 27
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Rachel Hewitt
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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…
Feb 11
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Rachel Hewitt
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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…
Feb 6
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Rachel Hewitt
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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…
Jan 29
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Rachel Hewitt
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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?
Dec 15, 2025
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Rachel Hewitt
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What has happened to sympathy?
The way we show sympathy towards one another has radically changed over the last couple of decades.
Dec 3, 2025
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Rachel Hewitt
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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…
Oct 28, 2025
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Rachel Hewitt
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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"
Oct 22, 2025
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Rachel Hewitt
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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
Sep 18, 2025
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Rachel Hewitt
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