Community Blog: Reflections on a variety of griefy topics.
Get in touch if you’d like to submit something, we’d love to hear from you: grief.programmes@kaplan.com
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Grief & Fresher’s
Grief is different for everyone, but there are some tensions we might want to consider as students start a new year at university.
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Support for those affected by suicide
How can we build a world that supports people to live? And where can we go if we are are feeling suicidal, or have lost someone to suicide?
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Grief doesn’t stop when the funeral ends
Lots of people think life starts going back to normal after the funeral, but for many of us, that’s when the real grieving begins.
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What we need from relationships can change with grief
Relationships are tricky when we’re grieving. At a time when we most need support, we may feel misunderstood and disconnected from the people around us.
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The imprint of grief and impact of alternative therapies
Amber Jarman-Crainey talks about her experience of grief, and her latest show ‘B O U N D’ that explores nine stories of loss through movement, music and memories.
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Coping with suicide loss as a student
Losing someone to suicide can bring up a whole array of difficult feelings that can be overwhelming to deal with all at once, especially on your own, and while you’re also balancing the pressure of university life.
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Grief and activism in an unjust world
I want to send my love to all those mourning around the world; I want to show my solidarity with all the people caught in oppressive and violent systems; and I want to share a couple of thoughts in relation to grief.
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Losing Young, quarter-life grief and why community matters
To commemorate her new book, Rachel Wilson shares some thoughts on grieving as a young adult. It’s a period in our lives that is ‘meant’ to be full of opportunity and exploration, but can be incredibly isolating and overwhelming when you’re facing loss.
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Responding to the Nottingham attacks
Last week I was contacted by the BBC to speak about student bereavement. Yes, this is in response to the loss of two students in Nottingham, but it is also about the thousands of students experiencing grief every day.
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After Tom
A creative piece based on the experience of losing my uncle, Tom, and the days that followed his death as I helped care for my grandparents.
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Sometimes I don’t want to be hopeful
The Student Grief Network is all about hope, really, but I think it’s also important to acknowledge those times when hope it the last thing we want to hear about. When we want the utter devastation of a situation to be allowed.
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Grieving in the Digital Age
Social media and online communities can play an important role connecting people who are grieving and shedding light on a whole range of experiences. But digital platforms can also lead to misinformation, unhealthy distraction, and increased levels of loneliness. How do we balance these pros and cons?