For all those parents missing their children tonight. Such mixed feelings watching England without you Samuel 💜#SSNThreeLions #childloss #SuicidePrevention

Three Dads Walking – 300 Miles of Hope Have you got your copy of our book yet? Amazon have deals on the hardback and Kindle Edition Buy it here: amazon.co.uk/Three-Dads-Walk…

Just 10 days to go until the amazing Mr Town takes on this incredible 104 mile challenge and our children run a mile to raise funds for @PAPYRUS_Charity Please support us justgiving.com/page/focus15?…

Three Dads Walking - 300 Miles of Hope Our book about how our girls' suicides brought us together and what we discovered on our first walk is available in bookshops around the country It's also available through various retailers online: littlebrown.co.uk/titles/mik… @LittleBrownUK

Please read and share this article about why #JessLaw is so important. Don’t assume it does not effect you; it effects us all. One day this could save the life of someone you love the most. Someone like my Jess. Thank you so much @MetroUK @jessaustin111 metro.co.uk/2024/05/21/docto…

Grateful to have had a MY Wellbeing assembly with our Y6 children & colleagues & gifted a key ring. Key message: we all have emotions & we all have a trusted person with whom we can honestly share our emotions ⁦@BottledBook⁩ ⁦@matthew_dad⁩ ⁦@PAPYRUS_Charity⁩ 💜

What is normal after your Child dies? Normal is having tears waiting behind every smile because your child is missing from all the important events in your life. Normal is feeling like you can't sit another minute without getting up and screaming, because you just don't like to sit through anything anymore. Normal is not sleeping very well because a thousand what if's & why didn't I's go through your head constantly. Normal is reliving the day your child died, continuously through your eyes and mind, holding your head to make it go away. Normal is having the TV on the minute you walk into the house to have noise, because the silence is deafening. Normal is telling the story of your child's death as if it were an everyday, commonplace activity, and then seeing the horror in someone's eyes at how awful it sounds. And yet realizing it has become a part of your "normal." Normal is each year coming up with the difficult task of how to honor your childs's memory and their birthdays and survive these days. Normal is a heart warming and yet sinking feeling at the sight of something special your child loved. Normal is having some people afraid to mention your child. Normal is making sure that others remember your child. Normal is everyone else eventually going on with their lives. Normal is weeks, months, and years after the initial shock, the grieving gets worse, not better. Normal is not listening to people compare anything in their life to your loss, unless they too have lost a child. Nothing compares. Normal is realizing you do cry everyday. Normal is being impatient with everything and everyone except someone stricken with grief over the loss of their child. Normal is sitting at the computer crying, sharing how you feel with other grieving parents. Normal is being too tired to care if you paid the bills, cleaned the house, did the laundry or if there is any food. Normal is asking God why he took your child's life instead of yours. Normal is learning to lie to everyone you meet and telling them you are fine. You lie because it makes others uncomfortable if you cry. You've learned it's easier to lie to them then to tell them the truth that you still feel empty and lost. And last of all... Normal is hiding all the things that have become "normal" for you to feel, so that everyone around you will think that you are "normal." Written by A Grieving Mother 💕

There’s so much valuable work going on here delivering messages of hope 💜 #SuicidePrevention #SuicideAwareness There is always #hope 🙏

Yesterday I heard a young woman speaking on the radio about the loss of her mother. She was stoic & positive but faltered in her dialogue when describing her mother ‘slipping through her fingers’. I knew what she meant. Many of you will. 💙Jess💙#grief #childloss #cancer #JessLaw

Thank you to our wonderful colleagues, children & families. Thank you for being you & for everything you do 🙏 I’m now going to enjoy the break with my family, friends & have sometime on my own. I hope you enjoy your time away from work whatever you may do.

Yesterday we left our much loved home. It was really difficult moving from Alexander's house, but we leave with lots of special memories bringing up our beautiful 4. I know he'd love the new house. I've left his Alexander rose, where it will hopefully remain. 💙 #grief #childloss

Julie Marson MP Presses Health Minister for Jess’s Law | Julie Marson. ⁦@VictoriaAtkins⁩ #earlycancerdiagnosis #nevertooyoung #JessLaw juliemarson.org.uk/news/juli…

3 Dads Walking – 300 Miles of Hope Our book about our daughters, the start of 3 Dads Walking and our first walk in 2021 will be published on April 4th. This video touches on how we came together, what we’ve learnt along the way and what we’re doing now. youtu.be/DIyIZWvYggk?si=Yfh9…

“When I am gone, do not fear my memory. Do not be afraid to speak my name or look through old photographs. Do not be scared to play old videos so that you might hear my voice and see me laughing. Do not be wary of visiting my favourite places or eating my favourite foods or singing along to my favourite songs. I know it will hurt. Those memories will remind you that I am gone. They will stab at you like a knife in an open, gaping wound. Raw, excruciating pain. But after a while the knife will become less sharp, the wound will become less open and the pain will become less raw. And those memories will remind you that I was here. That I lived. Do not reduce my life to my death. Speak my name, hear my voice, sing my favourite songs and visit my favourite places. Because that’s how I can stay alive a little. Right here with you.” 🧡 Memories are the legacy of love. Wonderfully written by Becky Hemsley ❤️ Artwork by Amanda Cass ❤️