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A short video on Loss of Voice.. who am I? What do I want to say? What are my feelings and opinions?
https://www.facebook.com/dawn.ford.509/videos/10218194068307350 photo credit; Oscar Keya - Unsplash

Dawn Ford
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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Sunday Breakfast with Kate Justice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08zbncs (3:40.00 - 3:48.00) This is the radio interview I did with the lovely Kate Justice of BBC...

Dawn Ford
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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Podcast: All Things Grief, Loss and Wellbeing.
photo crdit: Eric Ward - Unsplash

Dawn Ford
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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We can do both - cry tears and smile because they lived.
I heard this poem read out as part of a funeral service; the first Covid funeral I have seen (webcast) and it was so unbelievably sad to...

Dawn Ford
Jan 25, 20212 min read
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"Lack of forgiveness always IMPRISONS the wrong person"
Monday night's Helping Children With Loss (3rd session) went in a flash and there was so much discussion in the group; which is always...

Dawn Ford
Jan 23, 20213 min read
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THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF DIVORCE
As written by a wonderful client of mine after she completed The Grief Recovery Method . In the summer of 2016 I discovered my husband of...

Dawn Ford
Jan 20, 20214 min read
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Do Schools Tend To Treat Grief As A Discipline Issue Rather Than An Emotional Reality?
Last night was another interesting and eye-opening session - Week 2 of the "Helping Children With Loss' training and one of the topics...

Dawn Ford
Jan 19, 20213 min read
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Incomplete Grief - What is it and can it be resolved?
A large discussion point from last night's Week 2 of the 'Helping Children with Loss' programme was Incomplete Grief. What is it? How do...

Dawn Ford
Jan 19, 20213 min read
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"Your mind can try its best to forget, to avoid, but the body remembers."
"I don't need any of these dates marked in my calendar to remember them - though they are listed in all my Google calendars anyway....

Dawn Ford
Oct 26, 20203 min read
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It's called being Human
No Happy Endings - Nora McInerny I couldn't put this book down - it is one of the best books I have ever read on loss - even if I did...

Dawn Ford
Oct 25, 20204 min read
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So What is a Significant Loss?
Basically any event that leaves us with a negative emotion can be a significant loss; be that great sadness, betrayal, shame, anger,...

Dawn Ford
Jul 3, 20201 min read
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When it comes to the death of our pet there is no such thing as 'just a ....'
On Monday 4th May 2020 we took our dear cat Monty to the vets to see if anything could be done for his poorly eye. We knew he wasn't...

Dawn Ford
May 26, 20203 min read
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Does Gratitude Ever Get in The Way of Our True Emotions?
The more I think about the question the more I realise that there could be something in this .. The definition of GRATUTUDE is to be...

Dawn Ford
Apr 16, 20203 min read
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Unresolved Emotional Baggage and Fred Sirieix the Charismatic Host from Channel 4's 'First Dates
"Master letting go of emotional baggage so you can love someone fully" Such wise words from Sirieix and a belief shared by myself and the...

Dawn Ford
Mar 29, 20202 min read
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'Don't be the people-pleaser who dances for everyone except yourself. Dance only for you.'
What if This is Heaven... Anita Moorjani This is the follow up book to 'Dying To Be Me' which was a book I couldn't put down. This one...

Dawn Ford
Mar 29, 20206 min read
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The out pouring of grief that follows the death of a celebrity.
"I've been pressing the snooze button on many stresses in my life - for my whole life." "I've accepted shame and toxic opinions on my...

Dawn Ford
Feb 23, 20202 min read
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Lady Gaga with Oprah Winfrey; Mental Health & Fibromyalgia
"There's a discipline for passion. It's not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down, or you get beaten up - it's about how...

Dawn Ford
Jan 27, 20207 min read
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Being Gail Porter
- viewed on BBC iPlayer "I never wanted to grow up." This was such an emotional documentary of a beautiful young lady who found fame at a...

Dawn Ford
Jan 23, 20206 min read
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The Other side of Release is Calm
January 2020 E-Motion 2.0 on Amazon Prime. I was astounded one minute and shouting Yes! at the TV the next. I didn't know: - The...

Dawn Ford
Jan 16, 20201 min read
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If you really want your mind blown..
" And if you really want your mind blown? Ask any woman how old they were the very first time they felt objectified/sexualised by a man,...

Dawn Ford
Jan 16, 20201 min read
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