Karen Lafferty

When I first started specialising in grief, one of the main areas that I worked in was supporting women who had experienced pregnancy loss of some sort. Every October, families, healthcare professionals, and advocacy organisations across the UK come together for Baby loss Awareness Week (9–15 October). This week is dedicated to acknowledging the devastating impact of baby loss through pregnancy, birth, or in the early days of life. It is a time to raise awareness, honour every baby’s memory,...

A gentle note before you read: this post talks about difficult family relationships and the complicated feelings that can follow a death. Please take it at your own pace, and step away whenever you need to. If your mother has died and your feelings are tangled, you are not doing grief wrong. Many people feel sadness, anger, relief and guilt all at once after losing a parent they had a difficult relationship with. These feelings can sit side by side, and none of them cancels out the others....

In this Grief Unedited episode, grief counsellor Karen Lafferty speaks with life coach and grief educator Lisa Archer about the many forms of loss, how to support a grieving friend, and what it means to move forward without moving on.