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Grief at Christmas: Making space for what you need | Jennie Cashman

Grief at Christmas can feel particularly lonely when everything around you insists you should be having a wonderful time. There are presents to organise, traditions to keep and people asking whether you’re feeling festive yet, while you’re trying to work out how to get through a day that makes someone’s absence feel even bigger. Whether it’s your first Christmas without them or many years have passed, the expectations can be exhausting.

Jennie Cashman, author of Becoming Brave and founder of the Abram Wilson charity, joins me to share how loss has shaped her experience of Christmas. Her baby…

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