Using positive engagement to fill in the gaps
Last week I met a lovely young woman whose brother had died from a brain tumour 10 months earlier. She felt that she could tell me about this because I met her in a work capacity and she had already listened to me talking about grief and my own struggles to find a way through traumatic bereavement. As we talked, she opened up a bit more and started telling me how she was feeling. I haven’t been able to get the conversation out of my head and the more I thought about it, the more I felt the need to …