Echoes of Hope, Harmonies of Heart
We know from experience how overwhelming grief can feel, and how important it is to meet people who truly understand. Our friends organisation offers a safe place to share, heal and find a way forward at your own pace, without expectations.
They say the Welsh have a word for a kind of longing that doesn’t quite exist anywhere else — hiraeth. It rolls off the tongue like the wind coming down from the hills, a little soft at the start, lingering at the end.
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered.”
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
