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    Sugar coated grief is still grief, no matter how you coat it

    October 5, 2017

    I returned to the place of my mother’s death today. A lone hospital room in neutral hues with a view of the blossom trees thatContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Suicide, a 7 letter word with more than 13 reasons why

    April 18, 2017

    This post is about suicide. It may trigger you or cause you distress. You have every right to look away if you think it willContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
    • Loss
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    Death is in the details and on my phone

    March 5, 2017

    I have photos of my dead mother on my phone. Not my mother before she died but my mother’s body after her death. I don’tContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Thanks for the Facebook memories, not

    April 20, 2016

    ‘Facebook memories’ let me know that my mother, Joy, died 18 months ago this last week. Thanks Facebook. Now there’s an anniversary I wasn’t planningContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Looking for joy in the bottom of a peanut butter jar

    October 7, 2015

    I am supposed to be writing a book but instead I am writing a blog, but they both start with a ‘b’ so I considerContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Even on the darkest night there are always stars

    July 3, 2015

    No one is immune to depression. I learnt that this week when a friend died by her own hand. Her stunning renovated home in anContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    The panic before the heart of the storm

    June 7, 2015

    Sell. Donate. Dump. Three words I have been living by for almost two weeks. I am moving. Scratch that, I am evacuating. Selling everything inContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    A bubble room for one – the solace of grief

    January 18, 2015

    I have just spent half an hour sobbing into a Sass & Bide t-shirt found on the floor of my car parked outside a ThomasContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Walk, walk, walk the end of the relationship talk

    January 14, 2015

    I am obsessed, obsessed I tell you, by the Let Them Walk video currently doing the social media rounds (I’ve posted it at the bottomContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Gratitude is contagious, in a really good way

    January 11, 2015

    Did you know you can’t actually physically break the heart? It is the hardest working muscle of the body and can beat over three billionContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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