SURVIVING THE TSUNAMI OF GRIEF
By Katrina Taee and Wendelien McNicoll
Blog Post
LONELINESS DURING LOCKDOWN WHEN YOU ARE GRIEVING
Katrina Taee • November 19, 2020
Does lockdown intensify grief and loneliness?
Grief can feel very lonely at anytime of the day or night when we are bereaved and we can also feel at our loneliest, when we are in the midst of people. We don't have to be alone to feel alone. With the person we love missing from our life, loneliness is a default setting. Sometimes we can go about our daily lives for moments of normality but we come back to that empty sense of isolation often, and it hurts.
The recent lockdown is an enforced separation for large swathes of us and many bereaved people are experiencing it as a deep reflection of how they feel and may be more comfortable to be indoors with their grief, more private and more enclosed. Others who don't want to dwell on their grief and keep busy may be finding the lockdown akin to a prod of their grief which they would rather not be enduring.
Whether you are someone who is very private in your grief or someone who wears your heart on your sleeve and has no qualms about outward displays of grief, lockdown presents challenges you could have done without just now. The enforced isolation from friends, family, your community and your support network may be taking it's toll.
So if you are someone who is feeling alone, please reach out to a family member or a friend when you need to and if you are one of those family members or friends who are supporting a bereaved person, get in touch today and see how they are. Make no mistake, lockdown just adds a layer to the grief which makes things harder.
We really hope our book offers some understanding and support to any of you who are grieving but especially so during this lockdown. Our hearts go out to you all.
Our 3rd Reprint has just arrived with new foreword
Liz Gleeson's new short animated film about some of the common experiences of grief.
Authors of Surviving the Tsunami of Grief, Wendelien McNicoll and Katrina Taee attend the official launch of Liz Gleeson's Shapes of Grief Education Programme in Greystones, Ireland.