The Japanese art form called Kintsugi 金継ぎ “golden joinery” is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer that is dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum. […]
All posts by mark oborn
Married at 23, widowed at 45. I've learned so much through this terrible process and just getting it down in this blog helps not only myself but others understand more about what happens when our partner dies. Thinking of you all!
Do widows celebrate a wedding anniversary? – You bet we do!
TRANSCRIPT:Hello, and welcome to a video from me, Mark at Lost Without Her. It’s been quite some considerable time since I posted a video. And as ever these are motivated […]
Advice for grief
I’m absolutely blown away by this. I asked a simple question on twitter: “If you were to give a single piece of advice to a new griever on their journey, […]
How to deal with the pain of a loved one dying
Sometimes these things just come to me, this was one of those times, so I created a video… Transcript I just want to share a little technique that I use […]
Book about grief
What an incredibly strange couple of weeks it’s been. I’m writing this as we come out of the Covid-19 lockdown, it’s been a time of social isolation and not much […]
50 Random Acts of Claireness
This September would have been Claire’s 50th birthday, and I’d like you to celebrate with me… So, I’d like to share with you an idea. But first, a little history… […]
#AfterLife by @rickygervais – One word. PAIN.
last night I watched the entire first series of AfterLife on Netflix. 3 hours of back-to-back episodes. Tears were streaming within 10 minutes of episode 1… And still haven’t stopped this morning. I […]
Grief does not discriminate
I was recently contacted by a man that wanted to join our support group on Facebook, he said words to the effect of: It was my husband that died, not a […]
Is there life after death?
I have the answer. Yes, 100% there is! Now I’m not talking about life after death for the person that has died, clearly, I’m talking about ‘is there life after […]
6 weeks to live
This picture popped up on my Facebook stream today as one of those memories. When I first saw this photo I got caught up in remembering this holiday, it was […]