Grief Talks
Part of Brave Talks
Grief Talks is a personal space for stories, conversations and reflections around grief, loss, death and end of life.
Grief can change the way we see ourselves, our relationships and the world around us. Grief Talks is a space for honest reflections, personal stories and conversations about grief, loss, love and what comes after. A place to pause, to listen, to remember, and to explore the parts of grief we don't always have words for.
Why Grief Talks?
Grief Talks is a space for honest conversations, stories and reflections about grief, loss, death and end of life- for people who live with grief, work with grief, or simply want to understand it differently. I created Grief Talks from my own experience of loss. Losing someone we love can change the way we see ourselves, our relationships and the world around us. I don't believe grief is something we simply move on from. I believe we can learn to live alongside it, to speak about it, and to make space for everything it can bring. Grief Talks is my way of creating that space.
Travellers Through Grief
Grief is not a landmark we pass, but a world we learn to inhabit. It is the quiet companion that walks beside us, changing form but never truly leaving. Travellers Through Grief began as a personal project after my own loss - a way of making sense of grief through stories, memories, conversations and the experience of continuing to live after someone dies.
Our stories are not meant to be hidden. They can become maps for others who are finding their way through something they never expected to face. Here, we slow down the conversation. We move beyond clinical definitions and familiar platitudes to explore the messy, beautiful and often contradictory reality of living with loss.
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Grief & Loss
Grief is not a landmark we pass, but a landscape we learn to inhabit. Here, we explore the many forms grief can take bereavement, anticipatory grief, identity, loneliness, anger, guilt, love, memory and all the feelings that don't always fit neatly into words.
Learning to live alongside what we cannot change.
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Death & Dying
Conversations about death, dying and end of life are often difficult to begin. Here, we explore the practical and emotional realities around dying, caring, saying goodbye and bereavement while making room for questions, uncertainty and different ways of approaching the end of life.
Finding words for the conversations we often avoid.
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Living with Loss
What happens after the funeral? Life doesn't simply return to the way it was. We continue changed, carrying memories, relationships and questions with us. Here, we explore what it means to live alongside loss: identity, relationships, parenting, love after loss, finding meaning, rebuilding a life and discovering who we become when someone we love is no longer here. There is no single way to do this. There is only your way.
Grief can change us, without needing to become a lesson, a transformation, or a reason to become someone new.
Grief Companion · End-of-Life Doula · Member of the End-of-Life Doula Association in the UK
A little about me
I'm Reka, a Grief Companion and End-of-Life Doula. I'm not an expert on grief - and I don't believe anyone else can be the expert on another person's grief. I see my role as a facilitator and a companion: someone who listens, holds space and helps make difficult conversations a little easier to enter. We are each the experts of our own grief. Through Grief Talks, I want to create space for those conversations, one story at a time.
A little more about my work
Grief Companion
A Grief Companion offers presence, listening and practical support alongside people experiencing grief and loss. The role is not to fix grief or tell someone how they should grieve, but to accompany them with compassion and without judgement.
End-of-Life Doula
An End-of-Life Doula offers non-medical, emotional, practical and sometimes spiritual support to people and families before, during and after death. The role can include helping people have conversations about dying, wishes, relationships, meaning and what matters to them.
These roles are separate from Brave Talks. Brave Talks is a community initiative, not a therapy, counselling or end-of-life care service.
Useful Resources
More to come
I'll keep adding books, films, conversations, organisations and other resources that I find meaningful and useful.
A small, carefully selected collection of resources for people navigating grief, supporting someone who is grieving, or simply wanting to understand death and loss a little differently.
Conversations That Matter
People who live with these experiences
People who work with these experiences
People who challenge the way we think
People with lived experience of grief, loss, addiction, trauma, relationships, or major life change.
Therapists, counsellors, social workers, healthcare professionals, educators, artists, and others who support people through difficult experiences.
Writers, artists, researchers, storytellers, activists, and people whose experiences offer a different perspective.
Conversations are coming soon.
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A Community Space
Brave Talks is a community space, not therapy or counselling. We create space to sit with difficult experiences, reflect, and connect. If a conversation brings up something that feels difficult to hold on your own, professional support may be appropriate.