Grief & Loss

SOMETIMES WHAT YOU’RE DEALING WITH GOES FAR BEYOND WORK

Bereavement, divorce, miscarriage, illness, caring responsibilities, redundancy or losing a sense of who you are through a change in role or identity can leave you feeling disorientated.

Life doesn't conveniently stop when you're in a leadership role.

I work with people who are trying to find a way to carry both: the weight of what has happened and the demands of work.

Grief can still be difficult to talk about

- particularly in the workplace, where there can be an unspoken expectation to carry on.

Grief doesn't follow a predictable path.

It can come in waves, change over time and affect every part of our lives — our relationships, our wellbeing, our confidence, our ability to lead and the ways we try to cope.

Sometimes we keep busy, stay strong and tell ourselves we'll deal with it later. But what we don't address doesn't necessarily disappear. It can continue to affect how we feel, think and show up at work and at home.

There is no right way to grieve, and no fixed timetable for moving forward.

Finding a way forward.

My role isn't to fix or give you a handbook on how to grieve.

It's to provide a safe, consistent space to talk, think and make sense of what is happening, with someone who won't be overwhelmed by your story or ask you to hurry through it.

Together, we can explore what has changed, what you're carrying and what you need now — emotionally, professionally and practically — and begin to think about how you want to move forward.

For senior leaders, that might mean finding a way to acknowledge profound personal loss without stepping away from leadership, and without pretending everything is fine.