Margaret Lennon - Certified Grief and Loss Specialist and Life Coach

04/01/2026

So who is ready to 'sort their stuff out'?

We're really good at having a physical clear out (spare bedroom) or body cleanse (dry January) - New Year = New Start!

But what about the internal, emotional stuff? The stuff that keeps us awake at night - makes us snappy and irritable - makes us emotional for no reason! what are you doing about that?

If we have toothache we see a dentist. Back pain? We see the doctor. So, when we struggle emotionally and feel we are not coping, why do we tell ourselves (and others) that we’re fine and do NOTHING about it?

If you’re tired of coping instead of living. If you're not sleeping properly. If you become upset when you don't want to. It’s time to 'SORT YOUR STUFF OUT'!

Get in touch on 97805274 to find out more about your 7 session action plan (1 hour per session).

04/01/2026

The New Year is meant to feel hopeful. But when you are grieving, it can feel painfully heavy. While the world looks ahead, you may be standing still, acutely aware of what — and who — is missing.

Grief does not disappear when the calendar turns. Love does not fade with time. A new year can simply mean another year without someone you love, or another year living with the loss of health, safety, connection, or the future you once believed in.

Grief is not only about death. It can come from miscarriage, infertility, illness, estrangement, retirement, or a relationship that changed your life forever. When everyone else seems to be moving forward, your grief can feel louder, lonelier.

You may hear a quiet ache inside saying, “I thought this would hurt less by now.” That voice does not mean you are failing. It means you loved deeply. Grief is a natural response to loss, and when it lingers, it is often because something important was never given space to be expressed.

You do not have to feel hopeful. You do not need resolutions. You are allowed to admit that your life is different now. Naming your grief is not giving up — for many, it is the first moment of relief.

There is no timetable for healing. If the New Year feels unbearable, you are not broken and you are not alone. Your grief matters, and it deserves compassion.

If you are ready for a gentle first step, call me on 97805274 to learn how the Grief Recovery Method can help you begin.

31/12/2025

Do you find yourself reflecting on your life as the new year approaches? I don’t know about you, but Auld Lang Syne always makes me reminiscent of the past.

As the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Eve it will make it just over 5 months of living my own real life nightmare. Souni was struck by a huge wildfire which saw my husband and I, a number of neighbours and friends lose part of, or everything they have worked so hard for. Houses, personal possessions, pets, health, lives, memories and so on - gone! I can’t be silent on this. It will haunt me forever. In the space of 12 hours I went from being happy having broken up for the summer holidays spending two lovely weeks hosting my best friend and then getting excited about my next visitors arriving, to being catapulted into a role of trying to absorb the devastation around me and trying to hold us all together and sort through a sea of hurt. I got lost in it. I got lost in the unimaginable pain and fear while trying to navigate something no one should ever experience. We had become a community of grievers and there remains not a thing that feels untouched by this tragedy, family, friendships, health, the environment- everything. It has changed all of it! It’s not like any other loss I have experienced before. It’s always hard to lose a loved one, but in this way the pain is completely different and almost indescribable - every loss matters.

So to anyone reading this, If you are feeling down or depressed at all, if you are feeling like this life is too hard for you, if you feel like you have a burden you just can’t escape, if you have a problem in your life you are struggling to deal with, please seek help. If you just talk about it with one person I promise the load you are bearing will lighten. There is a way out. I know there is. Just imagine your life in a years time. It could be so different. There is so much to live for. Time doesn’t heal this hurt - it’s what you do within that time which will give you the help you need.

Perhaps you’re thinking about relationships that didn’t end the way you wanted, or maybe you feel regret over things you wish would have ended differently, better or more.

The problem with regret is that it keeps you out of the moment and it robs you of joy. Regretting things you wish you’d said or done can stay with you for a long time, and limit your capacity for happiness. Sadly, it can impact your current and future relationships as well.

29/07/2025

The five stages of death and dying, designed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, were groundbreaking in their time. They gave dignity to those facing terminal illness and transformed how we care for the dying.

But somewhere along the way, society made a crucial error: we took those stages and applied them to grief. And grief is not the same as dying.

Grief is a distinct emotional experience. It’s not linear. It doesn’t follow a tidy progression. Yet professionals across fields—mental health, ministry, social work—are still being taught to apply a model never intended for the grieving.

That’s why so many feel broken when they don’t ‘fit’ the stages. The truth is: there are no stages of grief. There are only individual responses to unique relationships—and that deserves a new approach.

21/05/2025

10/03/2024

My thoughts are with you all today and I’m sending lots of love to all those that need it today ❤️❤️

01/12/2023

So important to mark the start of National Grief Awareness Week tomorrow - 2nd-8th December

27/08/2023

And nobody does this better than us! This seven week program is unique in that we don’t give advice, pass judgement, analyse or criticise - we only ensure that you are heard with absolute confidentiality and it WORKS! If you want your life back, it’s never too early or too late to contact me. Not convinced? Look at what others have said.

27/08/2023

Grief doesn’t just have to be about death. Grief can be experienced from a whole host of situations: loss of health, divorce, friendship or relationship break up, moving school or country and leaving friends behind. These are just to name a few.

23/08/2023

Years ago in one of our Grief Recovery Method Workshops there were two grieving widows. One of the women described the wonderful relationship she’d had with her husband of 40 years. The other woman talked about an abusive and painful 40 year marriage. So while both women were widows from 40 year marriages, that’s all they had in common. But even if both had had fully loving and supportive relationships, the marriages still wouldn’t have been exactly the same because unique individuals make up relationships. This is why it’s important not to try to fit grievers in perfect little boxes.

05/08/2023