How to understand your grief through writing

“Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love”, CS Lewis wrote in A Grief Observed (1966) and no time of year offers a greater sense of this than Christmas, with its traditions and jollity and its focus on family and friends.

Losing a family member at such a time can bring with it an added level of grief.

From then on, Christmas is coloured with their loss…