The Wednesday Wellbeing show 23rd of December 2020 With Debi Richens

This week on the #wednesdaywellbeing show I'm chatting with Debi Richens an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist. Whether it's your first Christmas after a bereavement, or you lost someone long ago, Christmas can be a particularly painful time. Grief comes in many forms, the loss of a job, huge lifestyle changes or simply not being able to see or connect with loved ones. Debi is a wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, and friend.  She is also a doggy mum to Macy, the 3-legged Jack Russell (7) and parrot mum to Harvey, the African Grey Parrot (14). A multi-talented lady who has had a varied career. Everything from working on a farm, garden landscape design, dentistry, running her own bespoke lingerie business, caring for an elderly relative, and running a support group for alienated grandparents. She now dedicates her time to supporting those who are struggling with grief. This week Debi shares her life experience and her healing journey. We discuss family breakdowns and disconnection. Dealing with death at Christmas time.  We discuss how grief can impact our health, work and life. We discuss the challenges we face when caring for an elderly relative with health issues such a dementia. How grief tends to be accompanied by relationship, behavioural, and financial issues and can impact your self-worth. We discuss really helpful strategies and the massive inportance of self-care. A difficult topic but so important to discuss particularly at this time of the year. https://www.griefuk.org/debi https://facebook.com/DebiRichensCGRS https://www.instagram.com/debirichens77 https://www.twitter.com/debi_richens https://www.linkedin.com/in/debi-richens-5b473b43/Support the showThis podcast is sponsored by The Northern College of Clinical Hypnotherapywww.thenortherncollegeofclinicalhypnotherapy.com