Reuben's mum was diagnosed with breast cancer in the Spring of 2021, and died shortly before Christmas. In conversation with psychologist, Erin Thompson, we talk about how people may prepare for and manage grief.
Reuben's mum was diagnosed with breast cancer in the Spring of 2021, and died shortly before Christmas. In conversation with psychologist, Erin Thompson, we talk about how people may prepare for and manage grief.
I knew before it happened that we'd done and said everything we wanted to
When Reuben's mum was first diagnosed with breast cancer, neither she nor his dad told him how serious it was. As time went on, though, they came to understand that she did not have very long, and had to accept the reality that she would soon pass away.
He speaks about how he and his family drew closer together in his mum's final months, how he turned to multiple different friends to gain support without feeling like a 'burden', and also how grief hasn't impacted him quite as he expected it to.
In this episode of The Breast Cancer Now Podcast, Reuben and Erin speak honestly and openly about the ways grief can affect us, and share a very positive outlook of caring for oneself following the death of a loved one.
It's hard to process what's happening while it's happening, so what we often see in cancer bereavement is that - if someone does die - it's not just that we're having to process the loss of them not being in our lives anymore, we're also processing everything that happened before.
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