If it is your own grief that has brought you to this website I hope I can appreciate the depths of the suffering you are feeling. Then perhaps the words you will read can be a healing balm to ease the pain in your heart. What is offered here are some understandings from my own episodes of anguish and those of my patients/clients and friends. We all suffer – some much more than others – as part of the human condition, and we have much to learn from each other.

Our grief is very personal, as if no one could ever appreciate how difficult it is for us to bear. And it feels so endless, even though we might be distracted from its gravity for brief moments here and there. C.S. Lewis, that great theologian and writer of the Narnia series of children’s books, is less well known for a small publication called ‘A Grief Observed’. In this he starkly describes the life-numbing agony in his heart during the months following the death of his ‘soul-mate’ wife whom he had known for only a short time. Faith in God was shattered and life lost all meaning although he continued to fulfil his duties as an Oxford don.

C.S.Lewis never fully recovered, although his appreciation of others’ pain was now a special agent of healing in his lectures and writings. Hopefully we can offer something here which might have eased his grief, and yours too if all goes well.

Perhaps we can find solace and guidance in the example of children who have lost a parent or who are soon to depart this mortal plane. Perhaps in the ancient teachings of the wisdom masters, or perhaps in the stories of those who not only endured their agonising loss but went on to use it as a catalyst for a new way of living, loving and enjoying life. We’ll share some of these thoughts with you here. Although they parallel what can be heard on the CDs, it is mostly new material, which we trust can be helpful in some way.