‘Just remember that you're worthy of love. Remember that you're worthy of compassion. You're worthy of having space to laugh.’

To mark National Bereaved Parents Day, Aisha Peters shares her words of hope, and talks of how she has created a Beautiful Vision in her daughter Damali’s name.

When Damali died suddenly aged just 3, Aisha had nowhere to turn that offered the safe and culturally appropriate support she needed. Now she’s the CEO of a wonderful organisation doing just that.

Damali Beautiful Vision CIC is a community interest company supporting Global Majority community members and their families in their navigation of bereavement due to the sudden loss of a young child and or a young adult.

Summertime events with Damali Beautiful Vision CIC.

VEWA Productions is Aisha’s vocal coaching, sound healing and guided meditation company offering online sessions for 1-1 and groups.

This episode is dedicated to Damali.

When Vicki’s daughter Fi was involved in a road traffic incident, her parents helped to enact her wish to become an organ donor.

Vicki talks about that process, and how she finds ‘active grief’ allows her to pursue a happy and fulfilling life without taking away from the sadness of losing Fi.

She also tells us about how Fi continues to drive some amazing things that are done in her name, mainly relating to FEES Fund.

For more information about the Donor Family Care Service, click here.

You can find all about FEES FUND here

If you fancy trying open water swimming, Swim England will help you find a local venue.

Vicki has also written about her family and their wider losses and stories of survival, and you can find details on our website.

This episode is dedicated to Fi.

Smothered with kindness or have friends seemingly abandoned you? What is the right thing to do when a child dies?

We’re heading off down a different path in this episode, taking a look into research around the ‘should and shouldn’ts’ of grief behaviours in our society, and what that might mean to us specifically as bereaved parents.

Our guest is Dr Jennie Dayes, and as well as explaining her research she’s also taking us through how she came to produce some rather lovely continuing bonds resources.

To read Jennie’s research about grief etiquette, click here.

To view the Continuing Bonds cards, click here.

This episode is dedicated to Betty.