Suzanne Rizk on the challenges of her mother’s death during Covid

In this profoundly moving episode, Suzanne opens up about all the challenges that surrounded her mother’s death during Covid-19. Covid was an incredibly difficult time for all of us but the greatest challenge had to be the heightened complexity of a Covid death. Many of you will resonate with Suzanne’s moving story and the psychological difficulties the Covid restrictions imposed on all of us.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• The heightened complexity of a Covid death and the mental toll caused by the restrictions.
• How we grieve for the future as well as the past.
• When anger contaminates all your feelings, you should turn to a 4 step tool to help you release it.
• Why it’s never too late to have rituals when someone has died - nor is it ever too late to mourn.
• Grief is held in the body and often feels like fear. 
• While we internally acknowledge that we are mortal, we never acknowledge that we will all be bereaved at some point in our lives.

Support links: 

Cruse Bereavement Support: https://www.cruse.org.uk/

Grief Works App: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/grief-works-self-care-love/id1558867513

Grief Works Book: https://juliasamuel.co.uk/books/grief-works

Find Julia:

Website: https://juliasamuel.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliasamuelmbe/

Produced by Georgie Rutherford

Edited by Nick Kingswell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices