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Learning experience or unmitigated disaster?
I'm taking suggestions from the audience
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I don't want to have a bath
No, I don't smell! That much
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I'm the weirdest person in the world
Sorry if you thought you were in the running
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Thank god for housework (sorry, Mum)
Proof that grief rots your brain
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I'll tell you what grievers really, really want
It's not a zig-a-zig-ah
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I’ve spent eight months enraged by an emoji
Please consider this my official apology
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The trouble with triggers
Everything, everywhere, all at once
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Lower Your Expectations
Lower Your Expectations
Writing through disaster(s)
Grief resources
The New Normal
Free peer support groups
The Grief Gang
Group circles and podcast
Julia Samuel
Grief Works app, books, newsletter etc
Cruse
National bereavement support charity
Samaritans
Call 116 123 anytime
Marie Curie
Free information and emotional support line
Pop culture that saved my life
The Elis James and John Robins podcast
Shrinking
Nobody Wants This.
Hacks

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