We end our Grief Stories series with a conversation with Emily Bazalgette who set up and runs GriefSick: a project exploring and bearing witness to chronic illness grief. Emily saw the need to provide a space where chronically ill people could explore the subject of grief, and is training in grief tending. Emily shares her own story and explains some of her findings from her research into grief and how models around grief may or may not apply to the unique experience of chronic illness. We talked about the importance of collective witnessing of grief and how as a society we need to become more grief literate.
You can checkout and subscribe to Emily's newsletter, GriefSick here: https://griefsick.substack.com/
Emily talked about the work of Francis Weller and the Five Gates of Grief. The work of Francis Weller can be found via his website: https://www.francisweller.net/ You can hear Francis Weller talk about the Five Gates of Grief in this interview: https://youtu.be/vRIqTMInPJk?si=hz2yw…
Ellen Samuels’ essay, Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time, is here
https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/5824/4684
Tonkin’s model, Growing Around Grief, is outlined here
https://www.cruse.org.uk/understanding-grief/effects-of-grief/growing-around-grief/
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