Devonshire Feb 16

Bereavement for children
Balloons
Death changes everything and yet life goes
on - Balloons covers Exeter, Mid & East
Devon to be there for the children who are
mourning the loss of a loved one.
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Editor - Averil Quinain
coachingholistic@gmail.com
tel: 07891 447710
01395 513383
Averil is a Personal Life Coach
and Business Development
Coach. She works voluntarily
for the Princes Trust as a
mentor for young people, and
for Oxfam as a school speaker.
With a passion for inspired
and responsible living, she
also runs an organic natural
remedy business. Averil
trained at the internationally
renowned CoachInc.com and
is a member of the ICF.
Bereavement is a distressing but
common experience. Sooner or
later almost all of us will suffer the
death of someone we love. If we
are young at the time of the death
then it is often our first experience
of bereavement and we can struggle
emotionally and cognitively to cope
with the loss.
Children are often the ‘forgotten
mourners’ in a household stricken
by a tragic death. Adults might
think that by not confronting the
Mourning is necessary for healing to take place
Children are often the 'forgotten mourners' in a household
issue head-on, they somehow shield
children from the pain; adults might
think that children don't understand
death, and therefore aren't affected
deeply by it; adults might themselves
be so caught up in their own grieving
that they struggle to include and
comfort children at such a raw and
difficult time.
Grief is the constellation of internal
thoughts and feelings we experience
when someone loved dies. Mourning
is the outward expression of our
grief, and mourning is necessary
for healing to take place. But who
can bear to sit alongside a mourning
child and hear their story?
Balloons, a small local charity
covering Exeter, Mid and East Devon,
was set up almost six years ago to do
exactly that. Balloons has supported
over 350 bereaved children and
young people, and worked with
in excess of 500 families; and
awareness about their services
continues to grow.
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