Melanie

“I didn’t get taken to funerals as a child, I got left behind. As a result I had no healthy death experiences to draw from. I became a funeral-avoidant death-phobic scaredy-cat. I was so bad at dealing with loss, terrible at supporting friends. I didn’t know what to say and often for fear of saying […]

Yvonne and Carl

“Last December, Carl came into the store, looking at the Christmas lights, and I was tidying them up. We talked for about half an hour. My grandchildren came up from Queenstown and I took them out to the Christmas lights. I talked to him and invited him out for a coffee. I wasn’t sure where […]