Rev Canon Yvonne Richmond Tulloch
Rev Canon Yvonne Tulloch is founder and CEO of the charity AtaLoss, providing the UK’s bereavement signposting website and equipping churches in bereavement support.
How Christians are leading the way in providing bereavement support
30 November 2023Bereavement is one of the most stressful times of life, affecting everyone sooner or later and potentially impacting every part of someone’s life. Loss needs to be processed, and grief is a journey of adjusting to a new existence, which takes time, and understanding and support is needed in many ways. At first, most of us are shocked or emotionally numb; we run on adrenaline and we’re in survival mode. At the funeral others can think we’re doing well, and we can too. But it’s after, when the…
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Light in the darkness this Christmas
20 December 2021At the best of times Christmas is difficult for people who have been bereaved. It brings together family and friends in happy occasions, where the absence of those who used to join us is sorely felt. It’s said that grief is the price we pay for love and it’s also true that the happier the memories, the harder it is to face the occasion when a person is gone. For many people bereaved during the pandemic, they haven’t yet faced this Christmas pain. Furthermore, the other family gatherings that…
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Supporting the country's bereaved
28 April 2021When we combine the coronavirus deaths with the usual deaths per annum and additional deaths from reduced healthcare, our country is now, alarmingly, experiencing a ‘tsunami of grief’, with 1:4 people having lost loved ones since the start of the pandemic, all in traumatic circumstances. At the best of times bereavement can be devastating: it presents a host of challenges that affect every area of life, often causing able people to become dysfunctional and to lose hope. For anyone bereaved…
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