This week, I sat down with Laura Craine, the founder of With Love and Dreams, a beautiful creative business that helps people honour their loved ones through memorial jewellery and flower preservation. Laura is a resin artist who works with cremated remains, funeral flowers, and other deeply personal items to create meaningful keepsakes for those who are grieving.Laura also shares her own story of loss, having experienced the death of 3 of her grandparents within six months. She speaks especially about the bond she shared with her granddad, Harry, and how his passing shaped her understanding of grief and deepened her empathy for the people she now supports through her work.It’s a conversation about memory, legacy, and the creative ways we carry love forward.This episode is kindly brought to you by GK Media.For more information on their legacy video and podcast service please visit them here https://www.gkmedia.ie/legacyFor more information on Grief Retreats visit www.griefireland.comYou can find Laura @with love and dreams
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Family Flowers Only with Orla Clancy
This week, I sit down with Orla Clancy, who shares the story of losing both of her parents, her mum Christina and her dad Noel. Orla was just 13 when her mother died suddenly, a loss that shaped her teenage years. In the years that followed, her relationship with her dad grew incredibly strong as he raised her through life’s hardest and most formative moments.Then, at just 29, Orla faced another devastating loss when her dad became unwell and passed away from cancer.This is a story of grief, love, and the deep bond between a daughter and her parents especially the connection that forms when a parent becomes your whole world.For more information about Grief Retreats visit www.griefireland.comFor more information on recording your own personal podcast as a keepsake for family friends etc contact GK MEDIA on Instagram or herehttps://www.gkmedia.ie/legacy
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Family Flowers Only with Sequana O'Brien
This week, I sit down with Sequana O’Brien, a young woman who has lived through an extraordinary amount of loss and hardship in just a few short years. In 2022, her mother passed away from stage 4 cancer. Just two weeks later, her sister entered a devastating psychosis and, after a long and painful struggle, also passed away six months to the day after their mum. At the same time, Sequana was trying to care for her unwell father, all while studying for her Leaving Cert.It’s a story of unimaginable grief, but also one of strength, love, and quiet resilience. Sequana shares it all with such honesty and grace.You can find Sequana @Sequana_make upThis episode is kindly brought to you by GK Media.For more information on their legacy video and podcast service please visit them here https://www.gkmedia.ie/legacyFor more information on Grief Retreats visit www.griefireland.com
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Family Flowers Only with Kathie Stritch
So this week it was my turn!!!!! Im allergic haha.Being the host of this podcast, and creating the whole Grief Ireland space I thought it was time to sit down and share my own story for those who perhaps wouldn't have heard it before. I do know some of you will have but there are so many new people coming across this page and podcast daily that I felt it was needed to put context on who I am and how I came to be in this position, helping to support and give space to those who grieve and have lost.I have no problem ever saying a few words but this did feel intimidating and I am nervous putting this out there but Im just going to do it and move forward then and not care too much about the response. It will reach and help those it is meant to.A continued thank you to you all for following along and supporting the podcast. Don't forget to do all the usual things to support and help it to continue to grow.For more information about the grief workshop and grief retreats please check out www.griefireland.comThis season has been brought to you by LOVE CHERISH https://www.lovecherish.com/Thank you Maeve and team for your support and belief Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@familyflowersonlyInstagram https://www.instagram.com/griefireland/?hl=en
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Family Flowers Only with Kirsty Forde
This week, I sit down with Kirsty Forde, who shares the heartbreaking story of losing her partner, Glenn Fullam. Kirsty and Glenn were young, so in love, and raising their little boy Cruz when Glenn was suddenly diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, a rare and fast-moving illness that doctors couldn’t even name.What followed was a devastating and rapid decline, and Kirsty was left facing the unimaginable, life without the person she thought she'd spend forever with.This is a story of love, loss, and strength, and I know so many of you will connect deeply with Kirsty's honesty, heartbreak, and quiet resilience.You can find Kirsty on TikTok and Instagram @KirstyFordeFor tickets and more information about our Grief Workshop in Dublin Oct 19th please visit www.griefireland.comFollow us on TikTok @familyflowersonlyhttps://www.tiktok.com/@familyflowersonly?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
During the pandemic I created a community on Instagram called Grief Ireland. It was following the death of my sister Elaine and her husband Pa. I found Grief to be still a taboo subject, unspoken, and a topic that not many wanted to discuss. Unless of course those who were in "the club no-one wants to be in". But to find those people was difficult. So I went on a mission to open the conversation, to comfort those who mourn, to educate those who don't, to hold space for others to talk about their Grief, Love and Loss and to remember our loved ones and ensure that they would never be forgotten.
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