Now, I AM a total novice when it comes to podcasting, and I can’t lie, some of the technical issues I’ve encountered have left me ready to throw the towel in and give up, because I wanted to make something really good, not just passable. And that’s despite the wonderful advice and coaching from Vic at MIC Media! What I’ve created is far from perfect, and I hope that you will forgive these imperfections in this first series and focus on the wonderful guests and the content and meaning of their words instead. I have high hopes that by series two I’ll have grown in confidence and skill and the podcasts quality will be much better overall.

I couldn’t do this alone; it takes lots of time and energy, and those of us involved are all volunteers. I am immensely grateful to Tracy, George’s mum, for her website support, early encouragement, and editorial feedback. Also, huge thanks to Lauren for being so generous with her time and bringing all her marketing expertise and drive to this project. Between us all we’ll be keeping the website and social media channels up to date with episodes, links to services, contacts for support groups and anything else we think listeners might be interested in.

As a quick aside, Tracy has recently produced a fantastic fundraising cookbook that celebrates food and love and raises money for The Compassionate Friends. It’s called Cooked With Love, and it has loads of recipes inspired by our fabulous children.

To find out more about my bereavement story, you can visit my blog, or have a look at my recently published memoir, Midowed: a mother’s grief.

Lastly, if you’ve landed here because you are looking for support right now, click here for a few organisations that might be able to help.