Connie McLaughlin introduces Jane Harris and Julia Samuel MBE talking about the Good Grief Festival of Love and Loss (30th October to 1st November)
BBC Radio Scotland 25th October 2020
“Hope starts where certainty ends …” Julia Samuel
“We asked members of the Thrive community to share a documentary they recently watched that opened their minds to a new perspective, idea, or passion …. A Love that Never Dies … “is neither a depressing film nor a sentimental one…. the smorgasbord of grief laid out here, in all its variety — wit and humour, shame and defiance — is a testament to life.”
“The death of a child is never an easy subject to broach. No matter how long you’ve known the parents it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about their grief. Fear of getting it wrong can mean some people avoid the conversation altogether.” Jimmy and Jane offer five things they have learnt since their son Joshua died in 2011
‘The grief following the death of your child lasts a lifetime’
SYLVIA THOMPSON
“Lean into your grief in whatever way works best for you was the strong message from the documentary, A Love That Never Dies, shown by the Irish Hospice Foundation and the Good Grief Project in Dublin this month…
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Shapes of Grief
LIZ GLEESON
Shapes of Grief is produced by Liz Gleeson, an Irish grief therapist. Liz hosts conversations with ordinary people about their experience of loss and grief in their lives. Through the recounting of our grief stories, healing can begin to happen, both for the teller and the listener.
Enduring Love: How parents survive the death of a child
KATHY DONAGHY
“There shouldn’t be a time frame around healing. You don’t ‘get over it’. The more you love, the more you hurt. You can’t get around sadness – you have to go through it. We’re saying let’s be brave and strong and let’s allow people to be open. Let’s not apply rules”.
Holding the Dead in our Hearts and Lives
JIMMY EDMONDS AND JANE HARRIS
Therapy Today June 2018
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‘In grief we discover, often surprisingly, that the people we attach to, the people we love most deeply, have affected us in ways that we don’t always realise’
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Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds
talk to Kat Orman about
A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES
LISTEN HERE ….
A Love That Never Dies: a movie about grief and hope
TOM KIHL
Gasholder (London Belongs to Me network)
8th May 2018
Directors
Jimmy Edmonds and Jane Harris
talk about
A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin
WATCH HERE ….
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The last time I saw Josh Edmonds, was outside Vue Cinema in Stroud, it was cold and we were going to different films so we chatted in the queue. On March 16th at 7.30pm, Josh will be back at Vue Cinema, only this time in spirit, because Josh died in a road accident in Vietnam six years ago. He was twenty two. He left behind his parents, a brother and sister and many, many friends. A Love That Never Dies is a film inspired by Josh’s life, his death and the trauma of the loss of a child.
The Good Grief Project is a newly formed bereavement charity dedicated to an understanding grief as an active and creative process – we discover how it came about.
As a filmmaker and a psychological therapist, Jimmy Edmonds and Jane Harris explore both artistic and therapeutic responses to the grief they now experience. In this article Jane and Jimmy introduce just some of the projects they have been involved with since Josh’s death.
In early 2011, Jimmy Edmonds’ son was killed in a road accident while traveling in SE Asia. From personal tragedy he has created a moving and insightful book that reflects the way we use photographs in the process of mourning. It is also an exploration of the nature of photography itself. The “chaos of meaning” that Edmonds discovers lying at the heart of photography, mirrors almost exactly his own confusion surrounding the death of his son. Rarely have photography and poetry come together with such force.