grief Archives - Maggie Semple

Jul

#IHadAMiscarriage

26th July 2017Sophie MaguireLifestyle

One in six women who fall pregnant will suffer a miscarriage up to 24 weeks and one in 100 will endure traumatic recurrent infant loss. Yet despite the frequency, miscarriage is still very much a taboo subject. Shrouded in silence and even shame; women are left alone with the emptiness, unable to feel they can voice...

Sep

The Killing Fields

1st September 2015Sophie MaguireTravel

Just 40 short years ago communist leader Pol Pot and his Khmer Rogue army were inflicting their reign of terror and genocide on the people of Cambodia. In just under four years they would wipe out an estimated 1.7 million people, a staggering 21 percent of Cambodia’s population. In the chronicle of 20th century horrors,...

Jan

Remembering You

23rd January 2015Talia MaguireLifestyle

“We think that we are invincible because we are.” Of all the words I heard around the time of my grandmother’s passing six years ago, these were the only ones that eased my pain. At 15 years old the loss of someone I loved so dearly was unbearable; innocent, immature and above all unprepared I...

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The Killing Fields

Remembering You