My story Finding a place to heal

We all have moments that change us forever, events that can spin the course of our lives in an unimaginable direction and alter everything. For my family, that happened when my husband died suddenly in 2014. One moment I was married to a man I loved, the next I was a single parent making decisions for myself and my children while navigating our grief.

As soon as the deep brain fog that comes with loss had eased a little, I took the difficult decision to leave Sydney, the city I had called home for over a decade, and return to England. In November 2016, we packed up our house and our lives and left Australia. We exchanged summer clothes for winter woollens