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A Comprehensive Guide to Personalised Remembrance Gifts

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A Comprehensive Guide to Personalised Remembrance Gifts
As we approach the four-year mark of what was probably one of the most difficult years for our time, I’ve been thinking about all the people that died due to coronavirus and how we can remember them. Finding the right words or gestures to comfort someone when it’s the anniversary or birthday of losing a loved one, is difficult. That's why I've curated a comprehensive guide to remembrance gifts and memorial gifts that can offer support throughout the year. 

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Navigating Grief and Finding Comfort: A Personal Journey

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Navigating Grief and Finding Comfort: A Personal Journey
In this heartfelt blog post, I reflect on the past two years, I open up about the challenges I faced during the first year of my grief and the coping mechanisms that helped me along the way, from counseling sessions to meditation and exercise and how some of the gifts at The Flower and Gift Yard can offer some comfort to your friends and family. 

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Sympathy gifts for someone dealing with grief

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Sympathy gifts for someone dealing with grief
In my latest blog, I’ve suggested a few of our most popular sympathy gifts and a few things that helped me during my own grief journey.

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Healing From Within – The Power of Reading

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Healing From Within – The Power of Reading

Hearing someone you love telling you that they have incurable cancer... When my sister Seetal was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, I went through a crazy mix of emotions including shock, sadness and even denial (surely, they got the results wrong). She told me over the phone and I started shaking, followed by crying, lot's of crying. I really struggled to come to terms with the fact that my sister, a young and healthy woman (she was 36 when she was diagnosed) was about to undergo treatment for stage 4 cancer. Soon enough, Google became my trusted advisor and I’d spend most...

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