: About Me

Leila Summers lives in Durban, South Africa with her two daughters and entourage of pets. Leila enjoys reading and writing and has a passion for research. She has boundless energy and enthusiasm for learning new things and her variety of interests include parenting, homeschooling, children, pets, holistic living, the environment, spirituality death, grief and loss. Leila has just finished her first book.

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the world around me, experience, motherhood.

Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss How you deal with death

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When Someone You Love is Dying Anticipatory Grief Anticipating the possibility of a loss of someone you love is a terrifying and traumatic time. They may have a life threatening or terminal illness that you don't know whether they will recover from or not. You are torn in two: one side is full of hope and trust that they will survive, the other is full of fear and dread that they may not. Anticipatory grief is a terrible place of limbo between knowing and not knowing. It is a time of dealing with loss of life, moving slowly without actually knowing if there will be a loss. For me, it was a...

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