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You and Yours: Call You and Yours: What Helped You Cope With Bereavement?

Call You and Yours: What Helped You Cope With Bereavement?

28/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Call You and Yours: What Helped You Cope With Bereavement?

What helped you cope with bereavement? Call during the programme 03700 100 444.

Shari Vahl asks: what helped you cope with bereavement?

In a special BBC Programme Rio Ferdinand will speak about the death of his wife and how it affected his children. 

The former England football captain lost his wife Rebecca to breast cancer in 2015, when she was just 34. The couple's three children are now aged ten, eight and five. He says he never realised how much his wife did for their children until she had gone. The former Manchester United star says getting used to life as a single parent has been a steep learning curve: things such as getting the kids ready for school and doing his daughter's hair. 

What helped you to cope with loss and bereavement? How do you begin to come to terms with grief? Email anytime youandyours@bbc.co.uk. Please leave a phone number so we can call you back.

('Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad' - will be broadcast Tuesday 28th March at 9pm on BBC1.)

If you've lost someone and would like some support - you can call the bereavement charity CRUSE, they have a freephone helpline number: 0808 808 1677 or check out their website cruse.org.uk.

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