This week marks National Grief Awareness Week and so today's guest is Lawyer and Co-founder of South Asian Sisters Speak, Shirin Shah.

Shirin joins Callsuma in the room to talk about her dad who died earlier this year in February of a rare neurological disease and what it looks like to grieve in a lockdown. 

She reflects openly about what it was like caring for her father in hospital whilst trying to manage her self care and that grieving the same loss also means family members do not grieve in the same way and might process things differently to one another. 

We both discuss compassionate leave and conclude this often comes down to how empathetic your manager is.  If you have not signed the Sue Ryder campaign or Jack's Law campaign see the links below to add your name to the petition:

https://actions.sueryder.org/a/principle

https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-theresa-may-mp-legislate-bereavement-leave-for-the-death-of-a-loved-one

We close today's episode on what the future might look like for Shirin, the realisation that she may never be a carefree 20 something person ever again. 

As always thank you for listening.

Your host

Callsuma Ali