{"id":131923,"date":"2024-10-14T18:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131923"},"modified":"2024-10-14T18:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:42:26","slug":"church-times-interview-roger-greene-deputy-ceo-ataloss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131923","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Interview: Roger Greene, deputy CEO, AtaLoss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>AtaLoss was founded in 2016 by Canon Yvonne Tulloch.<\/strong>&nbsp;When she was suddenly widowed, she realised how little she and those around her knew about bereavement, its difficulties and needs, and how hard it was to find understanding support. Yvonne had been trained in funeral ministry, but grief tends to be felt most in the months following the funeral.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As a society, we\u2019ve not been good at talking about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/deathdying\">death<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong>We\u2019re loss-averse and death-denying. The two world wars and medical and economic advances are the major causes of our death denial. Death\u2019s an inconvenient truth, and we avoid talking about it because it\u2019s too painful. In a culture where we worship at the altar of success, losing people feels like failure.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We don\u2019t even realise that we need to deal with grief,<\/strong>&nbsp;though it affects our lives so deeply.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We\u2019re beginning to realise that change is needed, though,\u00a0<\/strong>and there\u2019s talk in the media about death, but this tends to be about preparing for death, not grief. We need to understand bereavement better \u2014 its profound impact on our physical and mental health \u2014 to help those left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/11-october\/features\/interviews\/interview-roger-greene-deputy-ceo-ataloss\">Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Click below to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChurchTimes<\/a> interview with Roger Greene, Deputy CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtaLosscharity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AtaLosscharity<\/a> as he chats about his role,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebereavementj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thebereavementj<\/a>, and his book Dancing When the Lights Go Out.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ynQ5bjVt3\">https:\/\/t.co\/0ynQ5bjVt3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Loss and HOPE (@LossandHOPE1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LossandHOPE1\/status\/1844693337770483740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AtaLoss was founded in 2016 by Canon Yvonne Tulloch.&nbsp;When she was suddenly widowed, she realised how little she and those around her knew about bereavement, its difficulties and needs, and how hard it was to find understanding support. 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