Life Reimagined
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I made myself a promise very early on that I was going to walk straight through the centre of my grief. No shortcuts and definitely no avoidance. I needed to do what I had not been able to with Dad. I wanted to feel it all.When Jill was four, her father died. He went to play his weekly game of five-a-side football, had a heart attack and never came home. In 2017, in cruelly similar circumstances, Jill’s partner Matt went to a gym class, suffered a cardiac arrest and never came home.These two tragic events frame Jill’s story in Life Reimagined as she explores how she dealt with profound grief as a child and teenager and then to her later in life as a partner and mother. When Matt died, Jill committed to processing her grief in ways she hadn’t attempted before: she had to rebuild her father, recreate that grief and lose him all over again. She explored the physiology of grief, attended grief retreats, read every book out there and underwent extensive therapy.But Jill knows that not everyone has the time, money or inclination to do the same, so, above all, A Life Reimagined is Jill's space to share what she has discovered and learnt – both about herself and about how we view grief as a society – in the hope that she can help readers feel like they can start to put one foot in front of the other. From trauma can come massive growth and, in this intimate and deeply personal book, Jill talks to you like a best friend, with her characteristic warmth, empathy and compassion, guiding you to find your own way through grief and start to feel hopeful about life again.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jill Halfpenny
EAN: 9781035037582
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss
WIDTH: 153 cm
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United Kingdom, Great Britain, London, Greater London, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Individual actors and performers, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Jill Halfpenny is one of the most recognised and beloved faces on British television, having burst onto the scene in 1989 as Nicola Dobson in Byker Grove. Since then, she has gone on to star in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Waterloo Road, Babylon, Three Girls, The Drowning and, most recently, The Holiday, which received the highest viewing figures among all competitors of its time slot.Jill also won the second series of Strictly Come Dancing and was crowned 'Champion of Champions' in 2004. She is currently filming for the seven-part series about Peter Sutcliffe, The Long Shadow, directed by Lewis Arnold of Broadchurch fame.Jill lives in Newcastle with her son.
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I made myself a promise very early on that I was going to walk straight through the centre of my grief. No shortcuts and definitely no avoidance. I needed to do what I had not been able to with Dad. I wanted to feel it all.When Jill was four, her father died. He went to play his weekly game of five-a-side football, had a heart attack and never came home. In 2017, in cruelly similar circumstances, Jill’s partner Matt went to a gym class, suffered a cardiac arrest and never came home.These two tragic events frame Jill’s story in Life Reimagined as she explores how she dealt with profound grief as a child and teenager and then to her later in life as a partner and mother. When Matt died, Jill committed to processing her grief in ways she hadn’t attempted before: she had to rebuild her father, recreate that grief and lose him all over again. She explored the physiology of grief, attended grief retreats, read every book out there and underwent extensive therapy.But Jill knows that not everyone has the time, money or inclination to do the same, so, above all, A Life Reimagined is Jill's space to share what she has discovered and learnt – both about herself and about how we view grief as a society – in the hope that she can help readers feel like they can start to put one foot in front of the other. From trauma can come massive growth and, in this intimate and deeply personal book, Jill talks to you like a best friend, with her characteristic warmth, empathy and compassion, guiding you to find your own way through grief and start to feel hopeful about life again.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jill Halfpenny
EAN: 9781035037582
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss
WIDTH: 153 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
United Kingdom, Great Britain, London, Greater London, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Individual actors and performers, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Jill Halfpenny is one of the most recognised and beloved faces on British television, having burst onto the scene in 1989 as Nicola Dobson in Byker Grove. Since then, she has gone on to star in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Waterloo Road, Babylon, Three Girls, The Drowning and, most recently, The Holiday, which received the highest viewing figures among all competitors of its time slot.Jill also won the second series of Strictly Come Dancing and was crowned 'Champion of Champions' in 2004. She is currently filming for the seven-part series about Peter Sutcliffe, The Long Shadow, directed by Lewis Arnold of Broadchurch fame.Jill lives in Newcastle with her son.
