Grief Disco

05/08/2026

Applications are now open for our next Run Your Own Grief Disco training sessions. ✨🪩

When Leah and I first had the idea for Grief Disco, we never imagined where it would lead.

Today, people are taking Grief Disco into hospices, hospitals, charities, community groups, assisted living facilities and local communities. Every host brings their own personality, music and heart to the experience, while staying true to the values that make Grief Disco what it is.

If you’ve ever thought…

💛 “My community needs this.”
💛 “I’d love to support bereaved people in a different way.”
💛 “Music and movement have helped me, and I’d love to share that with others.”

…then this training might be for you.

You don’t need to be a dancer.
You don’t need to be a therapist.
You simply need compassion, curiosity and a willingness to create a safe space where people can remember, connect and experience moments of joy alongside grief.

Our next online training dates are:

🪩 23 September
🪩 21 October
🪩 25 November

All sessions are held online at 7.00pm (UK time).

We’ve been blown away by the people joining us bereavement workers, hospice staff, counsellors, psychologists, celebrants, community leaders, DJs and people who simply want to make a difference where they live.

Every new host helps us reach another community.

If this is speaking to you, we’d love to welcome you.

Applications are now open. ❤️

14/07/2026

Our last Run Your Own Grief Disco course until the autumn is almost here. 💛

We have some incredible people joining us.

People from the world of dance, hospitals, charities and community organisations across the UK and the USA. Different backgrounds. Different professions. One shared belief.

Grief needs to be done differently.

We don’t have to carry it on our own.

Music and movement can unlock something powerful within us. They help us express what words often can’t, reconnect with ourselves and each other, and remind us that joy and grief can exist side by side.

If you’ve been thinking about bringing Grief Disco to your community, workplace or organisation, this is your last opportunity until the autumn.

Pop over to the website and apply. We’d love to welcome you.

We dance to remember, not to forget. 💛

30/06/2026

What if your community had somewhere to put their grief?

Not a support group. Not a therapy session. A Grief Disco, music, movement,
and space to feel it all without having to explain yourself.

The next Run Your Own Grief Disco training is 16th July and I'd love to have you on it.

This will be our last one for a while as we want to support all the hosts we have already trained.

You don't need to be a grief expert. You just need to care about your community and be willing to hold space. I'll teach you the rest.

DM me if you want to chat about whether it's right for you. 🪩

29/06/2026

Just think how many versions of you there have been.

Baby you.

Teenage you.

The you reading this now.

We are beings built for change.

Sometimes we choose it.

Sometimes it chooses us.

When we lose someone.

When we become parents.

When our identity shifts.

When life asks us to become someone new.

I was genuinely honoured to be invited by Annie Macmanus to contribute to her
Changes Substack, where she asks people from all walks of life about their relationship with change.

Answering her questions made me stop and reflect on my own journey. How grief has changed me.

How motherhood has changed me. And how singing, dancing and connection continue to bring me back to myself.

A huge thank you to Annie for the invitation. It was a real privilege to be part of it.

If you'd like to have a read, the link is in the comments.

I'd love to know... what's the biggest change that's shaped who you are?

22/06/2026

A few months after Osian died, I had a strong desire to dance. I ignored the voice in my head telling me that grieving parents don't go clubbing in Ibiza and went with my partner Dave, Osian's dad.

We went to see Groove Armada at Pacha. At first, I thought it had been a terrible idea. Then something shifted. As I got into it, I felt my grieving body come back to life. I felt less numb, less alone and more connected to myself and the people around me.

That night, I realised dancing was going to help me carry my grief.

When I got home, my friend Leah and I started going dancing together to house nights in Cardiff. Somewhere along the way, one of us had the idea for Grief Disco.
We put the first event on sale summer 2024 expecting friends and family to come along. The moment we knew it might actually be a good idea was when we started seeing names we didn't recognise buying tickets.

We had no idea if it would work. Would people dance? Would they think we were making light of grief? The response was incredible.

That first event felt like a party, a safe space and a room full of love. There were tears and laughter, dancing and remembering. People honoured the people they missed, connected with strangers who understood, and lost themselves in some brilliant music for a few hours.

It was everything we had hoped for and more.

After that first event, we knew we had created something special.

01/06/2026

"I can't sing."

I've heard this so many times over the years.
And every single time the person who said it, sang.

"I'm tone deaf."

Heard that one too! 😄

But here's the thing if you were truly tone deaf, you couldn't tell the difference between someone from Scotland and someone from London. Real tone deafness is extraordinarily rare.

What most people actually mean is: someone once made them feel bad for singing. And they never forgot it.

Over the last hundred years in the UK, singing has shifted from something communal, healing and deeply human — into something individual and performative. We rate ourselves before we even open our mouths.
We sing less at funerals. Less in schools. Less together in community.

And we are all the poorer for it.

I have spent my career flying the flag for singing as a wellbeing practice. And the research backs it up — singing reduces stress, supports emotional wellbeing and increases feelings of connection and belonging.
But honestly? Long before the research, human beings sang together to move through loss. To grieve. To heal. To feel less alone.
That's exactly what Soul Sessions is for.

Everyone sings with their microphone off — so no one can hear you.
You are completely held in the sound without being exposed by it. No solos. No performance. No right or wrong way.

Just you, in your own space, breathing and singing alongside others who understand something about loss.
You don't have to be a singer.

You just have to be human.

First session is Tuesday 10th June at 7pm — online, just one hour, and just £20 as a founding member.

(Future sessions will be £25 — so this is the moment to jump in!)

Soul Sessions are gentle online singing experiences for people navigating grief, loss or emotional overwhelm. Through breathing, beautiful songs, gentle movement and voice, we create space for connection, release and hope. No solos. No pressure. No singing experience needed.

26/05/2026

Grief can make you go quiet in ways you never expected.

I’m a very extroverted person and yet in the first year after losing my son Osian, I was silent most days. Completely flat. Like parts of me had disappeared.
So many grieving people tell me the same thing.

Not just sadness… but disconnection.

From joy.

From confidence.

From energy.

From themselves.

Life becomes about surviving. Getting through the day. Holding it together.

That’s one of the reasons we hand out physical permission slips for joy at our Grief Discos. Because sometimes people need reminding that joy is still allowed to exist alongside grief.

And sometimes talking isn’t the thing that helps most.

Sometimes the body needs something else.

Breathing deeper.

Movement.
Music.
Singing.

Over the last two years through Grief Disco now being used in hospices, community spaces and grief settings across the UK, and starting to spread further we’ve seen how music and shared experiences can help people feel lighter, more connected and less alone.

There’s research around singing and grief too. Singing can reduce stress, support emotional wellbeing and increase feelings of connection and belonging.
But honestly, beyond the research, there’s just something incredibly powerful about being in a space where you don’t have to explain yourself.
You can arrive exactly as you are.

That’s why I’m creating Soul Sessions.

A gentle online singing space for grieving hearts.

No pressure.

No solos.

No need to be “good” at singing.

Just an hour to breathe, sing, feel and reconnect with yourself alongside others who understand something about loss too.

The first session is 10th June at 7pm if your heart needs it.

Photo - This is one of my favourite pictures of me singing on stage. It was a funk/soul band I used to front. Fun times!

23/05/2026

The magic of Pacha 🍒

18/05/2026

Grief is messy, and it can make you do unexpected things. For me, one of those things was dancing to house music.

It was like my grieving body was calling me to move. To feel. To let something out that words couldn’t reach.

I listened. I danced. And because of that night, Grief Disco was born.

Did it fix my grief? No. Grief isn’t something to fix — it’s something we feel, carry, and learn to live alongside. But for a moment, I felt lighter. I felt connected. I felt alive again.

That’s what Grief Disco is about. Permission for joy. Healing. Connection. Holding both the sadness and the light at the same time.

06/05/2026

Last call for Run Your Own Grief Disco 🪩

Our next course is tomorrow (online) at 10am UK time.

If you’ve been feeling the pull to create something meaningful…

To hold space for grief in a different way…

To bring connection, music, and even moments of joy into your community…

This is your moment 💛

I’ll guide you through everything you need to start your own Grief Disco.

📩 DM or message

Let’s keep growing the disco ball ✨