Nurturing What Remains

🌿 Nurturing What Remains

By Allison Ockenden
Director of Today, Tomorrow and Always
From the Heart Podcast – Talking Truths, Taboos and Triumphs

Grief is just love with nowhere to go—but we give it a place.

Nurturing isn’t always rocking a baby to sleep or tending to a thriving garden.
Sometimes, nurturing means holding space for grief.
It’s sitting with memories that ache and still choosing to honour the love that lingers.

At Today, Tomorrow & Always, we believe nurturing takes many forms—especially as we grow older and find ourselves tending to invisible wounds.
It’s in the quiet rituals:

• Lighting a candle

• Holding a keepsake close

• Whispering their name into the silence

💫 Preserving the Sacred

For many women, nurturing becomes less about giving to others and more about preserving the sacred.

• The story behind a piece of jewellery

• The touch of a fingerprint in gold

• A strand of hair, a droplet of milk, a photograph engraved in wood

It’s about making sure the essence of someone or something loved isn’t forgotten.

You can’t go back— but you can hold on,
with both hands and your whole heart.

✨ Turning Moments into Heirlooms

As we move through the seasons of life, we carry so many stories.
Loss. Love. Hope.

And through it all, nurturing becomes the act of:

• Remembering with tenderness

• Choosing to keep love alive—in whatever way feels right to you

You don’t have to move on.
Just move with.
You don’t have to forget.
Just find a way to hold.

That’s what we help women do.
Today. Tomorrow. Always.

Some of the most powerful love stories are whispered through keepsakes.

By Allison Ockenden
Director of Today, Tomorrow and Always
Host of From the Heart Podcast – Talking Truths, Taboos and Triumphs