journeys with my mother’’s ashes: healing grief through travel

Hélène Jermolajew is a published poet some of the poems in her collection titled Laughter, Tears and Coffee appear in this memoir. After the death of her mother and twelve months of travel she felt a strong pull to share her experience of grief and healing. This story documents her journey. Her favourite reading material is real stories, memoirs, biographies and self-help books amongst many others although an odd novel does find its way into her hands. She loves languages and reads for both the information in a book and the way language is used to tell a story. Her own style is conversational, she prefers to tell a casual story over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. She is the mother of two wonderful sons, grandmother to three beautiful grandchildren and has the two most incredible daughters-in-law anyone could ask for.