Lizzie Pickering

Lizzie is a Grief Educator, Author and Film Producer

She offers Grief Guidance to organisations and 1:1 support for individuals, educating people about grief and helping them back to life and work following major losses, from bereavement to diagnosis, divorce and workplace change. Her clients are both UK-based and global, from hospitals and schools to advertising agencies, law firms and investment banks. Since the death of her eldest son Harry 25 years ago (and then working at the children’s hospice where he died for 12 years), Lizzie has become passionate about changing the landscape for people who have to face life and work when they are living with grief. Her firm belief is that, if grief is faced and worked through gradually with good support, there is a rich seam of energy to be found from not only surviving it but living well.

Creative Work: 

Lizzie co-produced the feature film Let Me Go (directed by Polly Steele and starring Juliet Stevenson),  and Optioned and Exec-Produced (also with Polly Steele) Four Letters of Love  starring Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne and Pierce Brosnan and released in UK cinemas in July 2025.

For ten years Lizzie co-produced the comedy show Childish Things at the 1800 seat New Theatre, Oxford hosting an array of top UK comedians including Rob Brydon, Michael McIntyre, Jimmy Carr, James Corden, Jack Whitehall, Jo Brand, Ruth Jones and many more.

‘In the 25 years I have listened to the voices of people who live with grief, I have realised that no matter their ethnicity, culture, faith, community, social situation, metabolism, gender, neuro-diversity – everyone I speak to wants to bring up the same topics relating to how they navigate their grief. And yet these issues are a complete surprise to them. They are not prepared. Somehow particularly in the UK and America we are have sanitised death and grief so much that the bereaved feel unseen, unheard and misunderstood.

Yet we will all go through bereavement during our lives, some very early on and some later. One thing we know: it is unavoidable’.

Lizzie’s book, When Grief Equals Love, was published in May 2023 and is available from bookshops, Amazon and Audible.

Image credit: Bee Wilde