{"id":699697,"date":"2026-07-19T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:00:09","slug":"grieftok-woman-says-sharing-loss-of-fiance-online-gives-her-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699697\/","title":{"rendered":"GriefTok: Woman says sharing loss of fianc\u00e9 online &#8216;gives her purpose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mulcahy, who has now lives close to Melbourne in Australia, said she had been away in London over the weekend that Joseph went missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I left the house the day before, kissed him goodbye, and then I never saw him again,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having only recently moved to Bristol, thousands of miles from family and friends on the other side of the world, she described feeling &#8220;extremely alone&#8221; coming to terms with his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I found the circumstances of Joseph&#8217;s death quite challenging because I was alone overseas, so I didn&#8217;t really have anybody,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt like I really struggled to connect to my grief for a long time, because I don&#8217;t think I ever really believed he was actually gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mulcahy began posting videos on TikTok in 2023, sharing special things she had done to keep Joseph&#8217;s memory alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her videos on things not to say to a person who is grieving and recommendations of books to read on grief and loss were viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the beginning of 2026, Mulcahy documented returning to Bristol to confront her grief &#8220;head on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bristol for me was sort of like a final step,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was almost like me allowing myself to have this final sort of bow on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the response from followers was overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I got a lot of messages and a lot of comments and stuff afterwards of people saying I actually want to do this now. I want to go stand in that spot,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to go back to where my person died.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mulcahy, who has now lives close to Melbourne in Australia, said she had been away in London over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}