Death of a Parent

Kim – Checking in is very important

Kim explains why it is so important to check in and keep in touch with people who have lost

Karyn and Aidan – The what if game and guilt

Karyn and Aidan explain how they have dealt with guilt

Logan – Songwriting and grief

Logan – Songwriting and grief

Logan explains how a song about his father helped

Sam – My story

Sam tells his story and losing his father, uncle and cousin in a short period of time

Lyss – Seasonal Reminders

Lyss seasonal reminders and her mother dying at New Years

Karyn and Aidan – Our story

Karyn and Aidan – Karyn tells the story leading up to John’s death during the pandemic

Antoinetta – Things that are hard about school

Antoinetta shares about the challenges she faced when returning to school after her father died

Sam – Prostate Cancer

Sam talks about prostate cancer and losing his father and uncle to it

Keith – “Grief at any age”

Keith discusses grief and age.

Matt – Telling my young son

Matt describes the death of his birth mother to his young son.

Finding Joy During the Holidays After Loss When Everything Feels Awful: A message of hope.

My mother died in the middle of the night on January 1, four days before I turned sixteen. I don’t remember much about Christmas the couple weeks before she died, just that we spent a lot of that season in the ICU of the hospital where my mother had birthed my brother and I. For…

Hope – Waves of grief

Hope talks about the loss of her father and how grief comes in waves and how a therapist helped her understand that she had pushed her emotions down