Death of a Parent

Jeff – “Talking About Grief”

Jeff outlines the story of losing his mother to cancer and the difficulty he experienced when he struggled to acknowledge his grief after her death.

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

Zoreena talks about her father’s decline in a nursing home during COVID

Kim – Facebook and connecting

Kim – discussses our need to connect and how Facebook was useful after her Mum’s death

Logan – My story

Logan talks about the death of his father and bone cancer and how writing music helped

Lyss – Losing My Mother

Lyss discusses losing her mother and how her first thought was that her mother would never meet her kids Now being a mother herself brings back many memories of her.

Lyss – Therapy and the right fit

Lyss talks about therapy and finding the right fit

Kim – It’s different during a pandemic

Kim talks about how the pandemic influenced how they were able to deal with her Mum’s death

Grief & Ice Cream

When my wife of 18 years died in 2016, I became a single father missing the love of my life, and also had to learn how to raise two girls (13-17 at the time) on my own. I remember a conversation I had with my mother-in-law and oldest daughter that began as reminiscing over a person who became a lost love to all of us. We all talked about different aspects of my wife but shortly, it transformed into a “who meant more to her” fest.

Clare – “Talking About Grief”

Clare talks about her experiences with grief. Clare continues to grieve the death of her father.

Katie – Coping strategies

Katie explains her coping strategies

Hope – Different lenses

Hope shares about the differences in experiences between losing her father and her Mom losing a spouse

Karyn and Aidan – Humour

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they use humour as a connection and a coping tool