Death of a Parent

Sam – My story

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

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…

Reflections on Mother’s Day

Mother’s day is a holiday where we show appreciation and care for the maternal roles in our lives. However, this holiday can feel very overwhelming for those of us who are grieving the death of a mother figure, a mother grieving their child, or those of us grieving the loss of not being able to become mothers ourselves.

Adam – Story 1

Adam shares about losing his Mom and the many wonderful things he remembers

Zoreena – My Story

Zoreena talks about COVID and the loss of her father and a cousin

Adam – Story 2

Adam discusses his busy life and how he has coped after losing his mother

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

Zoreena – Support systems

Zoreena explains the importance of support systems

Sam – Prostate Cancer

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

Karyn and Aidan – Coping with the COVID restrictions

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they dealt with not being able to visit John in hospital

Matt – Telling my young son

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

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