Death of a Parent

Zoreena – COVID and isolation

March 31, 2022

Zoreena discusses COVID isolation and the loss of time to spend with her Dad and her cousing

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Hope – Benefits of child-centred grief programs

January 26, 2023

Hope discusses hope grief camp gave her and her family a place to feel normal

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Bryan – Mom

October 30, 2021

Bryan gives his mother credit for how well she raised her two sons after her husband was murdered

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Mary S – My story (long)

March 1, 2021

Mary tells the story of her life with her husband, his death and then the loss of both of her parents

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Sam – How grief changes

September 9, 2020

Sam who lost his father, uncle and cousin talks about time and grief

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

December 10, 2024

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…

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Katie – Getting stronger

December 1, 2022

Katie talks losing her mother when she was young and how the experience helped her when she lost her Dad

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Weaving the Tapestry of Love

June 12, 2025

Learning to become a better person is a wonderful consequence of being in a loving relationship with someone; you’re present in ways that help them grow into their best self. It’s an organic process you flow with on a journey we map out with intention, though in reality, it remains unknowable. That is why a…

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Keith – “My story”

December 10, 2018

Keith tells his story and why he became a counsellor.

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Hope – Going back to school

January 26, 2023

Hope talks about the shift she felt when she went back to school after her father’s death.

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Hope – Different lenses

January 26, 2023

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

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Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

March 31, 2022

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

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Parent / Video