Death of a Parent

Katie – My Story

Katie shares about her story and losing her Dad to cancer during COVID

Lisa -Advice to grievers

Lisa explains her thoughts about how to help someone in grief

Amber – Grieving at the age of 17

Amber disucss what it’s like to be a teen when a parent dies

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Mary S – Coping with multiple loss

Mary explains the challenges of dealing with the death of her partner and then her parents

Logan – My story

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

Karyn and Cathy – “Suicide”

Karyn and Cathy discuss how the stigma of suicide impacted the lack of acknowledgement of their grief and loss. Karyn and Cathy continues to grieve the death of their father by suicide.

Hope – Camp for grief

Hope talks about the benefits of grief camp for her and her twin sister

Karyn and Aidan – Humour

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

Antoinetta – Story

Antoinetta tells her story of grief and her father getting lung cancer

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

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…