Death of a Partner

Holly – Befriending our mortality workshops

Holly explains how creating can be helpful with grief and how we don’t talk about death

Karyn and Aidan – Support from others

Karyn and Aidan discuss how family, friends, and people they didn’t know in the community supported them.Talking, meals, dog walking are among the things that made a huge difference.

Shannon – Growing through Grief

Shannon discusses post traumatic growth and how it can be an expectation

Kara – Uncertainty

Kara discusses how Covid-19 has created uncertainty and impacted grieving.The pandemic changed the way Kara continued to grieve the loss of her partner.

Karyn and Aidan – Going forward

Karyn and Aidan talk about Aidan’s wedding after John died and how they continue to cope

Kara – “You change”

Kara discusses evolving, growth and change. Kara continues to grieve the death of her partner.

Andrea – Grieving during a pandemic

Andrea discusses the challenges of grieving during a pandemic

Holly – The symbolic nature of death

Holly discusses doing art, the symbolic nature of urns and the denial of death

Mary S – The value of writing

Mary talks about how much writing has helped inlcuding writing what her partner would have said

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.

Jean – My Story

Jean talks about isolation and grieving during a pandemic

Kara “It Changes You”

Kara tells her story and explains how things have changed on her journey. Kara continues to grieve the death of her partner.