Death of a Partner

Mary S – Dogs

Mary talks about how special dogs are and how much they helped her grief

Collective Grief

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Karyn and Aidan – Going forward

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

Jean – My Story

Jean talks about isolation and grieving during a pandemic

Mary S – Grief is not the enemy

Mary talks about embracing grief is love

Karyn and Aidan – Humour

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

Andrea – My Story

Andrea shares her story of losing her husband during a pandemic

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.

Weaving the Tapestry of Love

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…

Hope – Different lenses

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

John – The power of journaling

John shares how journaling has helped him so much