Death of A Loved One

Shannon – Hope for Healing

Shannon shares about losing her husband to suicide, her parents and her father-in-law. She felt broken and to be able to take care of her kids and her self seemed overwhelming. It took someone telling her that you can heal from trauma to give her hope for healing.

John – Foggy Brain

John discusses how difficult it is to concentrate after loss

Lisa – How to support someone in grief

Lisa shares what was helpful from other people when she was grieving

Cheryl – “My story” short version

Cheryl talks about her daughter’s organ donations.

Learning from Grief

Grief is weird. Odd start, I know, but that was the sentence I used a lot whenever someone asked me how I was. It was never a constant feeling; it changed day to day. And still does. It’s the full gambit of emotions from sadness to anger to guilt and, though dark, even humour found its way in.

Lyss – Chemical Pregnancy and Blighted Ovum

Lyss shares about chemical pregnancy, blighted ovum, abortion pill, miscarriage, and triggers.

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…

Sunny- The Importance of Friends While Grieving

Kim – You can get through this

Kim talks about the difference between her Dad and her Mum’s death

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

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

Joyce – Using my grief experience to help people

Joyce talks about the positive experiences she has in helping other people in grief

Doug M – “Photographs”

Doug explains why photographs are so important in helping you deal with grief. Doug continues to grieve the death of his first wife.