Death of A Loved One

Caileigh – Advice to my younger self about grief

February 23, 2023

Caileigh talks about things that you can do to balance out feelings that it’s okay to experience all of the big feelings that you have, to find joy in little moments, and to find ways that you can cope with those big feelings.

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Jackie – Finger painting and grief

March 6, 2022

Jackie discusses how finger painting help her with her feelings while she was grieving the loss of her mother and sister

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Adam – Things that are OK to do

December 21, 2022

Adam talks about things he does to cope with grief like singing and crying

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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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Craig – Resilience in the Face of Adversity

August 1, 2023

Craig how he overcame a series of challenges, including the loss of his marriage, his job, and his home. He talks about how he found the strength to keep going and how he learned to be more resilient.

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Shannon – Guilt vs Shame

November 22, 2022

Shannon talks about guilt can be a part of the grieving process but shame has to do with “is there something wrong with me”

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Krista – “Mental illness and self medicating”

December 4, 2019

Krista talks about mental health and self medicating. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

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Cheryl and Mike – “Their Story”

December 16, 2018

Cheryl and Mike discuss losing more than one family member. They continue to grieve Cheryl’s father and the death their daughter in a car accident.

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Holly – The symbolic nature of death

March 7, 2021

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

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Cheryl and Mike – “Everybody’s different”

December 16, 2018

Cheryl and Mike discuss how everyone is unique in their grieving. They continue to grieve the death their daughter in a car accident.

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Learning from Grief

December 7, 2022

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.

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Jean – Be good to yourself

April 1, 2022

Jean shares about support and not being hard on yourself

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