Death of A Loved One

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Joyce – Using my grief experience to help people

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

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Hope – Waves of grief

Hope talks about the loss of her father and how grief comes in waves and how a therapist helped her understand that she had pushed her emotions down

Lyss – Music

Lyss remembers playing music for her mother as she was dying and how music has helped with feelings

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Jane – Sitting in our feelings

Jane – Sitting in our feelings

Jane shares how she has learned to be more present in her feelings while grieving during the pandemic.

Katie – Getting stronger

Katie talks losing her mother when she was young and how the experience helped her when she lost her Dad

John – Dating again

John talks about being asked by his daughters if he would ever date again

Krista – “They are not trying to kill themselves”

Krista explains they are not trying to kill themselves. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Karyn and Aidan – Describing grief during the pandemic

Karyn and Aidan talk about how their grief has changed and the challenges they have faced grieving 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.