Death of A Loved One

Matt – My Story

July 16, 2020

Matt tells how he found his birth mother and then lost her.

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Donna B – “Offering Support”

September 24, 2019

Donna explains how talking/listening is a help. Donna continues to grieve the death her son during service in Afghanistan.

Death During Service / Death of a Child / Grief and Trauma / Supporting Others / Video

Matt – Adoption and grief

July 16, 2020

Matt talks about how adoption and grief have similarities. Matt continues to grieve the death of his birth mother.

Death of A Loved One / Death of a Parent / Video

Clare – “Talking About Grief”

December 16, 2018

Clare talks about her experiences with grief. Clare continues to grieve the death of her father.

Death of a Parent / Video

Jane – My Story

March 30, 2022

Jane shares her story about losing two of her grandparents just before the pandemic and the ways the pandemic has impacted her ability to process grief.

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of a Grandparent / Death of A Loved One / Video

Sam – Mental health tools and resources

September 9, 2020

Sam discusses talking care of his mental health and group therapy after losing his father, uncle and cousin

Death of a Parent / Video

Kate – Triggers

March 11, 2023

Kate discusses how she deals with her emotions when something triggers her grief

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Sibling / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic / I Am A Griever / Video

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

April 1, 2022

Jean shares about being a counselor and going through her own grief

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Partner / Video

Doodles

December 27, 2023

On the first anniversary, I invited people who would understand – friends who knew Marshal’s love of art, and his creative spirit. They all came.

I had copied several of Marshal’s doodles of incomplete characters and creatures, with some finished for the kids to color. I eagerly watched to see which doodle or drawing each person chose.

Art / Blog Post / Death of a Child

Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child

April 23, 2023

Joyce shares about how she has felt as a mother who lost a child

Death of a Child / Death of A Loved One / I Am A Griever / Video

Jackie – Expressive arts can help when grief is confusing

March 6, 2022

Jackie talks about how working with an artist therapist helped her after her sister and mother died

Art / Death of a Parent / Death of a Sibling / Video

Weathering the Intense Emotions of Grief

August 3, 2022

Grief often comes with powerful, unpredictable emotional shifts that can be painful to experience. While it’s important to find ways to sit with these feelings, to acknowledge the pain of grief and accept loss, it’s also necessary to find ways to ease and manage the pain. There are several simple activities that you can explore to help.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Blog Post / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Death of A Loved One / Perinatal / Suicide