Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Weathering the Intense Emotions of Grief

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.

Sarah K – Grieving during a pandemic

Sarah discusses how the pandemic has pulled back the curtain on grief

Kim – Checking in is very important

Kim explains why it is so important to check in and keep in touch with people who have lost

Zoreena – My Story

Zoreena talks about COVID and the loss of her father and a cousin

Lynda – “It’s complicated during a pandemic”

Lynda talks about how things are so much more complicated in these times

Michele – Covid and support

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in griefMIchele talks about COVID restrictions, technology and ways to support

Sharron “Grieving During the Pandemic”

Sharron talks about how Covid-19 has really affected and disrupted the way people are grieving.

Kim – You can get through this

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

Jane – Grief and yoga

Jane shares about the impact yoga, and moving her body in general, on her mental health while she processes grief.

Kim – Some cry some don’t

Kim discusses how tough COVID made the hospital experience and the support she received

Corrie – Pandemic of grief

Corrie discusses how much grief there is

Sunny- Processing Different Losses During the Pandemic