Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in grief

Kara – Starting a grief journey again

Kara explains how Covid-19 has made her have to relearn tools to help in her grief. The pandemic changed the way Kara continued to grieve the loss of her partner.

Christian – Grieving the whole person

Christian talks about how we choose remember people when there has been a loss to drug poisoning

Nicole – Pandemic’s Effect on Grieving as a Community

Nicole discusses the ways the pandemic has affected the way people grieve as a community.

Karyn and Aidan – Planning a celebration of life during COVID

Karyn and Aidan discuss creating a celebrating of life during the pandemic

Maureen – “Permission to mourn”

Maureen explains about grief being valid and how important it is to look after yourself.

Corrie – Pandemic of grief

Corrie discusses how much grief there is

Kate – Triggers

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

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.

Lynda – “Guilt during a time of crisis”

Lynda discusses how to deal with guilt.

Corrie – Grieving during a pandemic

Corrie discuss the grieving during a pandemic