Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Kim – You can get through this

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

Sunny- Grief and Maintaining Health

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.

Karyn and Aidan – Planning a celebration of life during COVID

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

Kim – Some cry some don’t

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

Zoreena – My Story

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

Zoreena – Ask for help

Zoreena explains how important it is to ask for help

Kara – Uncertainty

Kara discusses how Covid-19 has created uncertainty and impacted grieving.The pandemic changed the way Kara continued to grieve the loss of her partner.

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Christian – Autonomy for the homeless

Christian discusses those who are unhoused and how they want a space that is theirs and how we need to take that seriously especially when it comes to grief

Maureen – End stages during a pandemic

Maureen talks about the end stages of her father-in-law during the pandemic.