Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Joyce -The pandemics impact on drug poisonings

April 23, 2023

Joyce talks about drug poisonings during the pandemic

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

What I know about grief

May 29, 2022

The following are some things I know to be true about grief for me, based on my lived experience. Some of them may resonate with you as well. Grief is unique to the people experiencing it in each moment, so please take whatever makes sense to you from this share and leave whatever doesn’t.

Blog Post / Collective/Community Grief / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Death of A Loved One / Grief and Trauma / Suicide / Supporting Others

Christian – Grieving those who died of drug poisoning

April 23, 2023

Christian talks about grieving, stigma and dying from drug poisoning

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic / I Am A Professional / Video

Zoreena – Passing on kindness

March 31, 2022

Zoreena talks about wakes, funerals, COVID and the importance of kindness

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

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

March 14, 2022

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

Art / Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Video

Jane – Struggling to process layers of grief

March 30, 2022

Jane talks about her experience navigating multiple losses in a short time and the impact the pandemic has had on that by adding even more multi-facitated layers of grief

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

Sunny- Grieving Different Losses

February 23, 2022
Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of a Grandparent / Death of A Loved One

Laura- Loss from Addiction

February 21, 2022
Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic / Video

Nicole – Stigma Surrounding Drug Use

March 25, 2023

Nicole discusses how the stigma around drug use has an impact on how people feel able to grieve when those in their community are lost.

Collective/Community Grief / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic / Supporting Others / 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

Karyn and Aidan – The what if game and guilt

February 21, 2022

Karyn and Aidan explain how they have dealt with guilt

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of a Parent / Death of a Partner / Video

Maureen – Funeral during the pandemic

September 28, 2020

Maureen talks about funeral arrangements during a pandemic

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Video