Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jean – My Story

Jean talks about isolation and grieving during a pandemic

Christian – Language around those pushed to the margins

Christian talks about how people who are pushed to the margins are not discussed as part of our community and how we need to include them. As a community how do we care for our neighbours and how do we mourn the loss of our neighbours

Laura- Loss to Suicide

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.

Zoreena – Ask for help

Zoreena explains how important it is to ask for help

Lynda – “The importance of getting professional help”

Lynda discusses the many ways professionals can help.

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

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

Tips for Grieving During the Holidays

The holidays can bring up a lot of feelings, especially when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. Whether it’s the first holiday season without someone, the holidays mark a time where someone you love died, or it’s just hard to be around celebration when you’re not feeling celebratory, December can feel heavy.

These are a few tips for grieving during the holidays.

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

What I know about grief

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.

Karyn and Aidan – Supporting each other

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they supported each other and how they coped with John being hospitalized

Christian – Grieving those who died of drug poisoning

Christian talks about grieving, stigma and dying from drug poisoning