Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Lynda – “Same storm different boat”

Lynda discusses how grief is universal yet unique to everyone

Sunny- Grief and Maintaining Health

Karyn and Aidan – The what if game and guilt

Karyn and Aidan explain how they have dealt with guilt

Sunny- Supporting My Grieving Mom

Zoreena – COVID and isolation

Zoreena discusses COVID isolation and the loss of time to spend with her Dad and her cousing

Christian – COVID amplified the inequities in society

Christian talks about those that have very little and how COVID amplified their difficulties

When Death Feels like a Thief

In the heart of my grief, at my frailest, all I could see was what was no more. I grieved all that was stolen from me by death; love, security and even my very self. Had I known the value of having every pocket of who I was, picked bare by grief, I would not have fought so hard to hold onto it all.

Marija – Types of Loss in a Pandemic

Marija explains how all of the losses we experience during a pandemic are compounded

Collective Grief

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

Nicole – Grieving as a community

Nicole discusses the power of grieving together as a community. Finding connection and trust.

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

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.