Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jean – Coping

Jean shares how coping can be complicated

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

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

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.

Maureen – End stages during a pandemic

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

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

Jean shares about being a counselor and going through her own grief

Zoreena – Passing on kindness

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

Sarah K – Grieving in isolation

Sarah discusses isolation, being in grief during the pandemic and the importance of keeping connected

Michele – Talks about being a death doula

Michele explains what death doula’s do. Doula means servant. They support people on many different levels… for instance, emotionally, spiritually and physically

Nicole – Pandemic’s Effect on Grieving as a Community

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

Sunny- Grief and Maintaining Health

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions