Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Amanda – “Listening”

Amanda shares the importance of listening and being comfortable with silence.

Cara – Grief and intellectual disabilities is a topic that needs to “get out there”

Cara shares some information from a participant in her research on intellectual disabilities and the bereaved. A person with an intellectual disability said… “Grief: It’s a topic that needs to get out there” Grief is something that so many people are hesitant to talk about, to display, to show, because there’s so many social rules around how we grieve. This is particularily challenging for the intellectually disabled.

Maureen – “Anger”

Maureen talks about the power of anger and how to deal with it.

Janice – “Feelings”

Janice talks about the importance of allowing our feelings as that’s the only way to get through them.

Christian – “Grief can shape you”

Christian talks about realizing the impact grief has.

Maureen – “Your experience of loss is unique”

Maureen explains how your experience of grief is your own.

Michele – Covid and support

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in griefMIchele talks about COVID restrictions, technology and ways to support

Cheryl – “What is grief”

Cheryl defines grief and talks about how we all grieve differently.

Maureen – “Unresolved conflicts”

Maureen shares about her Dad, anger, love and some tools to manage unresolved conflicts.

Claudia – Working with an art therapist

Claudia how all art making is theraputic and working with an art therapist amplifies the process in a positive way

Michael – “A story of loss and longing”

Michael relays a story of a man coping after the loss of his wife.

Jessica M – It’s OK not to cry

Jessica discusses how grief is individual and finding the way forward can be different for everyone.