Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Jean – Coping

Jean shares how coping can be complicated

Caileigh – A safe place to grow and heal

Caileigh talks about how accessing play therapy can support everybody. When children have that safe place to heal, everybody around them feels good and can heal, too.

Infant & Reproductive Loss Toolkit [Free Downloadable PDFs for Individuals and Professionals]

Navigating life, death, and loss can be overwhelming. Mental health professionals designed this toolkit for individuals, parents, caregivers, and families navigating perinatal and reproductive loss. Reactions to pregnancy and reproductive loss are as unique as fingerprints. Some can process the experience relatively quickly, while others experience unrelenting pain and grief. We hope that this toolkit…

Caileigh – Working with children in grief

Caileigh shares why she likes working with and supporting children in grief. “Over the course of their lives, children and youth and families experience a lot of losses, and it’s an empowering job to empower others. I’m not only empowering them, but I’m also building parent capacity in recognizing that it does take a village and it takes a community to support a child.”

Jen – “Breathing and grief”

Jen talks about how breathing and yoga can help cope.

Rev. Sky – “Why”

Rev. Sky talks about the question of why and how to look beyond it.

Michele – Covid and virtual support

MIchele discuss support and how COVID has affected our grief in so many waysort

Michele – My Story

MIchele talks about her multiple losses starting from when she was very young

Christian – “Stigma of opioid death”

Christian talks about the social acceptance of an opioid overdose.

Chantal – Physical symptoms and grieving

Chantal talks about panic attacks and thinking she was having a heart attack

Janice – “Grief can be complicated”

Janice discusses disenfranchised grief and holding on to hurt.

Claudia – Waterlillies

Claudia talks about how she painted on panels big enough to hug to help her with her grief