Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Janice – “Grief and the whole relationship”

Janice uses a personal story to talk about how loss can be related to the whole relationship not just the death.

Maureen – “Grief can come back”

Maureen explains however grief comes back, you are OK.

Caileigh – Sharing grief experience to spread hope and kindness

Caileigh talks about taking the opportunity to share her personal and professional grief experiences as a way to spread hope and to spread kindness.

Carrie – Validation

Carrie talks about validation and feeling that someone is full responsive and fully present to you and what is going on in your grief… feeling “felt”

Keith – “You need not be alone”

Keith discusses getting help, resources and that you don’t need to be alone.

Marija – Permission to mourn

Marija discusses the value of being allowing yourself to mourn

Rev. Sky – “Feeling stuck”

Rev. Sky describes being stuck and shifting.

Kristal – Attending Memorials as a Support Worker

Kristal discusses the importance of finding ways to honour people that have been lost and how they have impacted you. She speaks to how she often chooses not to attend public memorials for those she has lost as a support worker as they are often very overwhelming. Instead, she has her own personal rituals or ways of honouring those she has lost personally including opening a window. She discusses how this practice was used when she worked in palliative care.

Marija – Acknowledging feelings

Marija talks about our tools for coping

Carrie – Thanatology

Carrie explains how thanatolgy is the study of death dying grief and loss.

Marija – Types of Loss in a Pandemic

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

Amanda – “Hospice”

Amanda talks about the comfort zone in palliative care.