Bereavement Professionals’ Insights
There One Day and Gone the Next : Art Therapy and Grief
This blog post contains information about using art therapy to process grief, including specific examples.
Shannon – Losing is a life skill
Shannon shares about losing her husband to suicide, her parents and her father-in-law. She felt broken and to be able to take care of her kids and her self seemed overwhelming. It took someone telling her that you can heal from trauma to give her hope for healing.
Shannon – Hope for Healing
Shannon shares about losing her husband to suicide, her parents and her father-in-law. She felt broken and to be able to take care of her kids and her self seemed overwhelming. It took someone telling her that you can heal from trauma to give her hope for healing.
Shannon – Guilt vs Shame
Shannon talks about guilt can be a part of the grieving process but shame has to do with “is there something wrong with me”
Shannon – Growing through Grief
Shannon discusses post traumatic growth and how it can be an expectation
Shannon – Blessings and sadness
Shannon discusses how just showing up, being present is a powerful way of supporting to someone who has lost. Listen more – talk less.
Shannon – Power of Presence
Shannon discusses how just showing up, being present is a powerful way of supporting to someone who has lost. Listen more – talk less.
Shannon – Enough
Shannon talks about us all doing the very best we can from the perspectives of a licensed clinical counselor and losing her husband to suicide.
Cara – People with intellectual disabilities need to be recognized and honoured in their grief
Cara talks about grievers living with intellectual disabilities and that it’s not about those of us who are neuro-typical, giving them a voice or providing them or saying things for them. Rather, it’s that they already have a voice. They already have these experiences and they want them to be recognized, acknowledged and honoured.
Cara – Intellectual disabilities and advance planning
Cara explains that people living with intellectual disabilities are growing to older ages, much like the rest of the population. And as folks are aging what we’re seeing is the need for families more so than ever, to do some advanced planning for who will take over any caregiving decision making or where that person may live, what sort of support they may need and what that’s going to look like after the parents or the guardians die so that this doesn’t become a crisis situation.
Cara – Intellectual disabilities, sharing and expressing about grief
Cara discusses how it’s very important that people living with intellectual disabilities have the opportunity to not only know about the information about the person being ill and dying and having the choice and opportunity to go to after death rituals. It’s also really important that they get the opportunity to share their story in whatever way they communicate. This can be verbally through sign language, through communication books, art, music, going for walks, being in nature