Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Donna – “Helping a grieving friend”

Donna shares some practical ways to help someone in grief.

Madelyn – Rituals and the Chinese grieving process

Madelyn talks about expressing your grief in Chinese cultures and how rituals are a war of grieving providing comfort

Chantal – Grief and art therapy group

Chantal talks about the honour of being witness to other peoples story and exploration of grief and art therapy

Jacqueline – Where to store art works

Jacqueline explains how art can be like journal entries that you would keep private

Claudia – Defining an art therapist

Claudia talks about art therapy as a form of psycho therapy

Caileigh – Grief and child behaviour

Caileigh explains when a child experiences grief or a traumatic grief experience, there’s often behaviour that comes from that. Grief impacts behaviour. And sometimes it can be outward behaviour and sometimes it can be internalized behaviour. The good news about grief and behaviour is that it can be managed and supported through effective communication, through therapy and through coping strategies.

Caileigh – Recommendations as a therapist and a griever

Caileigh discussed two recommendations for parents on how to support their child’s grief. as a therapist and a griever. The first is to recognize that being with is far more important than fixing. There’s two pieces to connection. The first being that one of the most important healing aspects to grief is feeling connected to others.

Jean – Be good to yourself

Jean shares about support and not being hard on yourself

Rev. Sky – “Yearning”

Rev. Sky discusses yearning and how it’s OK to feel those emotions.

Keith – “Difference between grief and mourning”

Keith explains how grief is internal and mourning is external.

Keith – “Grief at any age”

Keith discusses grief and age.

Michele – Covid and virtual support

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