Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Cheryl – “My story”

Cheryl talks about her daughter’s organ donations.

Rev. Sky – “Sharing”

Rev. Sky explains how sharing helps you heal.

Christian – “Overdose Death”

Christian talks about an overdose death not defining who that person was.

Claudia – Art and coping with grief and loss

Claudia talk about how art is especially beneficial for someone coping with grief and loss

Marija – Latent grief

Marija explains latent grief

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

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

Maureen – Preparing for holidays

Maureen gives some ideas to help during holidays like connecting and taking time out

Michele – Advice to younger grieving self

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving self

Jen – “Yoga for grief”

Jen discusses how yoga can help release stress and give you strength to help deal with the circumstances you need to deal with.

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.

Claudia – Art therapy and costs

Claudia talks about how people may shy away from art therapy because of costs and how training schools can be an option