Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Maureen – “Pregnancy and infant loss”

Maureen explains how pregnancy and infant loss is often misunderstood or underestimated.

Jenn – In grief an art therapist can be there to walk with you

Jenn discusses how an art therapists can support you in those moments of pain. They are there to honour your stories and experiences.

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.

Marija – Permission to mourn

Marija discusses the value of being allowing yourself to mourn

Maureen – “Anger”

Maureen talks about the power of anger and how to deal with it.

Shannon – Growing through Grief

Shannon discusses post traumatic growth and how it can be an expectation

Chantal – Graphic novels and art therapy

Chantal defines what a graphic novel is and how words mix with imagery like a dance

Keith – “Disenfranchised Grief”

Keith describes disenfranchised grief.

Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving selfMichele talks about coping that since being a child how creativity helped

Sara – My Story

Sara talks about why she became a music therapist, espression and connecting to feelings

Keith – “How can you help”

Keith explains that by imagining being in someone’s position can show you practical ways of helping them.

Christian – “When people say dumb things”

Christian explains how he deals with people who say dumb things.