Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Adrianna – Metabolizing grief

April 16, 2021

Adrianna explains metabolizing grief and grief literacy training

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Caileigh – Working with children in grief

February 23, 2023

Caileigh shares why she likes working with and supporting children in grief. “Over the course of their lives, children and youth and families experience a lot of losses, and it’s an empowering job to empower others. I’m not only empowering them, but I’m also building parent capacity in recognizing that it does take a village and it takes a community to support a child.”

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Caileigh – My own grief and supporting others

February 23, 2023

Caileigh tells about her own grief and now it has given her a really powerful lens on how to support children going through grief as well. Along with her professional education and training, there is now a different perspective on grief and how that fits in with supporting others.

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Claudia – Art and coping with grief and loss

August 2, 2022

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

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Cara – People with intellectual disabilities need to be recognized and honoured in their grief

November 6, 2022

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.

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Reflections on Mother’s Day

May 8, 2023

Mother’s day is a holiday where we show appreciation and care for the maternal roles in our lives. However, this holiday can feel very overwhelming for those of us who are grieving the death of a mother figure, a mother grieving their child, or those of us grieving the loss of not being able to become mothers ourselves.

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Janice – “Grief and the whole relationship”

December 10, 2018

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

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Corrie – Getting comfortable with discomfort

July 16, 2020

Corrie talks about being comfortable and uncomfortable with grief

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Keith – “Timeframe for grief”

December 10, 2018

Keith explains it is never too late to grieve and there is no timeline.

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Caileigh – Advice to my younger self about grief

February 23, 2023

Caileigh talks about things that you can do to balance out feelings that it’s okay to experience all of the big feelings that you have, to find joy in little moments, and to find ways that you can cope with those big feelings.

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Keith – “Difference between grief and mourning”

December 10, 2018

Keith explains how grief is internal and mourning is external.

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Sara – Music at the end of life

April 30, 2021

Sara talks about the values of music at the end of life

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