Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Janice- “Stay with feelings”

Janice talks about how feelings can be buried and how working through them can help.

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Marija – Latent grief

Marija explains latent grief

Maureen – “Unresolved conflicts”

Maureen shares about her Dad, anger, love and some tools to manage unresolved conflicts.

Cara – My story with intellectual disabilities and grief

Cara talks about how she came to see how people with intellectual disabilities need to be supported in grief

Cheryl – “What is grief”

Cheryl defines grief and talks about how we all grieve differently.

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

Jean shares about being a counselor and going through her own grief

Amanda – “Hospice like home”

Amanda discusses the value of feeling like being at home during palliative care.

Jean – Coping

Jean shares how coping can be complicated

Maureen – “Anger”

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

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.

Jessica M – Grief is unique for each person

Jessica discusses our uniquenesses during grief, giving yourself permission to grieve and that there are many ways of self care during grief.