Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Janice – “Photographs”

Janice explains how photographs can be a doorway to help move forward.

Donna – “Living with grief”

Donna talks about the threads of grief and her personal experience.

Maureen – “Your experience of loss is unique”

Maureen explains how your experience of grief is your own.

Caileigh – Wanting to fix a grieving child

Caileigh gives advice about the desire to fix, especially to parents who are grieving themselves as well as supporting children who are grieving.

Claudia – Materials in art therapy

Claudia discusses all of the wonderful options of materials to use in art therapy. Art, markers, clay, pencils, water collours, cutting, tearing. They physical engagment with the materials is like alchemy.

Left Out: Enfranchising Children’s Grief and Loss

By: Jessica Milette, MSW, RSW All human beings have the capacity to grieve: people with intellectual disabilities, those living with a traumatic brain injury, and children of all ages. However, many people can experience disenfranchised grief when someone dies. Disenfranchised grief is generally grief that is not usually openly acknowledged, socially accepted or publicly mourned.…

Rev. Sky – “What is trauma?”

Rev. Sky discusses how trauma affects us on many levels.

Maureen – “Unresolved conflicts”

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

Weathering the Intense Emotions of Grief

Grief often comes with powerful, unpredictable emotional shifts that can be painful to experience. While it’s important to find ways to sit with these feelings, to acknowledge the pain of grief and accept loss, it’s also necessary to find ways to ease and manage the pain. There are several simple activities that you can explore to help.

Marija – Latent grief

Marija explains latent grief

Rev. Sky – “Sharing”

Rev. Sky explains how sharing helps you heal.