Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Carrie – Thanatology

Carrie explains how thanatolgy is the study of death dying grief and loss.

Maureen – Holiday kindness and grief

Maureen discusses grieving during the holidays and being lifter up by kindness

Michele – Talks about being a death doula

Michele explains what death doula’s do. Doula means servant. They support people on many different levels… for instance, emotionally, spiritually and physically

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.

Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

Claudia talks about why sometimes not to take your art home after therapy

Maureen – “Grief can change the landscape of your relationships”

Maureen discusses how relationships can be challenged by grief.

Jacqueline – Advice to Younger Self

Jacqueline talks about seeking help and being kind to yourself

Caileigh – Recommendations as a therapist and a griever

Caileigh discussed two recommendations for parents on how to support their child’s grief. as a therapist and a griever. The first is to recognize that being with is far more important than fixing. There’s two pieces to connection. The first being that one of the most important healing aspects to grief is feeling connected to others.

Janice – “Grief is a response to loss”

Janice discusses waves of grief and how important it is to go with it.

Shannon – Blessings and sadness

Shannon discusses how just showing up, being present is a powerful way of supporting to someone who has lost. Listen more – talk less.

Sara – My Story

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

Janice – “Not feeling grief when someone dies”

Janice talks about why some people don’t feel grief and what it may mean.