Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

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.

Jen – “Releasing grief through yoga”

Jen discusses how some poses can help release stress.

Maureen – “Trust yourself”

Maureen talks about finding your own way in your healing process.

Maureen – “Milestones and anniversaries”

Maureen talks about loss and what happens over time.

Janice – “Let the feelings come up”

Janice talks about how it can help to let the feelings come up.

Rev. Sky – “What is a trigger”

Rev. Sky explains triggers, identifying them and what you need.

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.

Christian – “Growth out of pain”

Christian tells about how grief changes and we grow.

Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

Carrie – Photography and grieving

Carrie discusses how photography can be very freeing in that it allows for exploration and move us away from the need to explain and can be more about experience what our own process is all about.

Cara – Defining Intellectual disabilities and grief

Cara discusses how grief literacy needs to be improved across the board for people with intellectual disabilities to learn more about grief, death and dying. There is a great need to include them in this natural, normal part of life that we’ll all experience.

Donna – “Living with grief”

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