Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Adrianna – Death doulas and grief

Adrianna explains what a death doula is

Michele – My Story

MIchele talks about her multiple losses starting from when she was very young

Chantal – Physical symptoms and grieving

Chantal talks about panic attacks and thinking she was having a heart attack

Madelyn -Healing and support group for Asian Canadian women

Madelyn discusses the value in having your voice heard

Jenn – Barriers to art

Jenn talks about the barriers that may prevent someone from including art as part of their grief or emotional process including judgment of your art skills and more.

Marija – Types of Loss in a Pandemic

Marija explains how all of the losses we experience during a pandemic are compounded

Claudia – Being stuck and art therapy

Claudia discusses remunating how art therapist can help create different positive perspectives

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in grief

Chantal – My Story

Chantal discusses finding a release in doing a graphic novel to explore her grief as a thesis in art therapy school

Maureen – “Carrying grief”

Maureen gives an analogy of how hard it is to carry griefMaureen gives an analogy of how hard it is to carry grief.

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.

Kristal – Attending Memorials as a Support Worker

Kristal discusses the importance of finding ways to honour people that have been lost and how they have impacted you. She speaks to how she often chooses not to attend public memorials for those she has lost as a support worker as they are often very overwhelming. Instead, she has her own personal rituals or ways of honouring those she has lost personally including opening a window. She discusses how this practice was used when she worked in palliative care.