Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Christian – “Remembering together in a meaningful way”

Christian discusses the power of memories.

Caleigh – Play Session

Caileigh discusses child play sessions, how children can learn about confusing feelings of grief and ways to cope.

Caileigh – Working with children in grief

Caileigh shares why she likes working with and supporting children in grief. “Over the course of their lives, children and youth and families experience a lot of losses, and it’s an empowering job to empower others. I’m not only empowering them, but I’m also building parent capacity in recognizing that it does take a village and it takes a community to support a child.”

Christian – “Grief can shape you”

Christian talks about realizing the impact grief has.

Keith – “Timeframe for grief”

Keith explains it is never too late to grieve and there is no timeline.

Cheryl – “What is grief”

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

Sara – My Story

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

Rev. Sky – “It gets easier”

Rev. Sky talks about time and allowing emotion.

Jean – Be good to yourself

Jean shares about support and not being hard on yourself

Keith – “Hope”

Keith talks about time, healing and hope.

Cara – Grief and intellectual disabilities is a topic that needs to “get out there”

Cara shares some information from a participant in her research on intellectual disabilities and the bereaved. A person with an intellectual disability said… “Grief: It’s a topic that needs to get out there” Grief is something that so many people are hesitant to talk about, to display, to show, because there’s so many social rules around how we grieve. This is particularily challenging for the intellectually disabled.

Jessica M – My Story

Jessica talks about losing her grandfather at 14 when her mother was terminal, her mother and aunt died when she was 15. She felt alone until she found a peer support group