Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Cara – The real issues for grieving people with intellectual disabilities

November 6, 2022

Cara provides some context for the real issue of grief in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and those supporting them, including that we consider that there’s not a lot of education or information out there about how best to support someone with an intellectual disability who is grieving.

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Jean – Helping your children through grief

April 1, 2022

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

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Caileigh – A safe place to grow and heal

February 23, 2023

Caileigh talks about how accessing play therapy can support everybody. When children have that safe place to heal, everybody around them feels good and can heal, too.

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Janice – “It’s never too late to grieve”

December 10, 2018

Janice talks about the importance of noticing feelings.

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Caileigh – Through play children learn so much about their grief

February 23, 2023

Caileigh discussed how children learn so much about their grief through play. There’s less confusion, there’s less anxiety, there’s more awareness. For the child and the parent, there is more acceptance of grief.

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Christian – “When people say dumb things”

October 1, 2019

Christian explains how he deals with people who say dumb things.

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Chantal – Giving space

August 5, 2022

Chantal discusses how it is good and honouring to the one you’ve lost to give space and feel everything

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Corrie – Pandemic of grief

July 16, 2020

Corrie discusses how much grief there is

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Adrianna – Metabolizing grief

April 16, 2021

Adrianna explains metabolizing grief and grief literacy training

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Cara – People with intellectual disabilities need to be recognized and honoured in their grief

November 6, 2022

Cara talks about grievers living with intellectual disabilities and that it’s not about those of us who are neuro-typical, giving them a voice or providing them or saying things for them. Rather, it’s that they already have a voice. They already have these experiences and they want them to be recognized, acknowledged and honoured.

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Jessica M – Finding Hope

June 13, 2023

Jessica shares memories of her brothers birthday which was just before her mothers death and how they all found hope

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Jacqueline – Digital Story

August 26, 2022

Jacqueline discusses what a digital story can be and how creatiing one can create positive breakthroughs

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