Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Cara – Intellectual disabilities, sharing and expressing about grief

November 6, 2022

Cara discusses how it’s very important that people living with intellectual disabilities have the opportunity to not only know about the information about the person being ill and dying and having the choice and opportunity to go to after death rituals. It’s also really important that they get the opportunity to share their story in whatever way they communicate. This can be verbally through sign language, through communication books, art, music, going for walks, being in nature

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Shannon – Blessings and sadness

November 22, 2022

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

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Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

March 14, 2022

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving selfMichele talks about coping that since being a child how creativity helped

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Amanda – “It’s a gift to love someone”

December 10, 2018

Amanda talks about grief and it’s connection to love.

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Carrie – Creating a photo narrative

June 21, 2021

Carrie explains how photography can give insight and express things that there reallhy aren’t words for. Photography can be one addtitional way in which to express and capture those moments of our sorrow, grief and pain as well as transformation and healing

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Maureen – “Grief can come back”

October 17, 2019

Maureen explains however grief comes back, you are OK.

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Professional Insights Playlist

July 6, 2020

Listen to the thoughts and insights of professionals helping people and families to cope with grief.

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Maureen – Grief and Holidays

December 21, 2020

Maureen talks about feelings duing holidays

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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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Cara – Defining Intellectual disabilities and grief

November 6, 2022

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.

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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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Rev. Sky – “Sharing”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky explains how sharing helps you heal.

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