Supporting Others

Ripples of Grief: Supporting Ourselves, Others, and our Communities After a Death

By Jessica Milette, MSW, RSW When death knocks on the door of a community, each of us are impacted. Sometimes a death will touch many lives across a community, whether people knew the deceased personally or not. We may grieve the death of a family member, friend, or acquaintance, a well-known community member, or someone…

Donna – “Helping a grieving friend”

Donna shares some practical ways to help someone in grief.

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.”

Sunny- Supporting My Grieving Mom

Shannon – Enough

Shannon talks about us all doing the very best we can from the perspectives of a licensed clinical counselor and losing her husband to suicide.

Grief & Ice Cream

When my wife of 18 years died in 2016, I became a single father missing the love of my life, and also had to learn how to raise two girls (13-17 at the time) on my own. I remember a conversation I had with my mother-in-law and oldest daughter that began as reminiscing over a person who became a lost love to all of us. We all talked about different aspects of my wife but shortly, it transformed into a “who meant more to her” fest.

John – Empower yourself

John shares his thoughts about how to support someone in grief and his processes

Keith – “Knowing what to say”

Keith gives practical advice about helping someone in grief.

Kate – Trust and listening

Kate – explains how having someone you trust is super important so that you can have a space space to go to

John Martin – Coping with grief part 3

John gives some pointers as to how to support someone in grief

John Martin – Understanding Grief part 1

John discusses his understanding of what grief is

John Martin – Loss and Grief- Make Sure You Hear Their Story

John about the importance of hearing a griever