Supporting Others

Karyn and Aidan – Supporting each other

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they supported each other and how they coped with John being hospitalized

Thoughts About Grief Counselling Playlist

Listen to the thoughts and insights of people and families living with grief.

Teresa – Understanding people with intellectual disabilities and grief

Teresa shares an example and discusses the importance of truly understanding people with intellectual disabilities when they are telling us their stories

John Martin – The Trauma of Loss and Grief

John discusses trauma and grief

Cara – The real issues for grieving people with intellectual disabilities

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.

Michele – Normalizing conversations around death dying grief and loss

Michele discusses grief literacy, the importance of talking and that dying is a part of life

What Can Help with Early Traumatic Grief?

When your child dies you are thrown into a nightmare. None of this is expected to be easy.
Even after several months, it still isn’t. There have been some things that have helped us during
our grief. Maybe they will help you, too.

Zoreena – Ask for help

Zoreena explains how important it is to ask for help

Andrea – Loneliness and support

Andrea talks about how tough it is to be alone and how her friends and family have come through for her

Laura- Loss to Suicide

Joyce – Walking beside people who are stuggling with addiction

Joyce explains why it so important to help people who are struggling with addiction

Adrianna – Storytelling… intuitive and instrumental

Adrianna tells how storytelling helped her process her grief