There One Day and Gone the Next : Art Therapy and Grief

Community Grief Toolkit [Downloadable!]

December 23, 2023

This toolkit also reflects on how we support grief in the community. The tools to come together and honour our collective experiences and how to build the resources for further support.

Caileigh – Wanting to fix a grieving child

February 23, 2023

Caileigh gives advice about the desire to fix, especially to parents who are grieving themselves as well as supporting children who are grieving.

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

Michele – Covid and support

March 14, 2022

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in griefMIchele talks about COVID restrictions, technology and ways to support

Keith – “How can you help”

December 10, 2018

Keith explains that by imagining being in someone’s position can show you practical ways of helping them.

John Martin – Recognize What Your Loss Means For You Now And In The Future

March 13, 2022

John discusses what comes next after initial shock

Zoreena – Ask for help

March 31, 2022

Zoreena explains how important it is to ask for help

Tending to My Garden of Grief

July 6, 2022

So long as I remember the lives of those I have lost, honour their presence and impact on me and celebrate their spirit, they will continue to live with me and the pain will feel bearable. It will no longer stop me in my tracks. Instead, it will encourage me and propel me forward through the transmutation of that grief into something different, something more nuanced and fluid. I’d like to share a practice for processing grief which I have found to be especially helpful.

John Martin – The Shocking Reality of Painful Loss

March 13, 2022

John talks about shock and grief

Lyss – Support, Family, and Friends

March 23, 2023

Lyss discusses the long process of her mother dying, miscarriages and support from family and friends

Rev. Sky – “Helping a friend”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky discusses the grief motto 80% listening, 20% talking and how to help someone in grief.