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Lyss – Support, Family, and Friends

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

Finding Your Way Through Hard Feelings Playlist

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

Bryan – Vulnerability

Bryan talks about things are not always OK and that’s OK and things are going to get better

John Martin – Help with Grief

John talks about how each grief is unique

Kristal – Attending Memorials as a Support Worker

Kristal discusses the importance of finding ways to honour people that have been lost and how they have impacted you. She speaks to how she often chooses not to attend public memorials for those she has lost as a support worker as they are often very overwhelming. Instead, she has her own personal rituals or ways of honouring those she has lost personally including opening a window. She discusses how this practice was used when she worked in palliative care.

Lisa -Advice to grievers

Lisa explains her thoughts about how to help someone in grief

Christian – Language around those pushed to the margins

Christian talks about how people who are pushed to the margins are not discussed as part of our community and how we need to include them. As a community how do we care for our neighbours and how do we mourn the loss of our neighbours

Cara – Grief and intellectual disabilities is a topic that needs to “get out there”

Cara shares some information from a participant in her research on intellectual disabilities and the bereaved. A person with an intellectual disability said… “Grief: It’s a topic that needs to get out there” Grief is something that so many people are hesitant to talk about, to display, to show, because there’s so many social rules around how we grieve. This is particularily challenging for the intellectually disabled.

Susan – “Relationships”

Susan explains the shift that happens with yourself and your relationships.

Maureen – “Anger”

Maureen talks about the power of anger and how to deal with it.

John – Foggy Brain

John discusses how difficult it is to concentrate after loss

Cale – Advice for writing music about grief

Cale discussses the relationship between your art and how you feel