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Madelyn – My story

Madelyn tells her story and how she became a music therapist working in palliative care

Cheryl and Mike – “Getting help”

Mike and Cheryl talk about their surviving daughter and getting help. They continue to grieve the death their daughter in a car accident.

Susan – “Bearing Witness”

Susan discusses why it’s OK to talk about death and how you want to die.

Jane – Grief and meditation

Jane shares how she practices daily meditation and how that helps her manage her thoughts and feelings.

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

Zoreena talks about her father’s decline in a nursing home during COVID

Carrie – Photography and grieving

Carrie discusses how photography can be very freeing in that it allows for exploration and move us away from the need to explain and can be more about experience what our own process is all about.

Holly – The symbolic nature of death

Holly discusses doing art, the symbolic nature of urns and the denial of death

Russell – “My Story”

Russell discusses learning how to deal with the loss of his son.

Maureen – “If someone you know has experienced pregnancy & infant loss”

Maureen explains practical tools to help someone who is grieving.

Valmy – It’s ok to feel how you are feeling

Valmy discusses feelings and how she copes

Janice – “Being triggered”

Janice discusses triggering, overreacting, under-reacting, and taking responsibility for the size of our feelings.

Lyss – Music

Lyss remembers playing music for her mother as she was dying and how music has helped with feelings