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Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

Claudia talks about why sometimes not to take your art home after therapy

Caileigh – Grief and child behaviour

Caileigh explains when a child experiences grief or a traumatic grief experience, there’s often behaviour that comes from that. Grief impacts behaviour. And sometimes it can be outward behaviour and sometimes it can be internalized behaviour. The good news about grief and behaviour is that it can be managed and supported through effective communication, through therapy and through coping strategies.

Cale – Music and processing

Cale talks about death in the family and writing about the experience

Claudia – Being stuck and art therapy

Claudia discusses remunating how art therapist can help create different positive perspectives

Kristal – Harm Reduction

Kristal speaks to the importance of harm reduction and how it can save lives. She discusses how accessing harm reduction leads to the creation of connections with community support. It allows community outreach members to connect with community members and get to know them, and to know to look for them if they don’t see them when they usually do.

Karyn and Aidan – Challenges with COVID restrictions

Karyn and Aidan discuss the COVID restrictions on visitations and how they managed

Sam – My story

Sam tells his story and losing his father, uncle and cousin in a short period of time

Christian – COVID amplified the inequities in society

Christian talks about those that have very little and how COVID amplified their difficulties

Shawn – “Loss of a Sister”

Shawn talks about his guilt and the loss of his sister.

Kate – COVID and grieving with my parents

Kate shares about how COVID was stress on top of dealing with the loss of her brother

Jenn – Art can give voice

Jenn talks about the barriers that may prevent someone from including art as part of their grief or emotional process including judgment of your art skills and more.

Joyce – Walking beside people who are stuggling with addiction

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