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Zoreena – COVID and isolation

Zoreena discusses COVID isolation and the loss of time to spend with her Dad and her cousing

Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving selfMichele talks about coping that since being a child how creativity helped

Joyce – My Story

Joyce shares her story about the sudden death of her son in an accident and how she has coped by helping others in need

Jackie – Finger painting and grief

Jackie discusses how finger painting help her with her feelings while she was grieving the loss of her mother and sister

Susan – “Death literacy”

Susan talks about knowledge and the process of dying.

Amber – Support

Amber talks about following through on offers of support

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

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

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.

Madelyn – The power of music

Madelyn – discusses the potency of music and processing good and bad memories

Scott – Music and grief

Scott discusses the relationship between music and grief

Cale – Celebrate the life

Cale talks about sacred fire, grief and celebrating the life

Murray – Giving space for grief in song writing class

Murray talks about song writing, death and making space