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Kristal – Lack of Memorials During Pandemic

Kristal talks about how memorials can offer closure to people who are grieving, find a community, and share stories. With the absence of this during the pandemic, many people turned inward to grieve or isolated, which can create safety issues and have an impact on mental health. She speaks to how this leads to depression, physical pain, and it compounds upon itself.

Susan – “What I think about”

Susan explains how she is living and dying at the same time.

Adrianna – Therapy and loss

Adrianna talks about how different kinds of therapy helps

Adam – Story 2

Adam discusses his busy life and how he has coped after losing his mother

Shannon – Hope for Healing

Shannon shares about losing her husband to suicide, her parents and her father-in-law. She felt broken and to be able to take care of her kids and her self seemed overwhelming. It took someone telling her that you can heal from trauma to give her hope for healing.

Bryan – Empathy for others

Bryan talks about how losing his father to gun violence was difficult and how taking things day by day helped him get through many difficult times. Now he wants to help children who are going through something similar to what he did. Things will get better and there is always a light at the end of the tunnel

Madelyn -Healing and support group for Asian Canadian women

Madelyn discusses the value in having your voice heard

Krista – “It’s not your fault”

Krista discusses how people blame themselves. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Amber – Talking about death

Amber explains why it’s so important to talk about grief and her kids

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.

Hope – Camp for grief

Hope talks about the benefits of grief camp for her and her twin sister

Maureen – Grief and Holidays

Maureen talks about feelings duing holidays