Posts by Grief Stories
Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child
Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child
Joyce shares about how she has felt as a mother who lost a child
Joyce – Your other children
Joyce – Your other children
Joyce discusses how her daughter dealt helped her as well as dealing with the loss of her brother.
Joyce- Learning to live with grief
Joyce- Learning to live with grief
Joyce shares a story of support from a friend and how she managed in her early grief
Joyce -The pandemics impact on drug poisonings
Joyce -The pandemics impact on drug poisonings
Joyce talks about drug poisonings during the pandemic
Christian – Autonomy for the homeless
Christian – Autonomy for the homeless
Christian discusses those who are unhoused and how they want a space that is theirs and how we need to take that seriously especially when it comes to grief
Christian – COVID amplified the inequities in society
Christian – COVID amplified the inequities in society
Christian talks about those that have very little and how COVID amplified their difficulties
Kristal – Grieving the Whole Person
Kristal – Grieving the Whole Person
Kristal discusses the importance of recognizing and grieving the entire person who was lost – not just who they were before they had been using drugs.
Kristal – Story of Lived Experience
Kristal – Story of Lived Experience
Kristal discusses experiencing homelessness at multiple stages of her life and how that informs her work as a peer support worker. It gives her an understanding of the nuance that surrounds the community. She uses this experience to support people who are experiencing grief related to death from drug poisoning.
Kristal – The Value of all Those Lost
Kristal – The Value of all Those Lost
Kristal emphasizes that the lives of those lost to drug poisoning had value, they were an opportunity that was lost, and that the community is missing so much in their absence.
Kristal – Professional Experience and Work
Kristal – Professional Experience and Work
Kristal discusses being a peer support worker, working on a one on one level with community members to help them with their goals related to substance abuse. She supports those in the community dealing with loss and grief. She speaks to everyone’s experience with loss and grief being very individual.
Kristal – Poetry, Comedy, & Art for Grieving
Kristal – Poetry, Comedy, & Art for Grieving
Kristal discusses using poetry and other forms of creative expression as a distraction from her grief and to disassociate in a safe and productive way. She discusses grief being love with nowhere to go, so she puts it into art.
Kristal – Harm Reduction
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.