Death of a Parent

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Zoreena – Tribute

Zoreena talks about tributes, family, pulling together and not being able to have a funeral

Hope – Benefits of child-centred grief programs

Hope discusses hope grief camp gave her and her family a place to feel normal

Margaux – “Find People in Similar Situations”

Margaux talks about group therapy and writing as tools for processing grief. Margaux continues to grieve the death of her mother from breast cancer.

Lyss – Support, Family, and Friends

Lyss discusses the long process of her mother dying, miscarriages and support from family and friends

Zoreena – My Story

Zoreena talks about COVID and the loss of her father and a cousin

Antoinetta – Things that are hard about school

Antoinetta shares about the challenges she faced when returning to school after her father died

Antoinetta – Story

Antoinetta tells her story of grief and her father getting lung cancer

Karyn and Aidan – Our story 2

Karyn and Aidan – Aidan tells the story leading up to John’s death during the pandemic

Katie – Reminders in nature

Katie talks about crying privately and how nature can help. Cardinals remind her of her father

Matt – Telling my young son

Matt describes the death of his birth mother to his young son.

Mourning a Man I Never Knew

This spring, I turned fifty-four. I have now outlived the father I never knew: my biological father. It’s been almost twenty-three years since we spoke; eighteen years since I learned of his death. I’m still dealing with the strange grief of his loss.