Death of a Parent

Adam – Advice

Adam shares his advice about losing and remembering a loved one

Adam – Story 2

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

Matt – Wisdom to pass on

Matt offers advice to his younger self about grief. Matt continues to grieve the death of his birth mother.

Finding Joy During the Holidays After Loss When Everything Feels Awful: A message of hope.

My mother died in the middle of the night on January 1, four days before I turned sixteen. I don’t remember much about Christmas the couple weeks before she died, just that we spent a lot of that season in the ICU of the hospital where my mother had birthed my brother and I. For…

Hope – Going back to school

Hope talks about the shift she felt when she went back to school after her father’s death.

Adam – Crying and singing

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Adam talks about how crying and singing helps him cope even at the cemetary

Bryan – Trauma

Bryan discusses trauma anxiety, support and the loss of his father to gun violence

Lyss – Support, Family, and Friends

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

Jessica M – A Parking Lot Memorial

Jessica shares how her family gathered after her uncle died during COVID and how her family came up with a creative way of getting together in a parking lot.

Lyss – Seasonal Reminders

Lyss seasonal reminders and her mother dying at New Years

Katie – Coping strategies

Katie explains her coping strategies

Jackie – Expressive arts can help when grief is confusing

Jackie talks about how working with an artist therapist helped her after her sister and mother died