Death of a Partner

Jean – Coping

Jean shares how coping can be complicated

Hope – Different lenses

Hope shares about the differences in experiences between losing her father and her Mom losing a spouse

Mary S – My story

Mary discusses the end stages of her husband of 40 years gireiving him and grieving who she was when with him

John – Empower yourself

John shares his thoughts about how to support someone in grief and his processes

Holly – Befriending our mortality workshops

Holly explains how creating can be helpful with grief and how we don’t talk about death

John – What I have learned

John explains how he has changed since his wife died and now looking back what he would say to his self right after his loss

Shannon – Losing is a life skill

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.

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

Jean shares about being a counselor and going through her own grief

Shannon – Blessings and sadness

Shannon discusses how just showing up, being present is a powerful way of supporting to someone who has lost. Listen more – talk less.

Kara – “Getting over the dying part”

Kara describes the process of moving past the traumatic memory of her partner’s death to reflect on the beautiful moments of their thirty years together.

Andrea – Loneliness and support

Andrea talks about how tough it is to be alone and how her friends and family have come through for her

Grief & Ice Cream

When my wife of 18 years died in 2016, I became a single father missing the love of my life, and also had to learn how to raise two girls (13-17 at the time) on my own. I remember a conversation I had with my mother-in-law and oldest daughter that began as reminiscing over a person who became a lost love to all of us. We all talked about different aspects of my wife but shortly, it transformed into a “who meant more to her” fest.