Death of A Loved One

Jane – Loneliness while processing grief

Jane talks about grieving without her extended family because of the pandemic and how that’s impacted things like scattering ashes and having celebrations of life.

Collective Grief

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

Lisa -How grief changes

Lisa talks about being lost after her Dad passed away and two years later how she has come to a place of groundedness

Lyss – Music

Lyss remembers playing music for her mother as she was dying and how music has helped with feelings

Betsy – Mother’s day

Betsy shares her challenges around mother’s day when her adopted son died

Shannon – Growing through Grief

Shannon discusses post traumatic growth and how it can be an expectation

Kate – My story

Kate tells her story of being away when her brother died of an opioid overdose

Bryan – Mom

Bryan gives his mother credit for how well she raised her two sons after her husband was murdered

Hope – Waves of grief

Hope talks about the loss of her father and how grief comes in waves and how a therapist helped her understand that she had pushed her emotions down

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.

Krista – “Being uncomfortable”

Krista talks about taking risks. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Karyn and Aidan – Humour

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they use humour as a connection and a coping tool