Death of A Loved One

Antoinetta – Story

January 26, 2023

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

Death of a Parent / My Story Video / Video

Katie – My Story

December 1, 2022

Katie shares about her story and losing her Dad to cancer during COVID

Death of a Parent / My Story Video / Video

Kate – Stigma

March 11, 2023

Kate discusses how difficult the stigma is to deal with

Death By Overdose / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Sibling / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic / I Am A Griever / Video

Holly – Befriending our mortality workshops

March 7, 2021

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

Death of a Partner / Video

Holly – The symbolic nature of death

March 7, 2021

Holly discusses doing art, the symbolic nature of urns and the denial of death

Death of a Partner / Video

Cheryl and Mike – “Grieving more than one person”

December 16, 2018

Mike and Cheryl discuss how it gets complicated with multiple losses. They continue to grieve Cheryl’s father and the death their daughter in a car accident.

Death of a Child / Death of a Parent / Grief and Trauma / Video

Shannon – Losing is a life skill

November 22, 2022

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.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Death of a Partner / Grief and Trauma / Suicide / Video

Jean – Helping your children through grief

April 1, 2022

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Partner / Video

Amber – My Story

June 8, 2021

Amber talks about the traumatic death of her father in an explosion and being 17

Death of a Parent / My Story Video / Video

Reflections on Mother’s Day

May 8, 2023

Mother’s day is a holiday where we show appreciation and care for the maternal roles in our lives. However, this holiday can feel very overwhelming for those of us who are grieving the death of a mother figure, a mother grieving their child, or those of us grieving the loss of not being able to become mothers ourselves.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Blog Post / Death of a Child / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Parent / I Am A Griever / Perinatal

Adam – Story 1

December 21, 2022

Adam shares about losing his Mom and the many wonderful things he remembers

Death of a Parent / I Am A Griever / My Story Video / Video

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

April 1, 2022

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

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Partner / Video