Death of A Loved One

Weathering the Intense Emotions of Grief

Grief often comes with powerful, unpredictable emotional shifts that can be painful to experience. While it’s important to find ways to sit with these feelings, to acknowledge the pain of grief and accept loss, it’s also necessary to find ways to ease and manage the pain. There are several simple activities that you can explore to help.

Matt – Grief changes

Matt explains how he deals with his grief. Matt continues to grieve the death of his birth mother.

Lyss – Responsibilities

Lyss talks about her mother’s death, being the eldest and how it has effected the way she feels about responsibilities

John – Empower yourself

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

Betsy – Mother’s day

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

Hope – Camp for grief

Hope talks about the benefits of grief camp for her and her twin sister

Adam – Crying and singing

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

Krista – “My way of helping others”

Krista talks about reducing the stigma. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Bryan – The Three Fs

Bryan talks about the three cornerstones that he lives by …three f’s and how they support him in living a hopeful and positive life

Holly – Singing in the last days

Holly talks about her partner’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis, the pandemic, their decisions, faith and how singing

Adrianna – Finding out my brother had died by suicide

Adrianna relates how she heard about her brother’s suicide

Kate – Miracle baby

Kate shares about her brothers daughter being born after he had died