Death of A Loved One

Kate – Trust and listening

Kate – explains how having someone you trust is super important so that you can have a space space to go to

Karyn and Aidan – Humour

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

Katie – Getting stronger

Katie talks losing her mother when she was young and how the experience helped her when she lost her Dad

Kate – Things I do that help

Kate talks about how art, hiking and visiting the cemetery can be very therapeutic

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

Adrianna – Finding out my brother had died by suicide

Adrianna relates how she heard about her brother’s suicide

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

Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child

Joyce shares about how she has felt as a mother who lost a child

Scott – The grieving process

Scott talks about how his song ‘The Good Man James” was about his father, their relationship and how it helped him process their relationship. Find the song at his website www.dotbmusic.ca

Andrea – Grieving during a pandemic

Andrea discusses the challenges of grieving during a pandemic

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.

Mary S – The value of writing

Mary talks about how much writing has helped inlcuding writing what her partner would have said