I Am A Griever

Things That Helped When My Dog Was Dying

I lived with a dog named Althea, who belonged to my roommate, during my undergrad. Every year, my partner, our roommate, and I would go to a summer solstice festival. The year Althea was pregnant, my roommate brought her to the festival. The first night there, he retired to his tent to nap in preparation…

John – Lasagna

John talks about the “widower’s meal”… Lasagna, and learning how to cook for his daughters after his wife died

John – What to do now

John talks about the time after the initial period of grief

Adam – Crying and singing

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

Kate – Time to process

Kate shares about time and processing her grief especially during COVID

Kate – My story

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

Craig – Resilience in the Face of Adversity

Craig how he overcame a series of challenges, including the loss of his marriage, his job, and his home. He talks about how he found the strength to keep going and how he learned to be more resilient.

Kate – Stigma

Kate discusses how difficult the stigma is to deal with

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

Adam – Story 2

Adam discusses his busy life and how he has coped after losing his mother

Joyce- Learning to live with grief

Joyce shares a story of support from a friend and how she managed in her early grief

Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child

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