Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Kate – COVID and grieving with my parents

Kate shares about how COVID was stress on top of dealing with the loss of her brother

Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

Maureen – Palliative during the pandemic

Maureen lost her father in law during the pandemic

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

Maureen – Funeral during the pandemic

Maureen talks about funeral arrangements during a pandemic

Michele – Covid and support

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in griefMIchele talks about COVID restrictions, technology and ways to support

Michele – My Story

MIchele talks about her multiple losses starting from when she was very young

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.

Lynda – “Zoom and the importance of connecting”

Lynda discusses why it’s important to stay connected and how you can do it.

Learning from Grief

Grief is weird. Odd start, I know, but that was the sentence I used a lot whenever someone asked me how I was. It was never a constant feeling; it changed day to day. And still does. It’s the full gambit of emotions from sadness to anger to guilt and, though dark, even humour found its way in.

Kate – Triggers

Kate discusses how she deals with her emotions when something triggers her grief

Christian – Grieving the whole person

Christian talks about how we choose remember people when there has been a loss to drug poisoning