Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Karyn and Aidan – Challenges with COVID restrictions

Karyn and Aidan discuss the COVID restrictions on visitations and how they managed

Michele – Normalizing conversations around death dying grief and loss

Michele discusses grief literacy, the importance of talking and that dying is a part of life

Sunny- Grieving Different Losses

Maureen – Compounded grief during a pandemic

Maureen discusses how grief can be compounded during a pandemic

Nicole – Stigma Surrounding Drug Use

Nicole discusses how the stigma around drug use has an impact on how people feel able to grieve when those in their community are lost.

Zoreena – My Story

Zoreena talks about COVID and the loss of her father and a cousin

Corrie – Grieving during a pandemic

Corrie discuss the grieving during a pandemic

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.

Andrea – Couples versus being single

Andrea talks about becoming single when her husband died

Adrianna – Pandemic, funerals and celebration of life

Adrianna talks about the death of her friend during pandemic

Michele – Covid and virtual support

MIchele discuss support and how COVID has affected our grief in so many waysort

Sunny- Grief and Maintaining Health