Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

Zoreena talks about her father’s decline in a nursing home during COVID

Kim – Facebook and connecting

Kim – discussses our need to connect and how Facebook was useful after her Mum’s death

Adrianna – Pandemic, funerals and celebration of life

Adrianna talks about the death of her friend during pandemic

Lynda – “Helping a griever during the pandemic”

Lynda shares tips on helping someone in grief

Jessica M – A Parking Lot Memorial

Jessica shares how her family gathered after her uncle died during COVID and how her family came up with a creative way of getting together in a parking lot.

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in grief

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 – Support.

Karyn and Aidan discuss how much the support they received helped

Kate – COVID and grieving with my parents

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

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.

Kate – Time to process

Kate shares about time and processing her grief especially during COVID

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.