Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Marija – Types of Loss in a Pandemic

Marija explains how all of the losses we experience during a pandemic are compounded

Karyn and Aidan – Grief changes

Karyn and Aidan talk about how grief changes, coping, strength, crying, talking, comfort and support

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.

Michele – Covid and virtual support

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

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

Corrie – Grieving during a pandemic

Corrie discuss the grieving during a pandemic

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Kate – COVID and grieving with my parents

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

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

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.

Kim – Support at the hospital

Kim discusses how tough COVID made the hospital experience and the support she received

Maureen – Isolated in a nursing home

Maureen talks about her father-in-law isolated and palliative during the pandemic