Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Zoreena – Support systems

Zoreena explains the importance of support systems

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Sunny- The Importance of Friends While Grieving

Jean – It’s all about love

Jean talks about losing her husband to a heart attack on valentines day

Nicole – Pandemic’s Effect on Safe Spaces and Mental Health Access

Nicole discusses how the pandemic affected access to safe spaces and shelters for those living rough and living with addiction.

Maureen – “Not being able to be with your loved one”

Maureen discusses ideas of how you can honour a loved now until it is safe to come together.

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

Zoreena – Passing on kindness

Zoreena talks about wakes, funerals, COVID and the importance of kindness

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.

Christian – COVID amplified the inequities in society

Christian talks about those that have very little and how COVID amplified their difficulties

Zoreena – Tribute

Zoreena talks about tributes, family, pulling together and not being able to have a funeral