Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Lynda – “Guilt during a time of crisis”

Lynda discusses how to deal with guilt.

Maureen – Isolated in a nursing home

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

Sunny- Grieving Different Losses

Zoreena – Ask for help

Zoreena explains how important it is to ask for help

Michele – Covid and virtual support

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

Zoreena – Tribute

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

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.

Sharron “Grieving During the Pandemic”

Sharron talks about how Covid-19 has really affected and disrupted the way people are grieving.

What I know about grief

The following are some things I know to be true about grief for me, based on my lived experience. Some of them may resonate with you as well. Grief is unique to the people experiencing it in each moment, so please take whatever makes sense to you from this share and leave whatever doesn’t.

Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

Christian – Grieving the whole person

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