Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Nicole – Power of Speaking About Lost Ones

Nicole discusses the importance of sharing memories of those lost to drug poisoning and speaking their names.

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

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.

John Martin – Loss, Grief and Covid-19

John discusses loss and COVID

Zoreena – Support systems

Zoreena explains the importance of support systems

Michele – Covid and support

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in griefMIchele talks about COVID restrictions, technology and ways to support

Marija – Types of Loss in a Pandemic

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

Christian – Autonomy for the homeless

Christian discusses those who are unhoused and how they want a space that is theirs and how we need to take that seriously especially when it comes to grief

Kate – Time to process

Kate shares about time and processing her grief especially during COVID

Kim – Self care

Kim talks about looking after yourself and how much it helps. In particular be kind to yourself

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Sharron “Grieving During the Pandemic”

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