Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jane – Grief and yoga

March 30, 2022

Jane shares about the impact yoga, and moving her body in general, on her mental health while she processes grief.

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Tips for Grieving During the Holidays

December 23, 2022

The holidays can bring up a lot of feelings, especially when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. Whether it’s the first holiday season without someone, the holidays mark a time where someone you love died, or it’s just hard to be around celebration when you’re not feeling celebratory, December can feel heavy.

These are a few tips for grieving during the holidays.

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Maureen – “Permission to mourn”

April 17, 2020

Maureen explains about grief being valid and how important it is to look after yourself.

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Lynda – “Old age home and guilt”

May 15, 2020

Lynda discusses how hard it is during the pandemic to have a loved on in an old age home

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Michele – Talks about being a death doula

March 14, 2022

Michele explains what death doula’s do. Doula means servant. They support people on many different levels… for instance, emotionally, spiritually and physically

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Jane – My Story

March 30, 2022

Jane shares her story about losing two of her grandparents just before the pandemic and the ways the pandemic has impacted her ability to process grief.

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Nicole – Pandemic Leads to Increase in Drug Poisoning

March 25, 2023

Nicole discusses the increase in drug poisonings during the pandemic due to a number of factors.

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What I know about grief

May 29, 2022

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.

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Maureen – End stages during a pandemic

October 1, 2020

Maureen talks about the end stages of her father-in-law during the pandemic.

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Learning from Grief

December 7, 2022

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.

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Andrea – My Story

March 26, 2022

Andrea shares her story of losing her husband during a pandemic

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Sunny- Grief and Maintaining Health

February 23, 2022
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