Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jane – Remembering loved ones

Jane talks about some ways she remembers her grandparents since her passing and the comfort that brings her as she grieves for them.

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in grief

When Death Feels like a Thief

In the heart of my grief, at my frailest, all I could see was what was no more. I grieved all that was stolen from me by death; love, security and even my very self. Had I known the value of having every pocket of who I was, picked bare by grief, I would not have fought so hard to hold onto it all.

Karyn and Aidan – Coping with the COVID restrictions

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they dealt with not being able to visit John in hospital

Michele – Covid and virtual support

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

Collective Grief

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

Christian – Grieving the whole person

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

Karyn and Aidan – The what if game and guilt

Karyn and Aidan explain how they have dealt with guilt

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

Laura- What Might Help in Grief

Karyn and Aidan – Grief changes

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