Death and Grief During a Pandemic

Jane – Sitting in our feelings

Jane – Sitting in our feelings

Jane shares how she has learned to be more present in her feelings while grieving during the pandemic.

Jane – What processing grief during the pandemic may look like

Jane talks about how the pandemic has postponed a lot of “firsts” without her grandparents that have impacted her experience of moving through grief.

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

Sunny- Grieving Different Losses

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.

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

Jean shares about being a counselor and going through her own grief

Lynda – “The importance of getting professional help”

Lynda discusses the many ways professionals can help.

John Martin – Loss, Grief and Covid-19

John discusses loss and COVID

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

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

Sunny- Supporting My Grieving Mom

Jessica M – A Parking Lot Memorial

Jessica shares how her family gathered after her uncle died during COVID and how her family came up with a creative way of getting together in a parking lot.

Kate – Time to process

Kate shares about time and processing her grief especially during COVID