Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Shannon – Growing through Grief

Shannon discusses post traumatic growth and how it can be an expectation

Carrie – Thanatology

Carrie explains how thanatolgy is the study of death dying grief and loss.

Caileigh – Grief and child behaviour

Caileigh explains when a child experiences grief or a traumatic grief experience, there’s often behaviour that comes from that. Grief impacts behaviour. And sometimes it can be outward behaviour and sometimes it can be internalized behaviour. The good news about grief and behaviour is that it can be managed and supported through effective communication, through therapy and through coping strategies.

Madelyn – The power of music

Madelyn – discusses the potency of music and processing good and bad memories

Caileigh – A safe place to grow and heal

Caileigh talks about how accessing play therapy can support everybody. When children have that safe place to heal, everybody around them feels good and can heal, too.

Sara – My Story

Sara talks about why she became a music therapist, espression and connecting to feelings

Maureen – “Pregnancy and infant loss”

Maureen explains how pregnancy and infant loss is often misunderstood or underestimated.

Jeff K – “What is grief”

Jeff discusses the many aspects of grief and how we are all connected. Jeff continues to grieve the death of his mother.

Maureen – “Carrying grief”

Maureen gives an analogy of how hard it is to carry griefMaureen gives an analogy of how hard it is to carry grief.

Janice – “Go into feelings”

Janice explains how important it is to pay attention to your feelings.

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

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

Caileigh – Wanting to fix a grieving child

Caileigh gives advice about the desire to fix, especially to parents who are grieving themselves as well as supporting children who are grieving.