Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Grief Busting Zine [Downloadable!]

This zine is designed by mental health professionals and contains information about grief, different types of grief we may experience, gentle reminders on how to move through grief, as well as tips for those who may be supporting someone in their life who is grieving.

Corrie – We cry because we love

Corrie talks about crying, hurt and love

Kristal – Attending Memorials as a Support Worker

Kristal discusses the importance of finding ways to honour people that have been lost and how they have impacted you. She speaks to how she often chooses not to attend public memorials for those she has lost as a support worker as they are often very overwhelming. Instead, she has her own personal rituals or ways of honouring those she has lost personally including opening a window. She discusses how this practice was used when she worked in palliative care.

Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

Claudia talks about why sometimes not to take your art home after therapy

Janice – “It’s hard work”

Janice explains that hard work is necessary to reach the calm and peace.

Jenn – Art can give voice

Jenn talks about the barriers that may prevent someone from including art as part of their grief or emotional process including judgment of your art skills and more.

Weaving the Tapestry of Love

Learning to become a better person is a wonderful consequence of being in a loving relationship with someone; you’re present in ways that help them grow into their best self. It’s an organic process you flow with on a journey we map out with intention, though in reality, it remains unknowable. That is why a…

Jenn – What does an art therapist do

Jenn explains how art therapist use the creative process to help people make positive changes to improve their overall health and to enhance their well being

Michele – Covid and virtual support

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

Christian – “Growth out of pain”

Christian tells about how grief changes and we grow.

Jacqueline – Crying

Jacqueline talks about how grief is love and how crying is natural

Claudia – Being stuck and art therapy

Claudia discusses remunating how art therapist can help create different positive perspectives