Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Shannon – Power of Presence

November 22, 2022

Shannon discusses how just showing up, being present is a powerful way of supporting to someone who has lost. Listen more – talk less.

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Weathering the Intense Emotions of Grief

August 3, 2022

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.

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Madelyn – Advice to younger self

July 8, 2021

Madelyn discusses how having feelings is a gift and you can work through tough ones. There is hope.

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Amanda – “Hospice”

December 10, 2018

Amanda talks about the comfort zone in palliative care.

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Christian – “Growth out of pain”

October 1, 2019

Christian tells about how grief changes and we grow.

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Janice – “The importance of listening”

December 10, 2018

Janice explains the importance of not being judgemental and listening when helping someone is in grief.

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Jacqueline – You don’t have to be an artist

August 26, 2022

Jacqueline discusses how in art therapy we tap into that child in all of us that is not concerned about what is right or wrong

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Jenn – Art can be grounding and meditative

January 24, 2022

Jenn explains how the textures , qualities and colours of art can be grounding and meditative

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Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

June 2, 2021

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

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Maureen – Holiday kindness and grief

December 21, 2020

Maureen discusses grieving during the holidays and being lifter up by kindness

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Rev. Sky – “Feeling numb”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky discusses how feeling numb is a normal emotion and what you need to move forward.

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Left Out: Enfranchising Children’s Grief and Loss

August 13, 2025

By: Jessica Milette, MSW, RSW All human beings have the capacity to grieve: people with intellectual disabilities, those living with a traumatic brain injury, and children of all ages. However, many people can experience disenfranchised grief when someone dies. Disenfranchised grief is generally grief that is not usually openly acknowledged, socially accepted or publicly mourned.…

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