Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Caileigh – Parent Capacity

February 23, 2023

Caileigh discusses parent capacity and and how to support their child through their grief is all about inspiring them and empowering them so that they can help their child.

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Maureen – “If someone you know has experienced pregnancy & infant loss”

October 17, 2019

Maureen explains practical tools to help someone who is grieving.

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Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

March 14, 2022

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

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What Does Grief Support Look Like?

July 20, 2022

When we experience significant, on-going symptoms of grief that interfere with our adjustment to the reality of our loss, it can be time to seek professional help. It can be difficult to know where to find help and what grief support options are available.

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Maureen – “Grief is a messy non-linear place”

October 17, 2019

Maureen explains how you wind your way through grief and that is normal.

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Caileigh – A safe place to grow and heal

February 23, 2023

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.

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Jean – Helping your children through grief

April 1, 2022

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

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Professional Insights Playlist

July 6, 2020

Listen to the thoughts and insights of professionals helping people and families to cope with grief.

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Jenn – What an art therapist can show us about processing grief

January 24, 2022

Jenn talks about how art can give a form to grief. It can give it shape and texture so it can be seen when it is often so invisible. It can also be messy which so like our grief experience

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Rev. Sky – “Trauma, grief, and loss, sudden death”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky introduces herself and explains why she is in these videos.

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Rev. Sky – “Feeling stuck”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky describes being stuck and shifting.

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Alongside

February 8, 2023

That is also our best, and only role, when supporting a person with a developmental disability to grieve. We must be the one that comes alongside. There is no closer place we can get to. We must be present, be with, perhaps not understanding or comprehending what the person we support is experiencing, but alongside them nonetheless. We must be there, ready to provide whatever we can discover of their unique need in grief.

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