Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Caleigh – Play Session

Caileigh discusses child play sessions, how children can learn about confusing feelings of grief and ways to cope.

Jenn – Art can be grounding and meditative

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

Marija – The wilderness of grief

Marija discussed acknowedging all aspects of grief and living with grief.

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Jean – My Story

Jean talks about isolation and grieving during a pandemic

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Craig – How men process grief

Craig talks about his personal story of grief and how he learned to process his emotions in a healthy way. He discusses the challenges that men face when grieving, and offers advice on how to find healthy ways to cope with loss.Craig lost his wife, his mother, his job, and his home in a short period of time. He describes how he felt pressured to be stoic and strong for others, and how this made it difficult for him to grieve. He eventually realized that it was important to allow himself to feel his emotions, even the difficult ones.Craig shares some of the things that helped him to process his grief, such as talking to a therapist, writing in a journal, and spending time in nature. He also emphasizes the importance of finding support from friends and family. This video is a powerful and moving story of how one man found healing after experiencing a series of devastating losses. It is an important reminder that grief is a normal and healthy emotion, and that there are healthy ways to cope with it.

Shannon – Enough

Shannon talks about us all doing the very best we can from the perspectives of a licensed clinical counselor and losing her husband to suicide.

Maureen – “Our first miscarriage”

Maureen shares insights about her miscarriages.

Michele – Covid and virtual support

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

Janice – “It’s never too late to grieve”

Janice talks about the importance of noticing feelings.

Jacqueline – Crying

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