Grief, Breastfeeding, and Care

Keith – “Disenfranchised Grief”

December 10, 2018

Keith describes disenfranchised grief.

Jessica M – A Parking Lot Memorial

June 13, 2023

Jessica shares how her family gathered after her uncle died during COVID and how her family came up with a creative way of getting together in a parking lot.

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.

Jacqueline – It’s an Honour

August 26, 2022

Jacqueline explains why it’s an honour to be a part of her clients healing journey

Chantal – Giving space

August 5, 2022

Chantal discusses how it is good and honouring to the one you’ve lost to give space and feel everything

Marija – Acknowledging feelings

June 2, 2021

Marija talks about our tools for coping

Madelyn – Rituals and the Chinese grieving process

July 8, 2021

Madelyn talks about expressing your grief in Chinese cultures and how rituals are a war of grieving providing comfort

Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

March 14, 2022

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving selfMichele talks about coping that since being a child how creativity helped

Caileigh – Advice to my younger self about grief

February 23, 2023

Caileigh talks about things that you can do to balance out feelings that it’s okay to experience all of the big feelings that you have, to find joy in little moments, and to find ways that you can cope with those big feelings.

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

Janice – “Photographs”

December 10, 2018

Janice explains how photographs can be a doorway to help move forward.