Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Maureen – “Group therapy vs individual therapy”

Maureen talks about what kind of counselling may work for you.

Amanda – “Reach out”

Amanda discusses the importance of connecting with others.

Maureen – “Carrying grief”

Maureen gives an analogy of how hard it is to carry griefMaureen gives an analogy of how hard it is to carry grief.

Rev. Sky – “Sharing”

Rev. Sky explains how sharing helps you heal.

Jen – “Releasing grief through yoga”

Jen discusses how some poses can help release stress.

Jen – “From funeral director to yoga for grief”

Jen talks about how being a funeral director and how yoga and grief became connected for her.

Grief, Exhaustion, & Rest

Many people consider grief to be a response to the death of a loved one, but we grieve so much more than that. Grief is an emotional response to loss of any kind. Both real or perceived loss can trigger the response. The loss of a job, a miscarriage, a breakup, losing a sentimental item,…

Collective Grief

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

Carrie – Thanatology

Carrie explains how thanatolgy is the study of death dying grief and loss.

Chantal – My Story

Chantal discusses finding a release in doing a graphic novel to explore her grief as a thesis in art therapy school

Janice – “Grief can be complicated”

Janice discusses disenfranchised grief and holding on to hurt.

Caileigh – Grief and child behaviour

Caileigh explains when a child experiences grief or a traumatic grief experience, there’s often behaviour that comes from that. Grief impacts behaviour. And sometimes it can be outward behaviour and sometimes it can be internalized behaviour. The good news about grief and behaviour is that it can be managed and supported through effective communication, through therapy and through coping strategies.