Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Kristal – Attending Memorials as a Support Worker

Kristal discusses the importance of finding ways to honour people that have been lost and how they have impacted you. She speaks to how she often chooses not to attend public memorials for those she has lost as a support worker as they are often very overwhelming. Instead, she has her own personal rituals or ways of honouring those she has lost personally including opening a window. She discusses how this practice was used when she worked in palliative care.

Christian – “Overdose Death”

Christian talks about an overdose death not defining who that person was.

Professional Insights Playlist

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

Corrie – Grieving during a pandemic

Corrie discuss the grieving during a pandemic

Michael – “A story of loss and longing”

Michael relays a story of a man coping after the loss of his wife.

Maureen – Grief and Holidays

Maureen talks about feelings duing holidays

Maureen – “Your experience of loss is unique”

Maureen explains how your experience of grief is your own.

Caileigh – Through play children learn so much about their grief

Caileigh discussed how children learn so much about their grief through play. There’s less confusion, there’s less anxiety, there’s more awareness. For the child and the parent, there is more acceptance of grief.

Keith – “We need one another”

Keith talks about the importance of story, understanding our journey and how we are connected.

Janice – “Grief is a response to loss”

Janice discusses waves of grief and how important it is to go with it.

Weaving the Tapestry of Love

Learning to become a better person is a wonderful consequence of being in a loving relationship with someone; you’re present in ways that help them grow into their best self. It’s an organic process you flow with on a journey we map out with intention, though in reality, it remains unknowable. That is why a…

Caileigh – My own grief and supporting others

Caileigh tells about her own grief and now it has given her a really powerful lens on how to support children going through grief as well. Along with her professional education and training, there is now a different perspective on grief and how that fits in with supporting others.