Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Sara – Listening to music

Sara discusses how listening to music can help navigate loss

Christian – “Remembering together in a meaningful way”

Christian discusses the power of memories.

Infant & Reproductive Loss Toolkit [Free Downloadable PDFs for Individuals and Professionals]

Navigating life, death, and loss can be overwhelming. Mental health professionals designed this toolkit for individuals, parents, caregivers, and families navigating perinatal and reproductive loss. Reactions to pregnancy and reproductive loss are as unique as fingerprints. Some can process the experience relatively quickly, while others experience unrelenting pain and grief. We hope that this toolkit…

Grief & Drug Poisoning Toolkit [Free Downloadable PDF]

  Navigating life, death, and loss can be overwhelming. This toolkit is designed by mental health professionals and contains information about grief, different types of grief we may experience, gentle reminders on how to move through grief, as well as tips for those who may be supporting someone in their life who is grieving. This…

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.

Maureen – “Anger”

Maureen talks about the power of anger and how to deal with it.

Maureen – Holiday Traditions

Maureen talks about anticipating a holiday and considering honouring a loved one

Rev. Sky – “It gets easier”

Rev. Sky talks about time and allowing emotion.

Madelyn – Holding space

Madelyn explains how holding space can help anyone in grief

Amanda – “It’s a gift to love someone”

Amanda talks about grief and it’s connection to love.

Janice – “Let the feelings come up”

Janice talks about how it can help to let the feelings come up.

Jessica M – A Parking Lot Memorial

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.