Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Caleigh – Play Session

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

Michele – Covid and virtual support

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

Caileigh – Sharing grief experience to spread hope and kindness

Caileigh talks about taking the opportunity to share her personal and professional grief experiences as a way to spread hope and to spread kindness.

Rev. Sky – “The grief tunnel”

Rev. Sky talks about going forward and growing in the grief process.

Keith – “We need one another”

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

Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

Calls to Care, Calls to Action: Bearing Witness to Global Catastrophic Loss of Life and Traumatic Events

We bear witness to stories of mass loss of lives, stories of families in Gaza being forced from their land, loss of culture and traditions, and countless other ways systems of colonization and oppression can contribute to other non-death losses those who are directly affected currently and have historically faced. As we discussed in a previous article, we can also experience collective grief following natural disasters, accidents, international conflict, and acts of violence that have resulted in catastrophic loss of lives.

Sara – Music and celebration of life

Sara explains how music can play an importand and significant role in celebrations of life.

Rev. Sky – “Weepies”

Rev. Sky talks about weepies, that they are OK and how to deal with them.

Amanda – “No person is an island”

Amanda talks about the power of community and the importance of reaching out.

Claudia – Art and coping with grief and loss

Claudia talk about how art is especially beneficial for someone coping with grief and loss

Alongside

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.