Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Sara – Music and celebration of life

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

Preparing For and Coping with Special Days

Special Days can be days we have honoured with our loved ones that many others celebrate or more personal dates and milestones with your loved one. As these days approach, it can be difficult to figure out how to move through a Special Day. Do you do what you’ve always done? What do you do…

Claudia – Art, art as therapy and art therapy

Claudia discusses the definition of therapy and how art therapists are formally trained.

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Christian – “Stigma of opioid death”

Christian talks about the social acceptance of an opioid overdose.

Jean – My Story

Jean talks about isolation and grieving during a pandemic

Caleigh – Play Session

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

Donna – “Grief in conversation”

Donna discusses language and talking about grief.

Jen – “Releasing grief through yoga”

Jen discusses how some poses can help release stress.

Cara – Intellectual disabilities, sharing and expressing about grief

Cara discusses how it’s very important that people living with intellectual disabilities have the opportunity to not only know about the information about the person being ill and dying and having the choice and opportunity to go to after death rituals. It’s also really important that they get the opportunity to share their story in whatever way they communicate. This can be verbally through sign language, through communication books, art, music, going for walks, being in nature

Michael – “A story of loss and longing”

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

Rev. Sky – “Sharing”

Rev. Sky explains how sharing helps you heal.