Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Jenn – What does an art therapist do

Jenn explains how art therapist use the creative process to help people make positive changes to improve their overall health and to enhance their well being

Adrianna – Triggers and the ball in the box analogy

Adrianna gives some great insights on how to deal with triggers

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.

Claudia – You do not have to be an artist to do art therapy

Claudia explains why you do not have to be an artist to benefit

Christian – “Stigma of opioid death”

Christian talks about the social acceptance of an opioid overdose.

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Marija – Permission to mourn

Marija discusses the value of being allowing yourself to mourn

Keith – “My story”

Keith tells his story and why he became a counsellor.

Maureen – “Grief is a messy non-linear place”

Maureen explains how you wind your way through grief and that is normal.

Caileigh – Wanting to fix a grieving child

Caileigh gives advice about the desire to fix, especially to parents who are grieving themselves as well as supporting children who are grieving.

Children’s Grief and Loss Toolkit (ages 6-12) [FREE Downloadable PDF]

Grief is a natural experience, and is considered one of the most stressful life events a person can experience. 1 in 14 children under the age of 18 will experience the death of someone close to them. Every year, approximately 200 000 children are grieving the death of someone in their extended family or community.…

Carrie – Thanatology

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