Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Collective Grief

May 22, 2022

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

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Rev. Sky – “It gets easier”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky talks about time and allowing emotion.

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Rev. Sky – “Weepies”

December 10, 2018

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

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Maureen – “Trust yourself”

October 17, 2019

Maureen talks about finding your own way in your healing process.

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Michael – “A story of loss and longing”

December 10, 2018

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

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There One Day and Gone the Next : Art Therapy and Grief

December 2, 2022

This blog post contains information about using art therapy to process grief, including specific examples.

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Ripples of Grief: Supporting Ourselves, Others, and our Communities After a Death

June 21, 2023

By Jessica Milette, MSW, RSW When death knocks on the door of a community, each of us are impacted. Sometimes a death will touch many lives across a community, whether people knew the deceased personally or not. We may grieve the death of a family member, friend, or acquaintance, a well-known community member, or someone…

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Janice – “Crying”

December 10, 2018

Janice explains how crying helps physically and emotionally.

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Cara – Defining Intellectual disabilities and grief

November 6, 2022

Cara discusses how grief literacy needs to be improved across the board for people with intellectual disabilities to learn more about grief, death and dying. There is a great need to include them in this natural, normal part of life that we’ll all experience.

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Maureen – “Grief can come back”

October 17, 2019

Maureen explains however grief comes back, you are OK.

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Maureen – “They are still your child”

October 17, 2019

Maureen explains how you find different ways of parenting.

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Rev. Sky – “If you have experienced sudden loss”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky discusses things you can do to help navigate emotions.

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