Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Preparing For and Coping with Special Days

December 13, 2024

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…

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Madelyn – Rituals and the Chinese grieving process

July 8, 2021

Madelyn talks about expressing your grief in Chinese cultures and how rituals are a war of grieving providing comfort

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Janice – “Grieving alone”

December 10, 2018

Janice discusses grieving alone and when its important to have people around you that can listen and understand what you are feeling.

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Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

March 14, 2022

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving selfMichele talks about coping that since being a child how creativity helped

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Reflections on Mother’s Day

May 8, 2023

Mother’s day is a holiday where we show appreciation and care for the maternal roles in our lives. However, this holiday can feel very overwhelming for those of us who are grieving the death of a mother figure, a mother grieving their child, or those of us grieving the loss of not being able to become mothers ourselves.

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Janice – “Grieving as long as you need to grieve”

December 10, 2018

Janice talks about her personal grief experiences and understanding the need for grieving as long as you need to.

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Grief, Breastfeeding, and Care

September 30, 2024

In this essay, I share a bit about my story of grief and breastfeeding. I also share some thoughts about the cultural grief some people are carrying about the lack of support afforded to lactating families whose goal it is to feed their baby from their body. I use some gendered language throughout this essay…

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Jessica M – Grief is unique for each person

June 13, 2023

Jessica discusses our uniquenesses during grief, giving yourself permission to grieve and that there are many ways of self care during grief.

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Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

August 2, 2022

Claudia talks about why sometimes not to take your art home after therapy

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Madelyn – Grieving process as a 2nd generation Canadian

July 8, 2021

Madelyn talks about being a 2nd generation Canadian, some things she has learend working in palliative care as a music therapist

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Michele – Talks about being a death doula

March 14, 2022

Michele explains what death doula’s do. Doula means servant. They support people on many different levels… for instance, emotionally, spiritually and physically

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Professional Insights Playlist

July 6, 2020

Listen to the thoughts and insights of professionals helping people and families to cope with grief.

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