What Does Grief Support Look Like?

Amanda – “Listening”

December 10, 2018

Amanda shares the importance of listening and being comfortable with silence.

Madelyn – The power of music

July 8, 2021

Madelyn – discusses the potency of music and processing good and bad memories

Cara – Grief and intellectual disabilities is a topic that needs to “get out there”

November 6, 2022

Cara shares some information from a participant in her research on intellectual disabilities and the bereaved. A person with an intellectual disability said… “Grief: It’s a topic that needs to get out there” Grief is something that so many people are hesitant to talk about, to display, to show, because there’s so many social rules around how we grieve. This is particularily challenging for the intellectually disabled.

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

October 17, 2019

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

Jen – “Grief yoga”

December 10, 2018

Jen talks about how yoga may be beneficial.

Rev. Sky – “Feeling numb”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky discusses how feeling numb is a normal emotion and what you need to move forward.

Maureen – “Our first miscarriage”

October 17, 2019

Maureen shares insights about her miscarriages.

Jenn – What does an art therapist do

January 24, 2022

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

Rev. Sky – “What is trauma?”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky discusses how trauma affects us on many levels.

Maureen – “They are still your child”

October 17, 2019

Maureen explains how you find different ways of parenting.

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.