Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

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.

Adrianna – Metabolizing grief

Adrianna explains metabolizing grief and grief literacy training

Jessica M – Legacy

Jessica explains legacy and gives examples including her own.

Jen – “Yoga for grief”

Jen discusses how yoga can help release stress and give you strength to help deal with the circumstances you need to deal with.

Maureen – “Your experience of loss is unique”

Maureen explains how your experience of grief is your own.

Maureen – “Peer vs professional support”

Maureen talks about getting help and what is right for you.

Corrie – Pandemic of grief

Corrie discusses how much grief there is

Jessica M – It’s OK not to cry

Jessica discusses how grief is individual and finding the way forward can be different for everyone.

Shannon – Growing through Grief

Shannon discusses post traumatic growth and how it can be an expectation

Donna – “Living with grief”

Donna talks about the threads of grief and her personal experience.

Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

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

Caileigh – A safe place to grow and heal

Caileigh talks about how accessing play therapy can support everybody. When children have that safe place to heal, everybody around them feels good and can heal, too.