Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Jacqueline – Crying

Jacqueline talks about how grief is love and how crying is natural

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.

Marija – Types of Loss in a Pandemic

Marija explains how all of the losses we experience during a pandemic are compounded

Jacqueline – My Story

Jacqueline talks about getting through the feelings after her mother’s death

Claudia – Being stuck and art therapy

Claudia discusses remunating how art therapist can help create different positive perspectives

Donna – “Grief in conversation”

Donna discusses language and talking about grief.

Maureen – “Unresolved conflicts”

Maureen shares about her Dad, anger, love and some tools to manage unresolved conflicts.

Janice – “Pay attention to our feelings”

Janice discuss the importance of being aware of your feelings.

Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

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

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in grief

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

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.