Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Sara – Listening to music

Sara discusses how listening to music can help navigate loss

Maureen – “Anger”

Maureen talks about the power of anger and how to deal with it.

Jacqueline – Where to store art works

Jacqueline explains how art can be like journal entries that you would keep private

Marija – Acknowledging feelings

Marija talks about our tools for coping

Michele – Advice to younger grieving self

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving self

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.

Janice – “Grief is a response to loss”

Janice discusses waves of grief and how important it is to go with it.

Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

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

Nicole – Grieving as a community

Nicole discusses the power of grieving together as a community. Finding connection and trust.

Amanda – “Hospice like home”

Amanda discusses the value of feeling like being at home during palliative care.

Carrie – Thanatology

Carrie explains how thanatolgy is the study of death dying grief and loss.

Jen – “Releasing grief through yoga”

Jen discusses how some poses can help release stress.