Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Keith – “Grief at any age”

Keith discusses grief and age.

Carrie – Grief and creativity

Carrie talks about creativity and expressing grief and loss… that in many ways can offer insight and comfort for those who are grieving

Carrie – Creating a photo narrative

Carrie explains how photography can give insight and express things that there reallhy aren’t words for. Photography can be one addtitional way in which to express and capture those moments of our sorrow, grief and pain as well as transformation and healing

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

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

Caileigh – Grief and child behaviour

Caileigh explains when a child experiences grief or a traumatic grief experience, there’s often behaviour that comes from that. Grief impacts behaviour. And sometimes it can be outward behaviour and sometimes it can be internalized behaviour. The good news about grief and behaviour is that it can be managed and supported through effective communication, through therapy and through coping strategies.

Shannon – Growing through Grief

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

Janice – “Photographs”

Janice explains how photographs can be a doorway to help move forward.

Jen – “From funeral director to yoga for grief”

Jen talks about how being a funeral director and how yoga and grief became connected for her.

Amanda – “Hospice”

Amanda talks about the comfort zone in palliative care.

Keith – “We need one another”

Keith talks about the importance of story, understanding our journey and how we are connected.

Janice – “Own our feelings”

Janice discusses the goals of emotional work and arriving at a peaceful place.

Maureen – “Milestones and anniversaries”

Maureen talks about loss and what happens over time.