Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Janice – “Grieving as long as you need to grieve”

Janice talks about her personal grief experiences and understanding the need for grieving as long as you need to.

Left Out: Enfranchising Children’s Grief and Loss

By: Jessica Milette, MSW, RSW All human beings have the capacity to grieve: people with intellectual disabilities, those living with a traumatic brain injury, and children of all ages. However, many people can experience disenfranchised grief when someone dies. Disenfranchised grief is generally grief that is not usually openly acknowledged, socially accepted or publicly mourned.…

Jacqueline – Crying

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

Caileigh – Through play children learn so much about their grief

Caileigh discussed how children learn so much about their grief through play. There’s less confusion, there’s less anxiety, there’s more awareness. For the child and the parent, there is more acceptance of grief.

Christian – “Overdose Death”

Christian talks about an overdose death not defining who that person was.

Jenn – Barriers to art

Jenn talks about the barriers that may prevent someone from including art as part of their grief or emotional process including judgment of your art skills and more.

Chantal – Anticipatory grief

Chantal defines antipatory grief and the grief before the physical loss

Rev. Sky – “The grief tunnel”

Rev. Sky talks about going forward and growing in the grief process.

Corrie – Pandemic of grief

Corrie discusses how much grief there is

Chantal – You don’t have to be an artist to take part in art therapy

Chantal explains that you don’t have to be an artist to participate in art therapy and acutally if you have less art experience you will enjoy it more.

Michele – My Story

MIchele talks about her multiple losses starting from when she was very young

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