Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Collective Grief

May 22, 2022

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

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Chantal – Anticipatory grief

August 5, 2022

Chantal defines antipatory grief and the grief before the physical loss

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Weathering the Intense Emotions of Grief

August 3, 2022

Grief often comes with powerful, unpredictable emotional shifts that can be painful to experience. While it’s important to find ways to sit with these feelings, to acknowledge the pain of grief and accept loss, it’s also necessary to find ways to ease and manage the pain. There are several simple activities that you can explore to help.

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Keith – “Timeframe for grief”

December 10, 2018

Keith explains it is never too late to grieve and there is no timeline.

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Christian – “When people say dumb things”

October 1, 2019

Christian explains how he deals with people who say dumb things.

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Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

March 14, 2022

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

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Claudia – Art and coping with grief and loss

August 2, 2022

Claudia talk about how art is especially beneficial for someone coping with grief and loss

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Jenn – In grief an art therapist can be there to walk with you

January 24, 2022

Jenn discusses how an art therapists can support you in those moments of pain. They are there to honour your stories and experiences.

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Jacqueline – Crying

August 26, 2022

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

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Sara – Listening to music

April 30, 2021

Sara discusses how listening to music can help navigate loss

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Katie “Ongoing Grief”

December 10, 2018

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

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Michele – Talks about being a death doula

March 14, 2022

Michele explains what death doula’s do. Doula means servant. They support people on many different levels… for instance, emotionally, spiritually and physically

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