Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Amanda – “Hospice like home”

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

Janice – “Let the feelings come up”

Janice talks about how it can help to let the feelings come up.

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.

Maureen – Grief and Holidays

Maureen talks about feelings duing holidays

Rev. Sky – “Helping a friend”

Rev. Sky discusses the grief motto 80% listening, 20% talking and how to help someone in grief.

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Sara – Music and celebration of life

Sara explains how music can play an importand and significant role in celebrations of life.

Christian – “When people say dumb things”

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

Maureen – “Unresolved conflicts”

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

Janice – “Crying”

Janice explains how crying helps physically and emotionally.

Claudia – My story

Claudia tells her story about art and grief

Claudia – Working with an art therapist

Claudia how all art making is theraputic and working with an art therapist amplifies the process in a positive way