Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Keith – “Hope”

Keith talks about time, healing and hope.

Jean – Be good to yourself

Jean shares about support and not being hard on yourself

Carrie – Validation

Carrie talks about validation and feeling that someone is full responsive and fully present to you and what is going on in your grief… feeling “felt”

Janice – “Photographs”

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

Donna – “Helping a grieving friend”

Donna shares some practical ways to help someone in grief.

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Sara – Creating music

Sara explains how creating music can be a part of the grieving process

Sara – Music and grief

Sara discusses how music can connect and help by acknowledging grief and bringing comfort

Amanda – “No person is an island”

Amanda talks about the power of community and the importance of reaching out.

Janice – “Pay attention to our feelings”

Janice discuss the importance of being aware of your feelings.

Christian – “Grief can shape you”

Christian talks about realizing the impact grief has.

Christian – “Stigma of opioid death”

Christian talks about the social acceptance of an opioid overdose.