Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Keith – “Knowing what to say”

December 10, 2018

Keith gives practical advice about helping someone in grief.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Supporting Others / Video

Thoughts on International Overdose Awareness Day 2023

August 30, 2023

We lead multifaceted lives, and the deaths of those we love who have died by drug poisoning contain multitudes. The death of a loved one can bring intense grief, shock, anger, shame, or guilt. People who use drugs, and those who love them that they leave behind, face stigma in North America’s dominant, settler culture.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Blog Post / Collective/Community Grief / Death By Overdose / Drug Poisoning and the Pandemic

Christian – “Grief can shape you”

October 8, 2019

Christian talks about realizing the impact grief has.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Grief and Trauma / Video

Infant & Reproductive Loss Toolkit [Free Downloadable PDFs for Individuals and Professionals]

October 2, 2024

Navigating life, death, and loss can be overwhelming. Mental health professionals designed this toolkit for individuals, parents, caregivers, and families navigating perinatal and reproductive loss. Reactions to pregnancy and reproductive loss are as unique as fingerprints. Some can process the experience relatively quickly, while others experience unrelenting pain and grief. We hope that this toolkit…

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Blog Post / Collective/Community Grief / Death of a Child / I Am A Griever / I Am A Professional / I Am A Supporter / Perinatal / Supporting Others / Toolkits

Janice – “Grieving alone”

December 10, 2018

Janice discusses grieving alone and when its important to have people around you that can listen and understand what you are feeling.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Video

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.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Blog Post / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death By Overdose / Death of A Loved One / Perinatal / Suicide

Jacqueline – You don’t have to be an artist

August 26, 2022

Jacqueline discusses how in art therapy we tap into that child in all of us that is not concerned about what is right or wrong

Art / Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Video

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

Art / Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Video

Keith – “Difference between grief and mourning”

December 10, 2018

Keith explains how grief is internal and mourning is external.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Video

Donna – “Grief in conversation”

December 10, 2018

Donna discusses language and talking about grief.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Collective/Community Grief / Video

Cara – Intellectual disabilities and advance planning

November 6, 2022

Cara explains that people living with intellectual disabilities are growing to older ages, much like the rest of the population. And as folks are aging what we’re seeing is the need for families more so than ever, to do some advanced planning for who will take over any caregiving decision making or where that person may live, what sort of support they may need and what that’s going to look like after the parents or the guardians die so that this doesn’t become a crisis situation.

Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Supporting Others / Video

Jenn – Barriers to art

January 24, 2022

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.

Art / Bereavement Professionals' Insights / Video