Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Maureen – “My miscarriages and attachment”

Maureen tells about her miscarriages, attachment and understanding why she felt so terrible.

Amanda – “The Little Things”

Amanda talks about how little things can be a huge gift during palliative care.

Cheryl – “My story” short version

Cheryl talks about her daughter’s organ donations.

Madelyn – Holding space

Madelyn explains how holding space can help anyone in grief

Jen – “Yoga for grief”

Jen discusses how yoga can help release stress and give you strength to help deal with the circumstances you need to deal with.

Keith – “Disenfranchised Grief”

Keith describes disenfranchised grief.

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

Jenn – Art can give a break from grieving

Jenn talks about one of the most overlooked benefits of making art during bereavement. It can provide and escape from your grief.

There One Day and Gone the Next : Art Therapy and Grief

This blog post contains information about using art therapy to process grief, including specific examples.

Cara – Grief and intellectual disabilities is a topic that needs to “get out there”

Cara shares some information from a participant in her research on intellectual disabilities and the bereaved. A person with an intellectual disability said… “Grief: It’s a topic that needs to get out there” Grief is something that so many people are hesitant to talk about, to display, to show, because there’s so many social rules around how we grieve. This is particularily challenging for the intellectually disabled.

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Chantal – Anticipatory grief

Chantal defines antipatory grief and the grief before the physical loss