Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Marija – Acknowledging feelings

Marija talks about our tools for coping

Chantal – Anticipatory grief

Chantal defines antipatory grief and the grief before the physical loss

Caileigh – Through play children learn so much about their grief

Caileigh discussed how children learn so much about their grief through play. There’s less confusion, there’s less anxiety, there’s more awareness. For the child and the parent, there is more acceptance of grief.

Jacqueline – Art Therapy & Grief

Jacqueline discusses about art therapy and how it brings a special layer to help move through grief

Chantal – What is art therapy?

Chantal explains how art therapy helps us express in ways that words can’t

Janice – “The importance of listening”

Janice explains the importance of not being judgemental and listening when helping someone is in grief.

Janice – “Photographs”

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

Jacqueline – How to help a grieving friend

Jacqueline discusses the power of just being there with someone in grief

Cara – Defining Intellectual disabilities and grief

Cara discusses how grief literacy needs to be improved across the board for people with intellectual disabilities to learn more about grief, death and dying. There is a great need to include them in this natural, normal part of life that we’ll all experience.

Rev. Sky – “It gets easier”

Rev. Sky talks about time and allowing emotion.

Sara – Music at the end of life

Sara talks about the values of music at the end of life

Craig – How men process grief

Craig talks about his personal story of grief and how he learned to process his emotions in a healthy way. He discusses the challenges that men face when grieving, and offers advice on how to find healthy ways to cope with loss.Craig lost his wife, his mother, his job, and his home in a short period of time. He describes how he felt pressured to be stoic and strong for others, and how this made it difficult for him to grieve. He eventually realized that it was important to allow himself to feel his emotions, even the difficult ones.Craig shares some of the things that helped him to process his grief, such as talking to a therapist, writing in a journal, and spending time in nature. He also emphasizes the importance of finding support from friends and family. This video is a powerful and moving story of how one man found healing after experiencing a series of devastating losses. It is an important reminder that grief is a normal and healthy emotion, and that there are healthy ways to cope with it.