Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Sara – Listening to music

Sara discusses how listening to music can help navigate loss

Jen – “Releasing grief through yoga”

Jen discusses how some poses can help release stress.

Cheryl – “My story” short version

Cheryl talks about her daughter’s organ donations.

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.

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

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.

Corrie – Getting comfortable with discomfort

Corrie talks about being comfortable and uncomfortable with grief

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Jacqueline – Crying

Jacqueline talks about how grief is love and how crying is natural

Maureen – “They are still your child”

Maureen explains how you find different ways of parenting.

Janice – “Let the feelings come up”

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

Madelyn – Advice to younger self

Madelyn discusses how having feelings is a gift and you can work through tough ones. There is hope.