Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Madelyn -Healing and support group for Asian Canadian women

Madelyn discusses the value in having your voice heard

Jacqueline – Art therapy and grieving women

Jacqueline explains how helping connect to the heart and reslience with art therapy can be very helpful

Maureen – “Grief is a messy non-linear place”

Maureen explains how you wind your way through grief and that is normal.

Claudia – You do not have to be an artist to do art therapy

Claudia explains why you do not have to be an artist to benefit

Christian – “Stigma of opioid death”

Christian talks about the social acceptance of an opioid overdose.

Christian – “Grief can shape you”

Christian talks about realizing the impact grief has.

Rev. Sky – “What is a trigger”

Rev. Sky explains triggers, identifying them and what you need.

Rev. Sky – “Why”

Rev. Sky talks about the question of why and how to look beyond it.

Jacqueline – Where to store art works

Jacqueline explains how art can be like journal entries that you would keep private

Christian – “Grief can bring new life”

Christian explains where he found hope in grief.

Cara – Intellectual disabilities and advance planning

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.

Cheryl – “What is grief”

Cheryl defines grief and talks about how we all grieve differently.