Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Sara – Music at the end of life

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

Corrie – Getting comfortable with discomfort

Corrie talks about being comfortable and uncomfortable with grief

Jean – Be good to yourself

Jean shares about support and not being hard on yourself

Chantal – What is art therapy?

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

Marija – The wilderness of grief

Marija discussed acknowedging all aspects of grief and living with grief.

Rev. Sky – “Feeling numb”

Rev. Sky discusses how feeling numb is a normal emotion and what you need to move forward.

Amanda – “Hospice like home”

Amanda discusses the value of feeling like being at home during palliative care.

Carrie – Validation

Carrie talks about validation and feeling that someone is full responsive and fully present to you and what is going on in your grief… feeling “felt”

Claudia – Art, art as therapy and art therapy

Claudia discusses the definition of therapy and how art therapists are formally trained.

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.

Caileigh – My own grief and supporting others

Caileigh tells about her own grief and now it has given her a really powerful lens on how to support children going through grief as well. Along with her professional education and training, there is now a different perspective on grief and how that fits in with supporting others.

Rev. Sky – “What is trauma?”

Rev. Sky discusses how trauma affects us on many levels.