Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Maureen – “Group therapy vs individual therapy”

Maureen talks about what kind of counselling may work for you.

Janice – “Feelings”

Janice talks about the importance of allowing our feelings as that’s the only way to get through them.

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Corrie – Grief is like a rollercoaster

Corrie talks about grief over time

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.

Jacqueline – Art therapy and grieving women

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

Cheryl – “Complicated Grief”

Cheryl discusses unresolved grief.

Caileigh – Wanting to fix a grieving child

Caileigh gives advice about the desire to fix, especially to parents who are grieving themselves as well as supporting children who are grieving.

Corrie – Getting comfortable with discomfort

Corrie talks about being comfortable and uncomfortable with grief

Madelyn – Holding space

Madelyn explains how holding space can help anyone in grief

Chantal – My Story

Chantal discusses finding a release in doing a graphic novel to explore her grief as a thesis in art therapy school

Marija – Types of Loss in a Pandemic

Marija explains how all of the losses we experience during a pandemic are compounded