Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Claudia – Taking your art home after art therapy

Claudia talks about why sometimes not to take your art home after therapy

Donna – “Living with grief”

Donna talks about the threads of grief and her personal experience.

Jenn – Art can be grounding and meditative

Jenn explains how the textures , qualities and colours of art can be grounding and meditative

Caileigh – Advice to my younger self about grief

Caileigh talks about things that you can do to balance out feelings that it’s okay to experience all of the big feelings that you have, to find joy in little moments, and to find ways that you can cope with those big feelings.

Maureen – “Grief can change the landscape of your relationships”

Maureen discusses how relationships can be challenged by grief.

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.

Janice – “Go into feelings”

Janice explains how important it is to pay attention to your feelings.

Donna – “Grief in conversation”

Donna discusses language and talking about grief.

Maureen – “Our first miscarriage”

Maureen shares insights about her miscarriages.

Jenn – Barriers to art

Jenn talks about the barriers that may prevent someone from including art as part of their grief or emotional process including judgment of your art skills and more.

Janice – “Grieving alone”

Janice discusses grieving alone and when its important to have people around you that can listen and understand what you are feeling.

Christian – “Overdose Death”

Christian talks about an overdose death not defining who that person was.