Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Maureen – “If someone you know has experienced pregnancy & infant loss”

Maureen explains practical tools to help someone who is grieving.

Cara – My story with intellectual disabilities and grief

Cara talks about how she came to see how people with intellectual disabilities need to be supported in grief

Maureen – “They are still your child”

Maureen explains how you find different ways of parenting.

Rev. Sky – “Retraumatization”

Rev. Sky discusses trauma and re-experiencing the initial emotion had at the beginning of a loss.

Chantal – Graphic novels and art therapy

Chantal defines what a graphic novel is and how words mix with imagery like a dance

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Jen – “Yoga for grief”

Jen discusses how yoga can help release stress and give you strength to help deal with the circumstances you need to deal with.

Cheryl – “Complicated Grief”

Cheryl discusses unresolved grief.

Sara – Music and grief

Sara discusses how music can connect and help by acknowledging grief and bringing comfort

Amanda – “Listening”

Amanda shares the importance of listening and being comfortable with silence.

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.

Jen – “Breathing and grief”

Jen talks about how breathing and yoga can help cope.