Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Maureen – Preparing for holidays

Maureen gives some ideas to help during holidays like connecting and taking time out

Maureen – “Your experience of loss is unique”

Maureen explains how your experience of grief is your own.

Michele – Covid and support

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in griefMIchele talks about COVID restrictions, technology and ways to support

Rev. Sky – “Sharing”

Rev. Sky explains how sharing helps you heal.

Claudia – My story

Claudia tells her story about art and grief

Janice – “Crying”

Janice explains how crying helps physically and emotionally.

Jacqueline – Art therapy and grieving women

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

Grief, Breastfeeding, and Care

In this essay, I share a bit about my story of grief and breastfeeding. I also share some thoughts about the cultural grief some people are carrying about the lack of support afforded to lactating families whose goal it is to feed their baby from their body. I use some gendered language throughout this essay…

Grief & Drug Poisoning Toolkit [Free Downloadable PDF]

  Navigating life, death, and loss can be overwhelming. This toolkit is designed by mental health professionals and contains information about grief, different types of grief we may experience, gentle reminders on how to move through grief, as well as tips for those who may be supporting someone in their life who is grieving. This…

Claudia – Waterlillies

Claudia talks about how she painted on panels big enough to hug to help her with her 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.

Maureen – “Our first miscarriage”

Maureen shares insights about her miscarriages.