Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Madelyn – Holding space

Madelyn explains how holding space can help anyone in grief

Left Out: Enfranchising Children’s Grief and Loss

By: Jessica Milette, MSW, RSW All human beings have the capacity to grieve: people with intellectual disabilities, those living with a traumatic brain injury, and children of all ages. However, many people can experience disenfranchised grief when someone dies. Disenfranchised grief is generally grief that is not usually openly acknowledged, socially accepted or publicly mourned.…

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.

Maureen – “Trust yourself”

Maureen talks about finding your own way in your healing process.

Cheryl – “Complicated Grief”

Cheryl discusses unresolved grief.

Jen – “Breathing and grief”

Jen talks about how breathing and yoga can help cope.

Corrie – Grief is like a rollercoaster

Corrie talks about grief over time

Rev. Sky – “Yearning”

Rev. Sky discusses yearning and how it’s OK to feel those emotions.

Keith – “My story”

Keith tells his story and why he became a counsellor.

Collective Grief

When the death of a person affects many members in a community, city, country, or across the world, people will experience collective grief.

These are some things that can help people through the experience of collective grief across a community.

Rev. Sky – “Sharing”

Rev. Sky explains how sharing helps you heal.

Grief, Exhaustion, & Rest

Many people consider grief to be a response to the death of a loved one, but we grieve so much more than that. Grief is an emotional response to loss of any kind. Both real or perceived loss can trigger the response. The loss of a job, a miscarriage, a breakup, losing a sentimental item,…