Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Cara – My story with intellectual disabilities and grief

November 6, 2022

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

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Caileigh – Working with children in grief

February 23, 2023

Caileigh shares why she likes working with and supporting children in grief. “Over the course of their lives, children and youth and families experience a lot of losses, and it’s an empowering job to empower others. I’m not only empowering them, but I’m also building parent capacity in recognizing that it does take a village and it takes a community to support a child.”

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Maureen – Holiday kindness and grief

December 21, 2020

Maureen discusses grieving during the holidays and being lifter up by kindness

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Caileigh – Recommendations as a therapist and a griever

February 22, 2023

Caileigh discussed two recommendations for parents on how to support their child’s grief. as a therapist and a griever. The first is to recognize that being with is far more important than fixing. There’s two pieces to connection. The first being that one of the most important healing aspects to grief is feeling connected to others.

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Chantal – Physical symptoms and grieving

August 5, 2022

Chantal talks about panic attacks and thinking she was having a heart attack

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Janice – “Grief is a response to loss”

December 10, 2018

Janice discusses waves of grief and how important it is to go with it.

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Cara – The real issues for grieving people with intellectual disabilities

November 6, 2022

Cara provides some context for the real issue of grief in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and those supporting them, including that we consider that there’s not a lot of education or information out there about how best to support someone with an intellectual disability who is grieving.

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Claudia – Art therapy and costs

August 2, 2022

Claudia talks about how people may shy away from art therapy because of costs and how training schools can be an option

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Janice – “The importance of listening”

December 10, 2018

Janice explains the importance of not being judgemental and listening when helping someone is in grief.

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Craig – Grieving as a Single Parent

August 2, 2023

In this video, Craig talks about the challenges of grieving as a single parent. He shares his own experiences and offers advice on how to cope with grief, talk to your kids about what’s happening, and ask for help from others.This video is for any single parent who is grieving the loss of a loved one. It is also for anyone who knows a single parent who is grieving and wants to offer support.

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Jessica M – My Story

June 13, 2023

Jessica talks about losing her grandfather at 14 when her mother was terminal, her mother and aunt died when she was 15. She felt alone until she found a peer support group

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Chantal – Anticipatory grief

August 5, 2022

Chantal defines antipatory grief and the grief before the physical loss

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