Bereavement Professionals’ Insights

Madelyn – Advice to younger self

Madelyn discusses how having feelings is a gift and you can work through tough ones. There is hope.

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

Keith – “Grief at any age”

Keith discusses grief and age.

Claudia – What do I do when my art is finished

Claudia explains some helpful tips after your art is finished

Maureen – “Peer vs professional support”

Maureen talks about getting help and what is right for you.

Maureen – “They are still your child”

Maureen explains how you find different ways of parenting.

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

Maureen explains practical tools to help someone who is grieving.

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Amanda – “It’s a gift to love someone”

Amanda talks about grief and it’s connection to love.

Jen – “From funeral director to yoga for grief”

Jen talks about how being a funeral director and how yoga and grief became connected for her.

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.

Claudia – Being stuck and art therapy

Claudia discusses remunating how art therapist can help create different positive perspectives