Supporting Others

Tips for Grieving During the Holidays

The holidays can bring up a lot of feelings, especially when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. Whether it’s the first holiday season without someone, the holidays mark a time where someone you love died, or it’s just hard to be around celebration when you’re not feeling celebratory, December can feel heavy.

These are a few tips for grieving during the holidays.

Sarah K – Talking to my kids

Sarah discusses the challenges of discussing her kids about their Dad;s death to heroin and helping them on their journey through grief

Teresa – Understanding people with intellectual disabilities and grief

Teresa shares an example and discusses the importance of truly understanding people with intellectual disabilities when they are telling us their stories

Alongside

That is also our best, and only role, when supporting a person with a developmental disability to grieve. We must be the one that comes alongside. There is no closer place we can get to. We must be present, be with, perhaps not understanding or comprehending what the person we support is experiencing, but alongside them nonetheless. We must be there, ready to provide whatever we can discover of their unique need in grief.

Amanda – “Listening”

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

Holly – How can we help someone who is grieving

Holly has some helpful tips how to help someone who is grieving

John – Being helpful to someone in grief

John shares his thoughts on how to help someone in grief

Sunny- Supporting My Grieving Mom

John Martin – Loss Grief and Recovery

John explains what is on the other side of grief and loss

Jean – Be good to yourself

Jean shares about support and not being hard on yourself

Karyn and Aidan – Support.

Karyn and Aidan discuss how much the support they received helped

Zoreena – Support systems

Zoreena explains the importance of support systems