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Hope – Benefits of play in helping kids work through grief

Hope discusses how recreation and play can help kids understand deal with their loss.

John – Being helpful to someone in grief

John shares his thoughts on how to help someone in grief

Bryan – Empathy for others

Bryan talks about how losing his father to gun violence was difficult and how taking things day by day helped him get through many difficult times. Now he wants to help children who are going through something similar to what he did. Things will get better and there is always a light at the end of the tunnel

Lisa – How to support someone in grief

Lisa shares what was helpful from other people when she was grieving

Carrie – Validation

Carrie talks about validation and feeling that someone is full responsive and fully present to you and what is going on in your grief… feeling “felt”

Janice – “Go into feelings”

Janice explains how important it is to pay attention to your feelings.

John Martin – First You Must Realize What Has Happened

John talks about realizing the reality of grief

Janice – “Feelings”

Janice talks about the importance of allowing our feelings as that’s the only way to get through them.

Brenda and Dale – “Returning to Work”

Brenda and Dale discuss their experiences going back to work. They continue to grieve the death of their son by suicide.

Keith – “We need one another”

Keith talks about the importance of story, understanding our journey and how we are connected.

Katie – Triggers

Katie talks about grief triggers and mental health triggers

Lyss – Support, Family, and Friends

Lyss discusses the long process of her mother dying, miscarriages and support from family and friends