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Susan – “Dying well”

Susan talks about how the individual decides to go about the process of dying.

Brenda and Dale – “Their Story”

Brenda and Dale tell the story of their son’s suicide. They continue to grieve the death of their son by suicide.

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

Zoreena talks about her father’s decline in a nursing home during COVID

Amanda – “Reach out”

Amanda discusses the importance of connecting with others.

Janice – “Grief is a response to loss”

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

Matt – Music helped my grief

Matt discusses how creativity and music help his grief. Matt continues to grieve the death of his birth mother.

Keith – “Difference between grief and mourning”

Keith explains how grief is internal and mourning is external.

Maureen – Funeral music

Maureen talks explains how music can bring back positive memories

John – Foggy Brain

John discusses how difficult it is to concentrate after loss

Hope – Not wanting to burden my Mom and siblings

Hope shares how much her Mom had to do after her father died and how they worked out their relationship

Karyn and Aidan – Support from others

Karyn and Aidan discuss how family, friends, and people they didn’t know in the community supported them.Talking, meals, dog walking are among the things that made a huge difference.

Caileigh – Grief and child behaviour

Caileigh explains when a child experiences grief or a traumatic grief experience, there’s often behaviour that comes from that. Grief impacts behaviour. And sometimes it can be outward behaviour and sometimes it can be internalized behaviour. The good news about grief and behaviour is that it can be managed and supported through effective communication, through therapy and through coping strategies.