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Karyn and Aidan – Support.

Karyn and Aidan discuss how much the support they received helped

Finding Your Way Through Hard Feelings Playlist

Listen to the thoughts and insights of people and families living with grief.

Sara – Listening to music

Sara discusses how listening to music can help navigate loss

Holly – Singing in the last days

Holly talks about her partner’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis, the pandemic, their decisions, faith and how singing

Krista – “Dealing with it”

Krista tells about the differences people have in dealing with it. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Donna B – “5 Generations of Service”

Donna talks about her son and how her family understands service. Donna continues to grieve the death her son during service in Afghanistan.

Susan – “Death literacy”

Susan talks about knowledge and the process of dying.

Matt – My Story

Matt tells how he found his birth mother and then lost her.

Christian – “When people say dumb things”

Christian explains how he deals with people who say dumb things.

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.

Jenn – Art can be grounding and meditative

Jenn explains how the textures , qualities and colours of art can be grounding and meditative

Susan – “Diagnosis”

Susan discusses her diagnosis and her process of dealing with it.