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Rev. Sky – “Emotions”

Rev. Sky talks about the emotions that come along with loss and outlets that can help.

Lynda – “Resilience”

Lynda discusses what resilience is all about

Adrianna – Therapy and loss

Adrianna talks about how different kinds of therapy helps

Doug M – “It’s Ok to have a new life”

Doug tells how he has had mixed emotions but that ultimately it’s OK to have a new life. Doug continues to grieve the death of his first wife.

Kristal – Attending Memorials as a Support Worker

Kristal discusses the importance of finding ways to honour people that have been lost and how they have impacted you. She speaks to how she often chooses not to attend public memorials for those she has lost as a support worker as they are often very overwhelming. Instead, she has her own personal rituals or ways of honouring those she has lost personally including opening a window. She discusses how this practice was used when she worked in palliative care.

Betsy – Adoption and grief

Betsy tell her story of losing her adopted son to cancer

Rev. Sky – “Feeling numb”

Rev. Sky discusses how feeling numb is a normal emotion and what you need to move forward.

Logan – Advice

Logan discusses how its good tp let out your emotions

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

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

Maureen – Isolated in a nursing home

Maureen talks about her father-in-law isolated and palliative during the pandemic

Rev. Sky – “What is grief?”

Rev. Sky talks about the universality of grief and how people grieve differently.

Claudia – Materials in art therapy

Claudia discusses all of the wonderful options of materials to use in art therapy. Art, markers, clay, pencils, water collours, cutting, tearing. They physical engagment with the materials is like alchemy.