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Cara – Intellectual disabilities and advance planning

Cara explains that people living with intellectual disabilities are growing to older ages, much like the rest of the population. And as folks are aging what we’re seeing is the need for families more so than ever, to do some advanced planning for who will take over any caregiving decision making or where that person may live, what sort of support they may need and what that’s going to look like after the parents or the guardians die so that this doesn’t become a crisis situation.

John – Dating again

John talks about being asked by his daughters if he would ever date again

Claudia – Being stuck and art therapy

Claudia discusses remunating how art therapist can help create different positive perspectives

Susan – “The body’s wisdom”

Susan explains how listening to her body has helped her.

Teresa – Intellectual disabilities grief and time to process

Teresa explains the importance of giving time when communicating with people who have intellectual disabilities

Chantal – The benefits of the physical part of art making

Chantal talks about how art can release energy in a healthy cathartic way

Susan – “Dying well”

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

Zoreena – COVID and isolation

Zoreena discusses COVID isolation and the loss of time to spend with her Dad and her cousing

Michele – Creative expression and processing grief

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving selfMichele talks about coping that since being a child how creativity helped

Jenn – Your art completely belongs to you

Jenn explains the wonderful thing about art is that piece belongs completely to you and you have the power to do whatever you wish with it . She makes some suggestions as to what you may want to do.

Murray – Giving space for grief in song writing class

Murray talks about song writing, death and making space

Corrie – Grief is like a rollercoaster

Corrie talks about grief over time