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Sara – Listening to music

Sara discusses how listening to music can help navigate loss

Lynda – “Guilt during a time of crisis”

Lynda discusses how to deal with guilt.

Kristal – Grieving the Whole Person

Kristal discusses the importance of recognizing and grieving the entire person who was lost – not just who they were before they had been using drugs.

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 – Lasagna

John talks about the “widower’s meal”… Lasagna, and learning how to cook for his daughters after his wife died

Jane – Struggling to process layers of grief

Jane talks about her experience navigating multiple losses in a short time and the impact the pandemic has had on that by adding even more multi-facitated layers of grief

Brenda and Dale – “Seeking Help”

Brenda and Dale discuss how seeing a counsellor helped them. They continue to grieve the death of their son by suicide.

Jacqueline – How to help a grieving friend

Jacqueline discusses the power of just being there with someone in grief

Donna – “Helping a grieving friend”

Donna shares some practical ways to help someone in grief.

Keith – “How can you help”

Keith explains that by imagining being in someone’s position can show you practical ways of helping them.

Kate – Time to process

Kate shares about time and processing her grief especially during COVID

Corrie – Pandemic of grief

Corrie discusses how much grief there is