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Cara – Defining Intellectual disabilities and grief

Cara discusses how grief literacy needs to be improved across the board for people with intellectual disabilities to learn more about grief, death and dying. There is a great need to include them in this natural, normal part of life that we’ll all experience.

Mary S – Dogs

Mary talks about how special dogs are and how much they helped her grief

Maureen – “Your experience of loss is unique”

Maureen explains how your experience of grief is your own.

Susan – “Dying well”

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

Jenn – Art can give a break from grieving

Jenn talks about one of the most overlooked benefits of making art during bereavement. It can provide and escape from your grief.

Marija – Grieving Situational Losses in a Pandemic

Marija talks about feelings associated with grief and Covid

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.

John Martin – Help with Grief

John talks about how each grief is unique

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.

Jaylene Delorme-Buggins – “We Matter Campaign”

Jaylene talks about addiction, abuse, loss and how she turned her life around.

Lyss – Music

Lyss remembers playing music for her mother as she was dying and how music has helped with feelings

Susan – “Looking for answers”

Susan talks about the concept of a good death.