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Amanda – “No person is an island”

Amanda talks about the power of community and the importance of reaching out.

Maureen – “Your experience of loss is unique”

Maureen explains how your experience of grief is your own.

Claudia – Art in community versus art therapy

Claudia explains how art therapists are trained and how what they do is different that doing art in community

Lyss – Losing My Mother

Lyss discusses losing her mother and how her first thought was that her mother would never meet her kids Now being a mother herself brings back many memories of her.

Madelyn – The power of music

Madelyn – discusses the potency of music and processing good and bad memories

Sarah K – Grieving during a pandemic

Sarah discusses how the pandemic has pulled back the curtain on grief

Joyce – Your other children

Joyce discusses how her daughter dealt helped her as well as dealing with the loss of her brother.

Adrienne – Music and grief

Adrienne talks about the many ways music can help during a time of grief

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.

Sam – Prostate Cancer

Sam talks about prostate cancer and losing his father and uncle to it

Katie – Journaling

Katie talks about grief triggers and mental health triggers

Cale – Music is my net

Cale talks about his background, music and how music helps him express and process grief