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Kristal – Drug Poisoning During Pandemic Stigma

Kristal discusses how the pandemic has created additional stigma surrounding those who use drugs. She dissuses how it seems like some losses are treated as more deserving of being mourned than others. Many people have had to grieve privately instead of publically within a community. She touches on the state of the public health system during the pandemic.

Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child

Joyce shares about how she has felt as a mother who lost a child

Krista – “Mental illness and self medicating”

Krista talks about mental health and self medicating. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Thoughts About Grief Counselling Playlist

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Coping with Guilt in Grief Playlist

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KIm – Planning a funeral in the pandemic

Kim explains the ups and downs of planning a funeral during the pandemic

Adrianna – Storytelling… intuitive and instrumental

Adrianna tells how storytelling helped her process her grief

Susan – “Bearing Witness”

Susan discusses why it’s OK to talk about death and how you want to die.

Karyn and Aidan – Describing grief during the pandemic

Karyn and Aidan talk about how their grief has changed and the challenges they have faced grieving during a pandemic

Donna – “Helping a grieving friend”

Donna shares some practical ways to help someone in grief.

Antoinetta – Myth that tragedy brings family together

Antoinetta discusses the challenges that her family faced after the death of her father

Jackie – Expressive arts and my grief

Jackie talks about not needing art skills to use expressive arts and how it helped her with her grief