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Nicole – Pandemic’s Effect on Grieving as a Community

Nicole discusses the ways the pandemic has affected the way people grieve as a community.

Maureen – Funeral music

Maureen talks explains how music can bring back positive memories

Jane – Grief and meditation

Jane shares how she practices daily meditation and how that helps her manage her thoughts and feelings.

Claudia – You do not have to be an artist to do art therapy

Claudia explains why you do not have to be an artist to benefit

Lisa – Music helped after losing her Dad

Lisa shares how music has helped in her grieveing process.

Jen – “Yoga for grief”

Jen discusses how yoga can help release stress and give you strength to help deal with the circumstances you need to deal with.

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.

Andrea – Grieving during a pandemic

Andrea discusses the challenges of grieving during a pandemic

Corrie – Grieving during a pandemic

Corrie discuss the grieving during a pandemic

Mary – Taking songwriting classes

Mary explains two reasons why people take songwriting classes

Jean – Grief resources and self care

Jean talks about resources that help in processing grief and self care

Kristal – Poetry, Comedy, & Art for Grieving

Kristal discusses using poetry and other forms of creative expression as a distraction from her grief and to disassociate in a safe and productive way. She discusses grief being love with nowhere to go, so she puts it into art.