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Craig – My Cumulative Grief

Craig shares his story of experiencing a series of significant losses over the course of two years. He talks about the shock, grief, and uncertainty he felt during this time, and how he coped with the accumulation of loss.Craig’s story is a reminder that grief is a normal and natural response to loss, but it can be overwhelming when it comes in waves. If you are experiencing grief, it is important to reach out for support from friends, family, or a therapist. There is no right or wrong way to grieve, and everyone experiences it differently. The important thing is to be patient with yourself and to allow yourself to feel your emotions.

Zoreena – Burnout and counseling

Zoreena talks about her father’s decline in a nursing home during COVID

Susan – “Celebration”

Susan discuss her thoughts on why the process of dying shouldn’t be clinical.

Krista – “Exercise to get it out”

Krista tells how she releases stress through kickboxing. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Rev. Sky – “If you have experienced sudden loss”

Rev. Sky discusses things you can do to help navigate emotions.

Adrianna – Guilt and death by suicide

Adrianna gives insights she has found about guilt

Kara – Uncertainty

Kara discusses how Covid-19 has created uncertainty and impacted grieving.The pandemic changed the way Kara continued to grieve the loss of her partner.

Susan – “Living life”

Susan discuss what it means to live life well.

Jacqueline – Where to store art works

Jacqueline explains how art can be like journal entries that you would keep private

Cara – Intellectual disabilities, sharing and expressing about grief

Cara discusses how it’s very important that people living with intellectual disabilities have the opportunity to not only know about the information about the person being ill and dying and having the choice and opportunity to go to after death rituals. It’s also really important that they get the opportunity to share their story in whatever way they communicate. This can be verbally through sign language, through communication books, art, music, going for walks, being in nature

Murray – Be patient

Murray explains the most important thing he has learned about grief

Rev. Sky – “What is grief?”

Rev. Sky talks about the universality of grief and how people grieve differently.