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Maureen – Preparing for holidays

Maureen gives some ideas to help during holidays like connecting and taking time out

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Katie – My Story

Katie shares about her story and losing her Dad to cancer during COVID

Jackie – Warming up to do art

Jackie explains how warming up is a way into expressive arts

Sam – Mental health tools and resources

Sam discusses talking care of his mental health and group therapy after losing his father, uncle and cousin

Adrianna – Storytelling… intuitive and instrumental

Adrianna tells how storytelling helped her process her grief

Teresa – Understanding people with intellectual disabilities and grief

Teresa shares an example and discusses the importance of truly understanding people with intellectual disabilities when they are telling us their stories

Jenn – Barriers to art

Jenn talks about the barriers that may prevent someone from including art as part of their grief or emotional process including judgment of your art skills and more.

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.

Jean – Coping

Jean shares how coping can be complicated

Karyn and Aidan – Humour

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they use humour as a connection and a coping tool

Teresa – Grief and people with intellectual disabilities

Teresa discusses some of the key issues facing people with intellectual disabilites in grief. She addresses the importance ot taking time to understand.