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Sam – Prostate Cancer

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

Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child

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

Maureen – End stages during a pandemic

Maureen talks about the end stages of her father-in-law during the pandemic.

Marija – Latent grief

Marija explains latent grief

Kristal – Attending Memorials as a Support Worker

Kristal discusses the importance of finding ways to honour people that have been lost and how they have impacted you. She speaks to how she often chooses not to attend public memorials for those she has lost as a support worker as they are often very overwhelming. Instead, she has her own personal rituals or ways of honouring those she has lost personally including opening a window. She discusses how this practice was used when she worked in palliative care.

Kate – Trust and listening

Kate – explains how having someone you trust is super important so that you can have a space space to go to

Keith – “Knowing what to say”

Keith gives practical advice about helping someone in grief.

Michele – Advice to younger grieving self

Michele tells what advice she would give to her younger grieving self

Keith – “Difference between grief and mourning”

Keith explains how grief is internal and mourning is external.

Janice – “Grief and the whole relationship”

Janice uses a personal story to talk about how loss can be related to the whole relationship not just the death.

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.

Antoinetta – Things that help when struggling

Antoinetta talks about the first time she learned that it was ok that she was grieving and how to unpack all her feelings