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Jenn – Art can give voice

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.

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.

Kara – “Meals”

Kara discusses food shopping for one and learning what she as an individual likes. Kara continues to grieve the death of her partner.

John Martin – Understanding Grief part 2

John talks about permission to grieve

Sam – Prostate Cancer

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

Amber -Grieving as a teenager

Amber discusses the challenges of going through grief as a teen

Michele – Expressive arts and healing grief

Michele defines expressive arts and how they can help healing in grief

Zoreena – COVID and isolation

Zoreena discusses COVID isolation and the loss of time to spend with her Dad and her cousing

Marija – Feeling Disenfranchised Grief in a Pandemic

Marija talks about disenfranchised grief and Covid

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Adrienne – Music Therapists Can Help

Adrienne explains different ways that music can help grievers

Caileigh – My own grief and supporting others

Caileigh tells about her own grief and now it has given her a really powerful lens on how to support children going through grief as well. Along with her professional education and training, there is now a different perspective on grief and how that fits in with supporting others.