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Justin – Song writing and lyrics

Justin explains how lyrics can help convey feelings and how loss has impacted you

John – What to do now

John talks about the time after the initial period of grief

Keith – “We need one another”

Keith talks about the importance of story, understanding our journey and how we are connected.

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.

Ellen – “Grieving her grandmother”

Ellen talks about her grief and the loss of her grandmother.

Maureen – “Grief doesn’t stop, even when the outside world is in crisis”

Maureen gives suggestions about how you can help people in grief

Margaux – “It never really hit me at one moment”

Margaux describes the experience of gradually processing her grief through individual and group therapy. Margaux continues to grieve the death of her mother from breast cancer.

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.

Maureen – “Grief is a messy non-linear place”

Maureen explains how you wind your way through grief and that is normal.

Bryan – My Story

Bryan talks about his father being a lawyer and being shot and killed by an apposing lawyer. He talks about his mother and brother and how they have coped

Christian – “When people say dumb things”

Christian explains how he deals with people who say dumb things.

Antoinetta – Things that are hard about school

Antoinetta shares about the challenges she faced when returning to school after her father died