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Marija – Latent grief

Marija explains latent grief

Susan – “Celebration”

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

Rev. Sky – “Retraumatization”

Rev. Sky discusses trauma and re-experiencing the initial emotion had at the beginning of a loss.

Krista – “It does get easier”

Krista talks about time and acceptance. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

Kara – “Dogs”

Kara discusses how pets help. Kara continues to grieve the death of her partner.

Amber – My Story

Amber talks about the traumatic death of her father in an explosion and being 17

Maureen – “They are still your child”

Maureen explains how you find different ways of parenting.

Cara – Intellectual disabilities and advance planning

Cara explains that people living with intellectual disabilities are growing to older ages, much like the rest of the population. And as folks are aging what we’re seeing is the need for families more so than ever, to do some advanced planning for who will take over any caregiving decision making or where that person may live, what sort of support they may need and what that’s going to look like after the parents or the guardians die so that this doesn’t become a crisis situation.

Laura- Loss to Covid & Disconnection

Kate – Advice to my younger self

Kate explains things being authentic and honest to herself has been very valuable

Kristal – Anger with Grief

Kristal discusses finding ways to channel her anger due to poor policy leading to deaths from drug poisoning and those individuals not having the support they needed. She discusses how human beings have the right to be flawed and should have the ability to grow, heal, and change.

Christian – Grieving the whole person

Christian talks about how we choose remember people when there has been a loss to drug poisoning