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Mary S – Grief is not the enemy

Mary talks about embracing grief is love

Jean – Traditions and grief

Jean discusses belief systems and traditions

Valmy – Creating a song to open dialogue

Valmy talks about how music helps her process feelings and also helps her express her feelings to others

Janice – “Risks”

Janice talks about risks in behaviour and progress.

Jessica M – A Parking Lot Memorial

Jessica shares how her family gathered after her uncle died during COVID and how her family came up with a creative way of getting together in a parking lot.

Joyce – When you are a mother who loses a child

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

Keith – “Knowing what to say”

Keith gives practical advice about helping someone in grief.

Caileigh – Grief and child behaviour

Caileigh explains when a child experiences grief or a traumatic grief experience, there’s often behaviour that comes from that. Grief impacts behaviour. And sometimes it can be outward behaviour and sometimes it can be internalized behaviour. The good news about grief and behaviour is that it can be managed and supported through effective communication, through therapy and through coping strategies.

Jane – Grief and meditation

Jane shares how she practices daily meditation and how that helps her manage her thoughts and feelings.

Angie – Cumulative grief, cumulative trauma

Angie discusses the challenges of policing and how trauma and grief can accumulate

Susan – “Dying well”

Susan talks about how the individual decides to go about the process of dying.

Christian – “Stigma of opioid death”

Christian talks about the social acceptance of an opioid overdose.