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Donna B – “Accepting support”

Donna explains how support can help. Donna continues to grieve the death her son during service in Afghanistan.

Susan – “Not wanting to be a burden”

Susan talks about the fear of dying becoming a burden and selfishness.

Sarah K – Coping

Sarah discusses how she copes with this unbelievably painful loss

Sarah K – Finding my people

Sarah talks about how finding other people that are going through the same grief experience has been very helpful to her.

Joyce- Learning to live with grief

Joyce shares a story of support from a friend and how she managed in her early grief

John Martin – Loss, Grief and Anger

John talks about grief and anger

Susan – “How love changes”

Susan discusses the concept of how love changes and the role of the dying spouse.

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.

Christian – My process in grieving

Christian explains his grieving process and how it’s important to let people in, the power of community, and having a team that makes him feel loved and cared for

Jean – Helping your children through grief

Jean discusses how helping her children through grief also helped her

Jessica M – Finding Hope

Jessica shares memories of her brothers birthday which was just before her mothers death and how they all found hope

Caileigh – Through play children learn so much about their grief

Caileigh discussed how children learn so much about their grief through play. There’s less confusion, there’s less anxiety, there’s more awareness. For the child and the parent, there is more acceptance of grief.