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Coping with Guilt in Grief Playlist

Listen to the thoughts and insights of people and families living with grief.

Holly – Befriending our mortality workshops

Holly explains how creating can be helpful with grief and how we don’t talk about death

Hope – Benefits of child-centred grief programs

Hope discusses hope grief camp gave her and her family a place to feel normal

Adrianna – Triggers and the ball in the box analogy

Adrianna gives some great insights on how to deal with triggers

Jacqueline – My Story

Jacqueline talks about getting through the feelings after her mother’s death

Mary S – Grief is not the enemy

Mary talks about embracing grief is love

Karyn and Aidan – Supporting each other

Karyn and Aidan talk about how they supported each other and how they coped with John being hospitalized

Keith – “Difference between grief and mourning”

Keith explains how grief is internal and mourning is external.

Caleigh – Play Therapy

Caileigh explains how play therapy, a form of psychotherapy can help children in grief. It is specifically used when working with children and families and youth because it’s developmentally appropriate. They are never expected to sit down and to talk. And it is through the language of play that they’re able to learn about the confusing feelings of grief. They are able to learn new skills to cope with their grief, and they’re able to go at their own pace.

Zoreena – Tribute

Zoreena talks about tributes, family, pulling together and not being able to have a funeral

Andrew – “Loss of a twin”

Andrew talks about the loss of his twin brother, time in the womb and that there are people out there that can help. Andrew continues to grieve the death of his twin brother by mishap.

Logan – My story

Logan talks about the death of his father and bone cancer and how writing music helped