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Lyss – Holding Space

Lyss discusses holding space, feeling the feelings and the things her Mom missed by dying at 47.

Lynda – “It’s complicated during a pandemic”

Lynda talks about how things are so much more complicated in these times

Kate – Time to process

Kate shares about time and processing her grief especially during COVID

Janice – “Crying”

Janice explains how crying helps physically and emotionally.

Krista – “Grief counselling helps”

Krista talks about how a listening ear has helped her. Krista continues to grieve the death of her son from opioid overdose.

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.

Angie – Cumulative grief, cumulative trauma

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

Ellen – “Grieving her grandmother”

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

Madelyn – Accept what you are feeling

Madelyn talks about how it’s ok to not be ok.

Holly – Befriending our mortality workshops

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

Claudia – Art in community versus art therapy

Claudia explains how art therapists are trained and how what they do is different that doing art in community

Rebecca – Humour and grief

Rebecca talks about how she and her father used humour as a strategy during his illness and after he died