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Jackie – Expressive arts can help when grief is confusing

March 6, 2022

Jackie talks about how working with an artist therapist helped her after her sister and mother died

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Bryan – Mom

October 30, 2021

Bryan gives his mother credit for how well she raised her two sons after her husband was murdered

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Karyn and Aidan – Challenges with COVID restrictions

February 21, 2022

Karyn and Aidan discuss the COVID restrictions on visitations and how they managed

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of a Parent / Death of a Partner / Video

Zoreena – Passing on kindness

March 31, 2022

Zoreena talks about wakes, funerals, COVID and the importance of kindness

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The First Fathers’ Day Without Dad

June 18, 2023

When you lose a person in the generation before you, you begin to think about what they meant to you. When you lose a parent, you think about all they meant, and you hoped you either lived up to the best of yourself, or in some cases where the parenting was not as instructive or kind, you hope you’ve raised yourself beyond difficult circumstances.

Blog Post / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Parent / I Am A Griever

Kim – Checking in is very important

March 5, 2022

Kim explains why it is so important to check in and keep in touch with people who have lost

Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of a Parent / Supporting Others

Katie – Coping strategies

December 1, 2022

Katie explains her coping strategies

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Finding Joy During the Holidays After Loss When Everything Feels Awful: A message of hope.

December 10, 2024

My mother died in the middle of the night on January 1, four days before I turned sixteen. I don’t remember much about Christmas the couple weeks before she died, just that we spent a lot of that season in the ICU of the hospital where my mother had birthed my brother and I. For…

Blog Post / Collective/Community Grief / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Parent / I Am A Griever

Learning from Grief

December 7, 2022

Grief is weird. Odd start, I know, but that was the sentence I used a lot whenever someone asked me how I was. It was never a constant feeling; it changed day to day. And still does. It’s the full gambit of emotions from sadness to anger to guilt and, though dark, even humour found its way in.

Blog Post / Death and Grief During a Pandemic / Death of A Loved One / Death of a Parent / I Am A Griever

Sam – Prostate Cancer

September 9, 2020

Sam talks about prostate cancer and losing his father and uncle to it

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