Coping With Grief
The BC Bereavement Helpline encourages everyone to seek grief resources that work best with their own preferences. Whether you are seeking support from a group or individual counseling, or would prefer to learn more about how to cope with grief and loss in the privacy of your own home. Please proceed to the following sections for support:
If you know of a good resource that could be a good addition to our list, please email us at contact@bcbh.ca or call 604-738-9950.
All There Is with Anderson Cooper: Podcast
Anderson Cooper takes us on a deeply personal exploration of loss and grief. He starts recording while packing up the apartment of his late mother Gloria Vanderbilt. Going through her journals and keepsakes, as well as things left behind by his father and brother, Cooper begins a series of emotional and moving conversations about the people we lose, the things they leave behind, and how to live on - with loss, with laughter, and with love.
Grief and Loss Podcast Discussion
Valerie’s guest is John Dube who is a Senior Program Manager and Clinical Supervisor at Family Services of the North Shore. John has specialized in bereavement work for the past couple of decades, and while he acknowledges how hard this work is, he also shares the extraordinary nature of people, and how through this journey, they’ve taught him to live.
In this conversation Val and John talk about the stages of grief, John’s concept of the triple burden of grief, how friends and family can best offer support to a bereaved person, and how we can help ourselves when we experience a loss. Val and John talk about the important role of rituals such as funerals and memorials in the bereavement process, and they offer the comforting notion that every expression and individual experience of grief is normal.
We hope this episode provides comfort if you are in need of it, along with insights into this very common and often painful part of life.