Grief Support
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Death Doula Services
"There’s a time for holding things together. And a time for falling apart."
DR. KEN DRUCK
Change, Endings, Loss & Grief
FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, TEENS, AND YOUNG ADULTS
We help young people with...
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Understanding and normalizing grief
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Understanding what grief looks like, both physically and emotionally
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Developing skills/tools for self care
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Learning how to channel their grief and grief support (e.g. through art)
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Building their support team
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Learning how to create personal celebrations of remembrance or transition
Programs are tailored to your child's needs.
Individual, Family and Group options are available.
Growing pains of a different kind....
Sometimes growing pains are physical, like when stretching legs awaken a child, into tears, in the middle of the night. And sometimes being a kid, the hurt and pain is felt closer to the heart and mind... feelings and thoughts.
Sometimes it is the little things that are left ungrieved, uncelebrated and unacknowledged that feel unbearable.
A grief is a grief... the size matters to the one it belongs to.
Cole Imperi's definition and creation of Shadowloss and Death loss explains this beautifly.
" Shadowloss™ is a loss IN life, not a loss OF life. When we experience a loss of something—like a divorce, infertility, getting fired, etc.— and can feel the same as if we had the loss of someone.
Sometimes worse, because the hidden grief that follows leaves us feeling isolated."
Death loss is the death of a person or a pet. Our animal family members are family too.
When it comes to matters of a young tender heart Shadowloss' may look like...
Death loss: the death of our people and animal family.
Change + Endings
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Divorce in their family,
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moving communities,
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growing up
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changing schools
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transitioning into high school to post secondary
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coming out, gender transition
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break ups
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friendships ending
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bullying
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failures
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let downs in life
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difficult relationship with their parents
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loss of innocence
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Grief + Loss
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Death of a peer / friend / family member / public personality / pet
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It is in the company of the animals that space is held for what is in the heart to he HEARD/HERD.
