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Understanding Grief
Understanding Grief
Find information about grief before and after a loss, how it looks and feels, help for living with it, and how to find support.
- Understanding grief ›
- Grief, roles, and identity ›
Truths about grief

What grief looks and feels like

Common challenges with grief

Grieving before the loss

Ideas for living with loss

Grief triggers

How long grief lasts

How the loss affects families and others

When life starts to get better

Special dates

Rituals, funerals, and memorials

Do I need more help?

Prolonged grief
Grief and people who identify as 2SLGBTQ+

Grief and Indigenous Peoples

Caregiver grief
Grieving a Death
Grieving a Death
Access helpful articles about grief after someone dies. Browse information based on your relationship or the circumstances of their death.
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- The situation ›
Grieving a spouse or partner

Grieving a parent

Grieving a child

Grieving an adult sibling

Grieving a grandparent

Grieving a pregnancy or infant loss

Grieving a friend

Grieving a co-worker

Grieving a pet
Grieving a death by suicide

Grief after a traumatic death

Grief a death due to substance use

Grief and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
Non-death Loss
Non-death Loss
Learn about grieving losses that aren't related to a death such as: relationship breakdown, financial or job difficulties, decline of health, reproductive challenges, loss of a sense of purpose, hopes and dreams, as well as others.
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Grieving a decline in health

Grieving a divorce, separation, or romantic partnership

Grieving a family or friend relationship

Grief and reproductive loss

Grieving a job, career, or financial change

Grieving a loss of faith
Supporting Someone
Supporting Someone
Explore how to support someone who is struggling with loss. Learn things to say and do and what to avoid.
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Supporting someone who is grieving

Supporting kids and youth

Supporting someone with an intellectual disability
Professionals & Volunteers
Professionals & Volunteers
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Resources & More
Resources & More
Browse our video gallery of grief stories, search for programs and services near you, or find resources to help like infographics, books, websites and more.

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Carol Openshaw MSW, RSW

Carol is a registered social worker at Roger Neilson House, a pediatric hospice in Ottawa for children diagnosed with life limiting illness. Carol is responsible for running the perinatal bereavement program and supporting the hospice program.

Videos

We all grieve differently

Online perinatal loss communities

Your baby will always be a part of your life

Supporting a sibling

There’s nothing someone can say that will make this better

"Time heals"

Talking about and celebrating your child

Managing converations about your baby that died

Difficult decisions are made with love and compassion

A feeling of relief can come with great guilt and judgement

Group counselling can help with feelings of isolation

Memory making and momentos

Staying with your baby after death

Acknowledging grief and love

When a baby dies, the grief of a bereaved family is often misunderstood

When families receive a devastating diagnosis

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Understanding Grief

Grieving a Death

Non-death Loss

Supporting Someone

Professionals & Volunteers

Resources & More