Hi 🙂 I’m glad you are here.
My hope is to help you help support children with grief by sharing hopefully helpful hints from what I have learned being alongside children with grief.
If you would like me to write about something specific when it comes to supporting children with grief or if there is anything you would add to what I have written, please connect. I am always grateful to learn, grow, change, and shift.
Hopefully Helpful Hints
10 Common Questions from Children with Grief
When supporting children with grief, questions may arise that may be difficult to answer. Here are some ways I found helpful to answer some common…
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Differences in How Adults and Children Grieve
Often caregivers and support professionals tell me that it seems like the child they are supporting is not grieving. They express worries that because the…
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Supporting Children with Grief Dreams
I want to share with you an activity that I have been using for years in supporting children, youth, and adults in grief and loss…
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Behaviours are an Expression of Feelings
Often play and sometimes challenging behaviours are an expression of feelings. Rarely will children come home from a hard day and say exactly what happened…
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Supporting Children with Sudden and Traumatic Loss
Sudden or traumatic loss can be one of the most difficult losses to cope with. We may feel conflicting feelings of anger, sadness, and love…
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Show Your Grief (and your other feelings too)
It can be helpful to show children your grief when supporting them with grief, loss, or any other feeling too. With the best intentions, sometimes…
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Making Time for Memories
When I am supporting children with grief and loss, I offer opportunities for remembering. This may be through arts, crafts, play, or…
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Try to Use the D Words – Dead, Died, and Dying
When helping to support a child who is grieving the death of a loved one, it may feel more kind to soften language and say…
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Bring Them Up
Sometimes, it may seem helpful to not bring up a loved one who has died because you may worry that you will bring on more…
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A little bit about me 😊 I am Dallas, a ma, partner, sister, daughter, aunt, friend, Registered Clinical Counsellor, and BC Registered Play Therapist focused on supporting children and families with grief and loss since 2004.
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Dallas Shirley 