Happy New Year! and Thank You! from Grief Matters 🥰
Mary Ellen Macdonald
@memacdonald.bsky.social
Grief and death literacy. Medical Anthropologist in Palliative Medicine, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). Check out Griefmatters.ca and TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBulO8OsQ3M
We all can benefit from a grief-literate world.
Saying it again for those who need to hear it again 🧡
New blog at GrieMatters.ca: Small talk, big pain: How casual questions sometimes touch the raw edges of grief.
#GriefLiteracy is about helping community members to better understand their own and other people’s experience of grief.
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Lori Weber's husband chose Medical Assistance in Dying - she generously shared her family's story and her advice for anyone making this choice. (Many thanks to Charlit Floriano and Cartoonist-in-Residence Susan MacLeod) Check out the full animation here: griefmatters.ca/cartoons/mai...
MAID, Grief Sisters and Rainbows — Grief Matters
Lori Weber's husband chose Medical Assistance in Dying three years ago. Lori generously shared her family's story and her advice for anyone making this choice. (Many thanks to Charlit Floriano for her...
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October's blog is up at ww.GriefMatters.ca, and it's such an important topic: managing small talk when you're grieving.
TODAY! If you live in #HFX/HRM, I'm leading a free 'FotoBalm' event (photo walk exploring the practice of #photography as healing for the #grief process.) Part of GriefMatters.ca Grief Gatherings Week happening all around Nova Scotia. Bring your camera and meet at The Dingle gazebo for 4 PM start.
nancyforde.com@nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis week GriefMatters.ca is hosting "Grief Gatherings" Sep 19-28. Among them is a #photography walk by me tomorrow on how photography began/continues as a healing practice for me. If you're in #HRM, bring your camera to come 'draw light' together. Pls register by e-mail. Deets in photo/ALT text.
Wondering what to do today? We've got two in-person events, if you happen to be in this beautiful part of the world #NovaScotia #GriefGatherings2025
Mary Ellen Macdonald@memacdonald.bsky.social · 11mo agoTwo more beautiful events tomorrow - both in Nova Scotia. www.GriefMatters.ca #GriefGatherings2025
There are so many amazing offerings - join us! More details at www.GriefMatters.ca #GriefGatherings2025
Join this #GriefGathering2025 event - essential learnings are promised!
VOICE: The Childhood Ethics Project@childhoodethics.bsky.social · 11mo agoRe-Imagining Childhood Grief: Children as Active Agents in a Transactional Process. Journal club: Everyone is welcome - youth too! September 22 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (EST). Moderated by #CeilidhEatonRussell (lead author), #HannaCrouse (youth researcher) & @francocarnevale.bsky.social lnkd.in/eYMfcv2J
Another great #GriefGatherings2025 event in the bag! Thanks to @whenyoudie.bsky.social and Hospice Halifax
Last Saturday, #GriefMatters took to the Sackville Farmers' Market (Nova Scotia). Stay tuned for future pop-up stands! For a full list of gatherings, visit out website here: griefmatters.ca/grief-gather... #GriefGatherings2025 #GriefGatherings
The countdown to this year’s Grief Gatherings has begun! We’re so excited for what’s ahead. Which events are you planning to attend? Let us know, we’d love to hear from you! #GriefMatters #GriefGatherings2025
