“Grief and joy are woven together, one cannot be fully experienced without the other. Our grief for what we have lost gives way to a deeper appreciation of the joy that remains.” ~ Unknown
We believe that to truly honour Heather’s memory and support the community we are building here, we must also address the reality of grief.
Grief is an essential part of the human experience, one that often comes alongside the joy and hope we strive to foster. It’s a testament to the depth of our love and connection, and it deserves to be honoured and understood.
In our quest to spread positivity, we also want to create a space where those who are grieving can find comfort and understanding. Embracing grief doesn’t diminish our mission of spreading hope - it enriches it! It allows us to offer a compassionate hand to those who need it most, showing that it’s okay to feel the full range of human emotions.
A sampling of online grief supports are linked below.
Grief Resources
My Grief
The Compassionate Friends of Canada (child loss)
What’s Your Grief
Confidential and free, MyGrief.ca is a Canadian resource that can help you to understand and move through your grief.
MyGrief.ca is an online resource to help people move through their grief from the comfort of their own home, at their own pace. It can help you understand your grief and approach some of the most difficult questions that may arise. It was developed by people who have experienced the death of someone important to them and grief specialists. It complements existing community resources and helps address barriers to grief services.
What’s Your Grief
The Compassionate Friends of Canada (child loss)
What’s Your Grief
What's Your Grief is a place for grieving people and those who support them personally and professionally. Grief experiences and coping with grief are not one-size-fits-all, so we have many different types of grief resources to meet our readers' wide range of needs.
As mental health professionals who have experienced significant losses ourselves, we know individual grief is unique and there is no “right” way to cope. Our goal is to create a community that provides hope, creative expression, support, and education to anyone wishing to understand the complicated experience of life after loss.
The Compassionate Friends of Canada (child loss)
The Compassionate Friends of Canada (child loss)
The Compassionate Friends of Canada (child loss)
The Compassionate Friends is an international, non-profit, peer support organization, offering friendship, understanding, grief education and HOPE for the future to all families who are grieving the death of a child at any age, from any cause.
The Compassionate Friends (TCF) provides a safe environment, supporting bereaved parents grieving the loss of a child; no matter the age or cause. It is difficult to welcome you to an organization such as this, but we are happy that you found out about us. We would like to do all that we can to help you through these difficult times. Grieving the loss of a child is difficult and many of us have experienced the challenging journey. Let us help.
Kids Grief
Proud, Prepared, and Protected
The Compassionate Friends of Canada (child loss)
Talking with kids and teens about serious illness, dying and death.
KidsGrief.ca is a free online resource that helps parents and educators support children when someone in their life is dying or has died. It equips parents and educators with the words and confidence needed to help children grieve life’s losses in healthy ways.
Youth Grief
Proud, Prepared, and Protected
Proud, Prepared, and Protected
YouthGrief.ca has been developed — from content to art to design — by grieving youth, for grieving youth. It shares wisdom, experiences and advice from more than 30 young people who’ve been there, and know what it’s like to grieve when someone you care about has died.
Sometimes it may feel like people around you can’t relate or understand your grief or what you’re going through. That’s what Youthgrief.ca is here for – so you can hear from people who “get it.”
Proud, Prepared, and Protected
Proud, Prepared, and Protected
Proud, Prepared, and Protected
Proud, Prepared, and Protected is a collection of online resources to assist people who identify as 2SLGBTQ+ to access and receive inclusive, respectful care. These resources were developed by people who identify as Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ and more than 40 organizations and Canadian Virtual Hospice to fill a national gap.
This information is also helpful for allies, people working in healthcare and education and communities.