Blue Monday Event Recap
READING RESOURCE
Good Grief: A Companion for Every Loss
by Granger E Westberg (Author)
"Good Grief offers valuable insights on the emotional and physical responses persons may experience during the natural process of grieving something as small as a change in plans to something as traumatic
and final as death. Reflection questions
sprinkled throughout the book help readers explore their own experience with each stage of the grieving process."
We are happy to have been able to offer this event in collaboration with the Palliative Care Society. It’s almost as if there is a taboo in our society around talking about grief, loss, and mental health. We all go through these things and so we felt it was important to give people a space to connect and be able to share their stories. The event was really moving, and it’s been fascinating to watch the trees fill up with little notes since the event. Reading the notes on the trees makes me realize that we are all carrying a lot; and it’s important to check in on our friends and reference family death losses, emotional and mental struggles, gratitude, and hopes for the coming year. Rarely do we see such a public outpouring of loss, grief, and as are offered through these leaves of loss.- Bill Harder, Palliative Care of the Bow Valley . The Blue Monday event had a wonderful turnout of community. About 30 people wandered through, and the trees were virtually covered with notes, like trees leafing out in spring! 173 “loss notes” were hung on the trees throughout the week. This event provided the community with a unique opportunity for communal mourning of uncountable losses in the last year. Notes on the grief trees
ARTICLE OF INTEREST
I Have Just Months To Live. Instead Of Making A Bucket List, Here's What I'm Doing Before I Go.
"When I was diagnosed... the thought of leaving the people I loved left me heartbroken, but I chose to
confront my prognosis honestly and openly."
UPCOMING SPECIAL AWARENESS DATES
Heart Month World Cancer Day - February 4 Valentine's Day - February 14 Family Day - February 20
family and to look out for one another. - Molly Matheson, Town of Canmore
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