Another mapping exercise that can be helpful when processing one’s grief, is to map the community resources, relationships, activities and places that help you to feel comforted as you process and move through grief.
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There are many different ways of ‘mapping’. The goal of the exercise is to visually organize your thoughts and feelings! Here is an example of a COVID-19 Grief Map that identifies particular moments/memories from throughout the pandemic that exemplify the experience of the grief at the time…
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If you explored Bowmont Park before Easter, you may have spied the Bowness Weeping Tree. This past year has been a difficult one for many people, and it was felt that there would be great value in hosting a sacred space to acknowledge, grieve and pray for the pain and loss of Bownesians and those we love.
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As you engage with the Grief Toolkit, we wanted to share some more resources you can explore to deepen your knowledge and understanding.
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The ethos of my suburban neighbourhood is not one that is eager to face dark things. But one of the hard gifts of this year of pandemic has been its bringing of the universality of loss squarely into our collective awareness, in defiance of the aspirational sheen of a comfortable life that can act as a veil over pain and anxiety.
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