Marney Thompson

Grief counsellor and educator.

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

Do we engage with the distress of our families, friends, and communities with empathy? https://t.co/l595gFCek6

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

“We need time to repair relationships and broken trust.” https://t.co/IxG8h37tFU

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

Some needed caution encouraged regarding post-traumatic growth. https://t.co/gULC8QpSZo

[Irish Hospice Foundation @IrishHospice]

'When people go inside the shop they hold their faces in their hands or shake their heads and take deep breaths or just stop on the threshold.' Would you drop into a pop-up 'Grief Shop'? https://t.co/lyylOwXBk6

[CHPCA @CanadianHPCAssn]

Children Experience Grief Too: Supporting Children Through the Dying and Death of a Family Member - Online Event - https://t.co/akjjPikBh3

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

One of the hardest and kindest things to do is to “let them be sad.”

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

Why social workers are integral to end-of-life care https://t.co/0kkeztg1LN via @healthydebate

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

“Try your best to love other people besides the one you lost.”
https://t.co/XBbOkdnseK

[Atle Dyregrov @Dyregrov]

I have read this again. Think it useful for all youngsters struggling with memory problems after loss and trauma. Have to find the right way to use it: The act of drawing something has a “massive” benefit for memory compared with writing it down https://t.co/0Yk2YzdJUB

[Kelli Stajduhar @KStajduhar]

Palliative Care peeps: A chance to do your PhD with @MerrynGott and team? This would be a fabulous opportunity! Go for it! Run fast!Wish I was in the market to do a second PhD🙂

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

November 20th is National Bereavement Day in Canada. Share your story!

[CHPCA @CanadianHPCAssn]

Are you still looking for a way to mark National Bereavement Day? Why not share your stories with us! We are Challenging all Canadians to ask each other about their grief & bereavement and share their stories. Don’t forget to tag CHPCA and use the hashtag #GriefDay18 #JourDeuil18

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

I need this! Had no idea bullets are 1990?!?

[Kelli Stajduhar @KStajduhar]

Brilliantly helpful infographic by @suerobinsyvr #publicspeaking #scicomm

[Canadian Virtual Hospice @VirtualHospice]

Thanks to funding from @VeteransENG_CA we'll be engaging national & international #grief experts, #Veterans & families to develop a tailored grief tool for their unique needs & to help mitigate PTSD.

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

Such an uncomplicated and healing intervention!

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

“Palliative care providers navigate patients’ nonphysical suffering in their day-to-day work and the impact of working with nonphysical suffering on the clinician have been understudied.”

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

A valuable scoping review with bereavement support recommendations.

[Andy H.Y. Ho, PhD, EdD, MFT @andyhyho]

Lived experience of a child’s chronic illness and death: A qualitative systematic review of the parental bereavement trajectory #paediatricpalliativecare #grievingparents #bereavementsupport #teamARCH #NTUSSS

https://t.co/nxX6ebcJbz

[Cruse Bereavement Support @CruseSupport]

Sorry For Your Loss is a new television show that follows a young widow forced to deal with devastating grief in the wake of her husband’s unexpected death

Everyone processes grief differently & we're happy a show is exposing this.
https://t.co/TPQs8AUtBK

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

We need so much more bereavement support in this community especially, but really, in all communities.

[Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care (ePAC) @access2care]

Hearing Dr. Therese Rando describe 12 high risk elements for traumatic bereavement at #PAL2018 and thinking of all the family, friends, and workers struggling with overdose loss as a result of the War on Drugs. We need so much more bereavement support in this community 💜

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

A way to bring names and faces to the devastating numbers and also a way to remember and and honour those who’ve died.

[Lost Loved ones to opioids map @RxHeroinMaps]

The Celebrating Lost Loved Ones to the #OpioidEpidemic map continues to be updated with now 1688 great people memorialized and added by their families. https://t.co/O4lroQtkcj #breakthestigma Families can honor lost loved ones by adding them directly to the map.

[Marney Thompson @MTMarney]

Children’s names translated into birdsong...

[Poppysdream @poppysdream1]

Have you read the western mail article today about Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice bird song project to help bereaved parents @ruthwignall @markhutchings1 @tyhafan #tyhafan @vaughangething