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LumiVie's services are available to all bereaved people.
All benefit from a space for listening and expression.
All are welcomed in the uniqueness of their experience.
Children as young as 5 years old are welcome.
Games, storytelling, and crafts are appropriate ways to open the conversation.
Teenagers may find it challenging to open up to their parents.
There are many reasons for this: fear of hurting the parent’s feelings, wanting to appear strong, embarrassment, and difficulty understanding each other. This may be easier with a stranger outside the daily environment. In itself, a teenager’s silence has no automatic meaning, but it can carry a pain that’s difficult to express.
In some ways, grief is taboo in our society. Most adults don’t talk much about it; we want to get through it quickly without disturbing anyone.
Yet grief is a powerful experience in every life. Those around us who are uncomfortable with the situation may not know how to support and guide us. Out of awkwardness, fear of hurting, or simply a lack of skills, our neighbours avoid the subject and, to encourage us, reduce our pain.
You need to be listened to; you need to be welcomed with your pain, and you need to take the time you need to grieve.
Perinatal bereavement, which occurs between conception and the child’s first birthday, is a sometimes invisible experience for parents.
Often invisible, often treated lightly, and usually unrecognized, this bereavement can have a profound impact and leave lasting marks on the parents’ lives. In this case, it’s the mourning of a future, the mourning of a hoped-for life project.
Caregivers devote themselves to their loved ones, often to the point of forgetting themselves.
As the person being cared for nears the end of life, the caregiver becomes an end-of-life companion, approaching the mourning period. Recognizing this dual status – accompanying someone at the end of life and mourning – is the basis of our unique service for caregivers. We receive them before the death, to help and equip them to support the person at the end of life. After the death, meetings continue with the same therapist because, in addition to mourning, they often have to rebuild their lives.
