Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Happy New Year! and Thank You! from Grief Matters 🥰 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 04/12/2025We all can benefit from a grief-literate world. 020 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Saying it again for those who need to hear it again 🧡 020 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 23/11/2025I love bumping into creative #DeathLiteracy while Christmas shopping! 140 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 05/11/2025New podcast episode: Grief in all the wrong places. Have a listen at GriefMatters.ca 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Repeat with me: There are no stages of grief! griefmatters.ca/blog/what-br... 050 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 22/10/2025New blog at GrieMatters.ca: Small talk, big pain: How casual questions sometimes touch the raw edges of grief. 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 22/10/2025#GriefLiteracy is about helping community members to better understand their own and other people’s experience of grief. 020 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Want to know more about Grief Matters? Sign up for our newsletter! 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Lori Weber's husband chose Medical Assistance in Dying - she generously shared her family's story and her advice for anyone making this choice. (Many thanks to Charlit Floriano and Cartoonist-in-Residence Susan MacLeod) Check out the full animation here: griefmatters.ca/cartoons/mai...griefmatters.caMAID, Grief Sisters and Rainbows — Grief MattersLori Weber's husband chose Medical Assistance in Dying three years ago. Lori generously shared her family's story and her advice for anyone making this choice. (Many thanks to Charlit Floriano for her... 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I love it when I bump into #GriefLiteracy as I wander through my world 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 04/10/2025October's blog is up at ww.GriefMatters.ca, and it's such an important topic: managing small talk when you're grieving. 010 0
Reposted by Mary Ellen Macdonaldnancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 25/09/2025TODAY! If you live in #HFX/HRM, I'm leading a free 'FotoBalm' event (photo walk exploring the practice of #photography as healing for the #grief process.) Part of GriefMatters.ca Grief Gatherings Week happening all around Nova Scotia. Bring your camera and meet at The Dingle gazebo for 4 PM start. 174 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Good morning! Just another commute to work 😊 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Wondering what to do today? We've got two in-person events, if you happen to be in this beautiful part of the world #NovaScotia #GriefGatherings2025 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Two more beautiful events tomorrow - both in Nova Scotia. www.GriefMatters.ca #GriefGatherings2025 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Gather with us for a grief walk today in Bedford (Nova Scotia). More at wwwGriefMatters.ca 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 22/09/2025There are so many amazing offerings - join us! More details at www.GriefMatters.ca #GriefGatherings2025 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Join this #GriefGathering2025 event - essential learnings are promised! 011 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Another great #GriefGatherings2025 event in the bag! Thanks to @whenyoudie.bsky.social and Hospice Halifax 030 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Last Saturday, #GriefMatters took to the Sackville Farmers' Market (Nova Scotia). Stay tuned for future pop-up stands! For a full list of gatherings, visit out website here: griefmatters.ca/grief-gather... #GriefGatherings2025 #GriefGatherings 020 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Just dropped! And with that, #GriefGatherings2025 is underway. Join us, www.GriefMatters.ca 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Grief Gatherings starts tomorrow! #GriefMatters 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 17/09/2025From September 19-28, in-person and online grief literacy activities! Join us! #GriefGatherings2025 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Two more sleeps! #GriefGatherings2025 Schedule at: griefmatters.ca/grief-gather... 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The countdown to this year’s Grief Gatherings has begun! We’re so excited for what’s ahead. Which events are you planning to attend? Let us know, we’d love to hear from you! #GriefMatters #GriefGatherings2025 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Just follow the geese to #GriefGatherings2025🪿 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 16/09/2025#GriefGatherings2025 are coming up! Join us!griefmatters.caGrief Gatherings — Grief MattersGrief Gatherings was a week-long event to increase grief literacy in our communities. 011 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Have you heard about #GriefGatherings2025? Check out griefmatters.cagriefmatters.caGrief MattersGrief Matters is working to increase grief awareness and grief literacy so that we all can better support ourselves, others, and our communities. Please join us! 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 21/08/2025This new policy demonstrates such impressive leadership - thanks @cjphrcsp.bsky.social for your vision! 032 0
Reposted by Mary Ellen MacdonaldVOICE: The Childhood Ethics Project @childhoodethics.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Children grieve too! In this paper, we contest views of children as immature, used to justify their exclusion from discussions about death. This exclusion breaches children’s participation rights. We propose a rethinking that recognizes young people as active moral agents. doi.org/10.1177/0030...doi.orgRe-Imagining Childhood Grief: Children as Active Agents in a Transactional Process - Ceilidh Eaton Russell, Meg Chin, Georg Bollig, Cheryl-Anne Cait, Franco A. Carnevale, Jody Chrastek, Bianca Lavorgn...Bereavement during childhood impacts children’s wellbeing and biopsychosocial development. Research examining impacts and outcomes of childhood bereavement and ... 012 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 31/03/2025A little #DeathLiteracy humour to start the day 020 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Started my day with this genuine approach to children's #DeathLiteracy. Thank you @drjrubenstein.bsky.social 123 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Some timely local🍁lore (and a great interview with historian/writer, Craig Ferguson)cbc.caMan who burned down White House buried in HalifaxCraig Ferguson, a director of the Old Burying Ground Foundation, shares the story of Maj.-Gen. Robert Ross and how he ended up in Nova Scotia. Watch his interview with Amy Smith. 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Grief is grief. Ireland's leading with #GriefLiteracy once again - well done! 020 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 09/03/2025This point is what crushed me when the Buffy Sainte-Marie story broke. Within her false claim of being Indigenous was her false claim of being adopted. The false Indigenous claim angered many people (rightly so). I did not see the false adoptee claim getting such attention. Thoughts? 110 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 08/03/2025*Mind blown* I haven't thought of the grammar - thanks for this. 'I was' (adopted at 6 weeks old) vs 'I am' (forever adopted) 110 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 07/03/2025(More) life lessons from Dolly Parton 🙏 #GriefLiteracyuk.style.yahoo.comHow to cope with the death of a lifelong partner as Dolly Parton's husband of 60 years diesCarl Dean, the longtime husband of the country music icon has died at the age of 82. 051 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 06/03/2025(Sober) Grief Disco - brilliant #GriefLiteracy!bbc.comGrief Disco: The women helping people cope with lossGeorgina Jones set up Grief Disco events after she lost her 16-month-old son Osian in March 2023. 010 0
Reposted by Mary Ellen MacdonaldKelly Anderson @kellykanderson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025We will begin reviewing applications for these post-doctoral positions in March, so get your application in soon! 021 0
Reposted by Mary Ellen MacdonaldCompassionate Communities UK @compassionatecomm.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Our good friend, Professor Allan Kellehear has asked us to share this closure conference focusing on grief and loss taking place in #Durham. For more info and to book: For more information and link to book: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham... #Conference #Grief #Loss #Bereavement 021 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 10/02/2025In 'North of North,' a Joyous Celebration of Being Inuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...thetyee.caIn ‘North of North,’ a Joyous Celebration of Being Inuk | The TyeeIt’s a striking reminder of why locally made TV matters more than ever. 000 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 07/02/2025A 'grief with no name' is still grief. We need to stop disenfranchising grief with our own labeling. Thanks to Jelena Markovic for helping me think about this today. #GriefLiteracyaeon.coIdentity is painfully contingent for the culturally bereaved | Aeon EssaysAs a child, I was torn from a culture that I never knew. It is a loss that defines me, even as I struggle to define the loss 011 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Weaving and grieving, that's #GriefLiteracytalkdeath.comWeaving and Grieving: How Fiber Arts Can Help us Grieve and HealKnitting and other fiber arts are a delicate, slow, and repetitive process. Isn’t this just like the experience of grief? 031 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 04/02/2025What do grief and Queer Eye have in common? New blog at GriefMatters.ca!linkedin.comGrief Matters on LinkedIn: #grief #griefmatters #griefliteracy #blogpost #whereifindgriefWhat do grief and the show Queer Eye have in common? That grief is met with love, shares Susan in her new blog post, Finding Grief in Queer Places. Read all… 010 0
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The message on this rock worked. I learned about #HIE on my morning walk. More about Lola's life and legacy at: www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/... 110 0