The Canoe - Le Canoë

03/26/2026

Teaching our young people about , and …

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03/26/2026

TEACHING GRIEF

And what if we taught our children to know and understand their own grief? To explore what their grief feels and looks like, and how it wants to inform and share their lives?

When we create spaces for young people to be with and learn about grief… magic happens…

03/24/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐎𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟

They died so long ago, how is it that this feeling of Grieving remains? Feels somehow, unfinished?

Perhaps it is because, in the end, The Long Tail Of Grief is still making its way across the night sky of your love...

https://www.thecanoe.co/post/the-long-tail-of-grief

On the grief that waits, lingers, and asks again...Grief does not follow a calendar. It does not check in after a respectful interval to ask whether you are finished. It does not observe the social contracts we construct around it — the acceptable window of mourning, the expected arc from loss to ...

03/23/2026

𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐨 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞

Is this the only option there is? When it comes to the celebration of a life, is what we have been socialized to believe as being the "best option", all there is?

The latest blog post from The Canoe explores that question. Here's a small part, and you can read more by clicking on the link below!

"What most people don’t realize is that there is space here.

Space to slow things down.

Space to make choices that actually reflect the person who has died… and the people who are left to live with it.

This is where a different kind of support can exist.

Through The Canoe, and in collaboration with partners like Cleo Cremation, families are able to move through death in a way that is both simple and deeply human."

So many families are sure that there is only one way to celebrate a life. Things seemingly have to move quickly. There isn’t much time to think.A call was made… arrangements followed… and suddenly, everything felt like it was happening around them.Decisions. Timelines. Packages.They did their ...

03/21/2026

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐃𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠…

There are more and more of us today who are being called into the role of caregiver...

and so often, we are left feeling alone.

And we are here to let you know... You do not have to be.

https://www.thecanoe.co/post/when-someone-you-love-is-dying

and No One Tells You How to Be There.There is a moment that no one prepares you for.It’s not the diagnosis. It’s not even the final days.It’s the quiet space in between…When someone you love is still here—but already beginning to leave. More than ever, this is becoming the everyday experie...

02/16/2026

Learning To Grieve... Together.

02/16/2026

02/16/2026

𝐎𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞

Grief is such a complex experience, woven together with far more than we have been taught to believe, with the potential to offer us so much more than we allow it to.

The Canoe is more than a grief support organization. We are more than a group of empathic individuals committed to being at the side of those who are dying.

We are Village Builders, architects of a way of being that re-members that our Grief, as with our Love, is a garden that invites us into a deeper way of Belonging, together.

Comment, Share, DM... however you feel so called to contribute and help this Village grow, you are Welcome here.

02/06/2026

01/28/2026

𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜

01/23/2026

Why do we Grieve?

This is a question that we wonder about a lot here at The Canoe - Le Canoë, whether that is at our gatherings of DEATH OVER COFFEE or in private with individuals and families. Paul Simard shares one of the reasons we might grieve : how we have learned to love.