A note for peer supporters:

Your role is to offer hope, strength, and experience – from the perspective of a bereaved person who has navigated the landscape of loss AND IS STILL NAVIGATING.

Please tend to yourself as lovingly and exquisitely as you care for others.

[Alt Text – Image – Cartography of Grief. An infographic of a heart with various graphics that describe the words. (Describing the image clockwise)

Top right corner has grey clouds called Fog banks of the future
under this a dotted line called unexplored territories, under this there is a grove of trees that says Republic of memory. Under this there is a telescope that says Beauty look out. Under this there are mountains that says mountains of tissues. We get to the bottom of the heart with a cave that says the cave of safe keeping. As we move to the left side of the heart bottom up, there is a waterfall that lands in a river below with a row of trees and boulders called the Waterfall of Tears, which connects to another river called, River of Love that creates a division in the heart that leads back and reconnects to the righthand side of the heart (FOG BANKS OF THE FUTURE). There is a big space that encompasses a landscape with tents and a fire, and lots of hills and streams that say, Valley of the unexpected. As we move higher up on the left hand side of the heart, there are almond shapes, called Grief Landmines. There are some blobs that are called, pockets of peace. Above this there is curvy railway track that re- connects with the (River of Love) and leads to (UNEXPLORED TERRITORIES) that’s called Hopes and Fears Railway. Above this in the left top side of the heart, is a series of buildings that are called the Library of meaning. Outside of the heart, there are waves that lead to a wider ocean with waves. There is a ship that is called Kindness. There are some boulders that say I don’t care ATOLL. There is a image of a sea serpent that is called Sea of Serpants of Toxic Positivity.]