GriefShare

GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. Since 1999, this organization has offered support groups and resources to help you in your journey from mourning to joy. Don’t go through the grieving process alone, let GriefShare walk this journey with you.

Find a grief recovery support group in your area at http://www.griefshare.org/. Groups meet across Canada, the US, the UK , New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the rules of thought, feeling, and behavior in these circumstances? It seems like there should be a rule book somewhere that lays out everything exactly the way one should respond to a loss like this. I'd surely like to know if I'm doing it right. Am I whining enough or too much? Am I unseemly in my occasional moments of lightheartedness? At what date am I supposed to turn off the emotion and jump back on the treadmill of normalcy? Is there a specific number of days or decades that must pass before I can do something I enjoy without feeling I've betrayed my dearest love? And when, oh when, am I ever really going to believe this has happened? Next time you're in a bookstore, as if there's a rule book

Jim Beaver, Life's That Way: A Memoir

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"Mourning is love with no place to go."

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