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.

“Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain, pulling up a chair so that we have something more than sorrow in our hearts. Comfort gently expands our spirits so that we can breathe again. Comfort opens our eyes so that we can see possibility again. And on those days, whether it is the next day or five years removed, on that day when grief rears its dark head again, comfort helps us remember that pain is not all there is”

Peggy Haymes, Strugglers, Stragglers and Seekers: daily devotions for the rest of us

She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.”

Tess Thompson

"We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else. "

Sigmund Freud