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

“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”

Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary

“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?”

Jim Beaver, Life's That Way: A Memoir