Testimonials For Support Groups
It has showed me even though I had losses and I thought everything was bad experiences, I did have some good experiences.
Support Groups11/26/2019Participant in Pittsburgh, PA
Helped me move from mental recovery to emotional recovery.
Support Groups11/26/2019Participant in Lethbridge, Alberta
Support Groups11/26/2019Participant in Regina, Saskatchewan
It has helped me understand why my grief was so overwhelming and I feel like I am emerging from a fog that was taking over my life
Support Groups11/26/2019Participant in Lethbridge , Ab
The program was helpful. I never went to a program so I don't know how to rate it. I wish we had more meetings as our feelings are different all the time. Grief Recovery isn't a 6 week course. All people grieve differently. When you've been with someone, or known someone for 40 years, it takes more than 6 weeks to begin to heal. I feel the courses are too short. The team I was with were great but I want more. I still need help. I know it's not a cure but it helps.
Support Groups11/25/2019Participant in Bethpage, NY
Support Groups11/25/2019Participant in Bethpage, NY
It has helped me realize that my inability to cope with my grief was normal due to never being taught how to do so. All of the reactions I've experienced from others came true. The myths are real. I'm able to better understand and try to accept what's happened and take my time to heal myself.
Support Groups11/25/2019Participant in 4295 Hempstead Turnpike, Bethpage , Ny
It has helped me cope with the different aspects of grief and techniques to use!
Support Groups11/25/2019Participant in Bethpage, NY
I started this program because my daddy died of alcohol overdose and it has been the most painful and traumatic experience of my life. When I started this program I was full of rage, life made no sense any more and I could not enjoy anything at all. The last few years I was primarily focusing on all of the negatives about my relationship with my dad and I forgot about all of his good things. The most beautiful discovery about this program is that it reminded me of all his good things too, it helped me see him for who he really was. It made me love him more. It allowed me to start healing from this unbearable loss.
Support Groups11/25/2019Participant in Round Rock, TX
I was grieving the loss of a miscarriage earlier this year. During the course of the program, I became pregnant again and was initially crippled by the fear of having another miscarriage. Completing the program allowed me to become aware of then process my emotions relating to the miscarriage. This helped me to let go of that loss, which allowed me to enjoy this pregnancy without those lingering fears and emotions.
Support Groups11/24/2019Participant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Support Groups11/24/2019Participant in Minsk, Belarus
I feel much lighter and have processed lingering issues that I've been struggling with for some time.
Support Groups11/24/2019Participant in Sacramento, California
1. I achieved forgiveness for a man whom I couldn't forgive. 2. I want to further apply the experience of the program in my healing of sorrow in parental relationships, in respect of people in power.
Support Groups11/24/2019Participant in Minsk, Belarus
Freedom is the best word that I can explain my feeling. I've got free from bad feelings from my childhood.
Support Groups11/24/2019Participant in Minsk, Minsk
Support Groups11/23/2019Participant in Minsk, Belarus
Support Groups11/22/2019Participant in Port Elgin, On
First, I believe it's inappropriate to offer "recovery" to grievers. Death is the profound mystery of the human experience. Loss of a spouse in particular is life altering. The kind of pain and sadness that comes with it is not all tied to "incomplete" communication with the loved one. I agree that there can be regrets, and we can become fixated on those, adding to the pain of loss. But recovery is something you do after surgery or when the antibiotic completes it's work on an infection. We all continue our day to day lives, but it's not, and can't be, the same after a loss. That sadness at the loved one's absence in this life may fade over time, but it's never going to leave, nor should it. Only in the last few pages of the main chapters do the authors say that you will still feel sad, that your life will not be the same, even after the class work is finished. I think it's self-serving to hold out the hope of recovery by using that word as the lure; who wouldn't want the pain to go away. The cathartic experience of writing and reading that goodby letter is a lesson not in recovery, but in what you can expect for the rest of your life in terms of breaking down over the loss. So I hope that people who who innocently see the phrase "Grief Recovery Method" and decide to participate believing that they can "get over" the sadness they feel aren't terribly hurt later when they out of the blue find themselves crying while preparing breakfast. If you lose your beloved well worn leather wallet, you can't have that beloved well worn wallet ever again. You can buy a new wallet and come to love it as much as the lost wallet, but you can't replace the lost beloved well worn wallet. You can't recover from the absence of that wallet in your pocket. A second concern I have over the book is the pedantic approach. Lot's of "always" and "never" in what you should or shouldn't do. All it takes to be an expert on loss is to experience it. And everyone will. The book operates on the premise that the authors somehow have the answer to loss just because they've experienced it. The authors state early on that humans are used to dealing with situations in life with reason and logic, but grief is an emotional response which requires something else. Yet the entirety of the book depends on reasoning and "logic-ing you out of what is not logical. In spite of all of these concerns that chafed at me as a participant, the value of the exercise to me didn't require the book. It consisted of having a safe place to share the most profound of human pains, with others who shared in return. And a good facilitator like the one we had can create that safe place in a support group without the "method". Some catharsis was experienced by each of us, and a deep human respect for each other developed among us. I'm not sure that the "method" was much more than a way to open the door to that kind of experience for each of us. After all, no matter what loss brought you, the one thing going in that you have in common is the pain of loss, and the hope that you're not alone. Just as the authors found ways to cope with the unfathomable, so do each of us. But while the loss does not go away, the knowledge that you are not alone, and the opportunity to express the pain to others who you know understand how that feels, is a great comfort. Finally, my spiritual beliefs, non-denominational, provide the context for my sadness at losing my wife. A couple tenets of those beliefs include accepting that we cannot understand or know everything in this life in space and time. Some things must remain mysteries while we're here. Secondly though, I believe that all will be known to us naturally once we leave this form of existence through death. Further, we knew all before we were confined within the limits of human mind and body at birth. We spend a lifetime trying like crazy to regain the soul-peace of that total connection to all that is, that we had and will have forever. In that spiritual context, I can accept that I'll be sad that someone with whom I shared the travails of this life intimately is now in a state of being in which there are no mysteries to make peace with. Her absence for the remainder of my sojourn here makes me sad while I'm still here. And that's the way it is.
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in Haslett,, MI
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in Haslett, MI
The grief recovery program is very beneficial for each and every one who has experienced loss of any sort in their life. The program has helped me to see that you can better relationships with people that are still living around you. The grief recovery program has enlighten me on the behaviors of grief. Matters of the heart are not always easy to deal with or handle. But with the proper tools you're better equipped to start the process of healing. To become whole in your emotions of death let's you know you are human and dying is a part of life. The Grief Recovery specialist is the door to you opening up. One who is sensitive to all loss/grief.
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in University Park , IL
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in Simi, Ca
I feel like I have the tools to identify certain triggers based on previous experiences and know where to go when another loss comes up. I fee At peace in many ways.
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in Sandwich , MA
I really enjoyed my time in this group for it got me thinking. The life history graph was the best. It was fun and knocked me out. At first I did not feel I had any grief, but I was depressed, little things bothered me but death or a divorce did not. The book and the group helped me open my eyes and acknowledge that I do have some grief but it was not what I had expected. Thank you
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in Rapid City, South Dakota
This program and the facilitator's compassionate style greatly helped relieve long-standing grief and improved my perspective on life.
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in HASLETT, Michigan
Open me up to release the my anger
Support Groups11/21/2019Participant in University Park, Il