Testimonials For Support Groups
Good program. Need to apply daily
Support Groups12/02/2018Participant in Reno, NV
This program has been such a Blessing in my life. It came at a time in my life when I really needed it and didn't realize it at first. Patrise saw the need and ask me to join the group. I am so thankful that she saw this need in me and wanted to help. I learned so much in this group about how loss and grief were really affecting my life in ways that I didn't realize until I joined this group. Patrise had a way of bringing out in each of us in the group what we needed to hear and how to apply what we needed to move forward. My family and friends could tell a difference in me (not all knew that I was taking this class) that I had changed for the better. I am so thankful for the opportunity to have taken this program and to have enriched my life by doing so. Thank you for making this possible!
Support Groups12/02/2018Participant in Blytheville, AR
The program has helped me process and finalize not only past hurts but has also opened my eyes as to how to respond compassionately and intentionally to others that may be struggling with grief/loss experiences.
Support Groups12/02/2018Participant in Reno, NV
I did not realize how much I held on too and the stress carried with it. The method helped me to recognize my emotions and how to talk through them. And most of all how to help myself. it's ok to feel and have closure to the pain. When I said good bye, it was good..
Support Groups12/02/2018Participant in Blytheville , Arkansas
Support Groups12/01/2018Participant in Grand Falls-WIndsor, NL
I could not see how this could come together in such a short time, but it did. I feel a weight has been lifted and that I truly was able to "complete" this loss in my life. It just feels finished and I feel free from it.
Support Groups11/30/2018Participant in Findlay, OH
Really helped me to let go of some pain that I’ve been carrying around for years.
Support Groups11/30/2018Participant in Findlay , Ohio
I first went through the program 3 years ago, and although very difficult emotionally, words can not even express how helpful it has been in relieving emotional pain. Since the first experience, I have completed the program with two other losses. Every time.. the process is just so hard. BUT, the benefit far outweighs the pain of the process. I personally have a lot of severe trauma in my childhood and this program is helping me heal from the pain associated with less than loved ones. This program combined with my individual therapy in EMDR is changing my life. For the first time, I have hope that I am going to be okay.
Support Groups11/30/2018Participant in Findlay, Ohio
Support Groups11/30/2018Participant in Findlay, OH
Support Groups11/30/2018Participant in Findlay, Ohio
The program has helped me to learn and adopt a proven process to moving past the grief I feel about various events and losses in my life. I believe I understand the way it works now and will go back to it periodically, whenever I feel I might benefit from going through the process again. I am glad that I have something to share with others who are grieving, too.
Support Groups11/30/2018Participant in Plano, TX
I have known that in many areas of my loss I have tucked my feelings inside and only allowed myself to grieve at certain times of the year. My husband and I attended therapy together after our daughter died and I feel this is what kept our marriage together and my getting out of bed each and every day. However, it has been easy to go on keeping the feelings I felt myself separate and tucked away. I have been afraid for many years that at some point my grief and unresolved areas would rear up and I would be in trouble. I come from a family with strong addiction spanning across multiple generations. Obtaining the tools in this process has given me a chance to work on myself and these feelings I have tucked away. Out of fear I have not looked at many of these feelings until now. Having suffered the loss of my father and another child after the child I chose to work on I knew I was stacking unhealthy coping skills up to only show up again in my life. I now feel I can be more successful with working through grief and losses when I am faced with them again. I have spoken to many friends and family members about my experience with taking the Grief Recovery course and each time I feel so empowered to keep working on myself and using tools I gained in this process.
Support Groups11/30/2018Participant in Findlay, Ohio
Program helped me work through losses, realize how things had affected me in the past, learn forgiveness is not condoning, and how to be a better listener.
Support Groups11/29/2018Participant in East Lansing , MI
The program gave me information, a safe space, and skills to examine grief in my life. I learned from the book, from our leader, from the other group members, and from the introspective time I took using the homework activities. I plan to use the method to re-examine other significant losses I have lived through (and that I may live through in the future), with the hope of completing those losses, also. Thank you!
Support Groups11/29/2018Participant in East Lansing, MI
I recognize that there are many losses that I need to deal with that I did not anticipate had an affect on my life.
Support Groups11/29/2018Participant in East Lansing, Michigan
Support Groups11/29/2018Participant in East Lansing, MI
Help me to know that there's people out there that really care and it OK to greaf
Support Groups11/28/2018Participant in New munster, WIs
Support Groups11/27/2018Participant in Moncton, NB
It helped me to understand if I was undergoing a typical experience of grief or not and found that I was doing OK.
Support Groups11/27/2018Participant in Lenexa, KS
It brought realization of hidden feelings reactions that needed completion
Support Groups11/27/2018Participant in Olathe, Ks
I was able to organize and understand my life events and the grief associated with it for the first time, and I was able to see more clearly what I need to work through. I began to really understand how unfinished communication is affecting my life, and I feel I have a great method for dealing with it.
Support Groups11/26/2018Participant in Schwenksville, PA
I hadn’t thought about it since completing the class except for going to a funeral and being more cognizant of what I said. I will also make an effort to call my friends who have had losses To try and offer comfort
Support Groups11/26/2018Participant in Frankfort , KY
Support Groups11/26/2018Participant in Schwenksville , Pa
Support Groups11/26/2018Participant in New York, NY