Testimonials For Support Groups
This program worked for me because I am now ready to face my grief head on & now I have tools to be better prepared for future grief. Thank you!
Support Groups11/29/2022Participant in N/A, N/A
It allowed me to gain the tools to understand, cope, grieve, and to move forward from any type of loss I would come in contact with in my future or could help anyone that should cross my path. I am very appreciative that I was able to take this class.
Support Groups11/29/2022Participant in N/A, N/A
The facilitators insight to grief totally awesome
Support Groups11/29/2022Participant in Las Vegas, NV
I wasn’t sure if I needed the program but thought I’d try because I had a sense of blockage around grief, as if it was hard to empathize with others grief. I suspected it had to do with a relationship that was lost. I focused on that relationship in the program and as I did my relationship graph and listed my strong emotional statements, I could feel a shift in my energy. I felt more excited about working on my career and a little more confident. I was already pretty in touch with my feelings and how to express them, but the program helped me go deeper and I think I will be more open to being present with others who grieve.
Support Groups11/28/2022Participant in Summerville, SC
Support Groups11/28/2022Participant in Hinton, Alberta
Support Groups11/28/2022Participant in Summerville, SC
Outstanding !!!! I want more..
Support Groups11/28/2022Participant in Hinton, AB
This program was practical, easily fit into my busy schedule, and was highly effective. I will utilize the tools that I learned throughout this program for the rest of my life and I am very grateful for the experience.
Support Groups11/27/2022Participant in Pemberton, British Columbia
It has given me the tools to move through this and further losses in my life.
Support Groups11/27/2022Participant in Pemberton, Bc
Having finished the lessons, I now more aware of my feelings as to how I related to my husband. When thoughts and feelings come now I know that I need to say goodbye to those feeling again. Also I realized so much of what happened was also related to how I was brought up and happenings in my childhood.
Support Groups11/25/2022Participant in Aldergrove, BC
I appreciated the concept of going back and looking at both the positives and negatives and dealing with the negatives
Support Groups11/25/2022Participant in Aldergrove, British Columbia
Support Groups11/25/2022Participant in Aldergrove, BC
The program gave me a safe place to examine, collect, and then express my losses as well as a framework to do so. It was very helpful and I will continue to ponder my learnings from it.
Support Groups11/25/2022Participant in Brooks, Alberta
The programe is good and definitely helped me learn new things and overcome some aspects of my grief. Using simple tools it provides an efficient approach to the emotional closure with the past.
Support Groups11/24/2022Participant in Zoom, Zoom
It abled me to express and write down emotions and guilt that I was feeling
Support Groups11/23/2022Participant in Kincardine, Ontario
Support Groups11/22/2022Participant in Garden Grove, CA
I would rate the program as an excellent program but my experience wasn't typical and, therefore, I don't think my response can be used as a metric. While no one's grief is "typical", my situation involves a lot of abuse, both from my mother and my husband who was a clinical, covert narcissist who led a double life. I did not find this out until after he died, nor the extent to which he harmed and manipulated my children and used them to perpetuate his abuse of me and to triangulate them and me with various other people. I have done extensive therapy and grief work both on this aspect of that relationship as well as his death and loss and the betrayals. Now I work to reconcile the loss of the family I thought had. In coming to the Grief Recovery Method, I found there was a lot of unprocessed grief for my mother's death that was a precursor to my husband's and definitely a relationship between her abuse of me and my being a partner with a narcissist. It was like dealing with the Great Oz behind the curtain. And while I have also done decades of family of origin work in therapy, it was therapeutic to codify my feelings and memories of my mother according to the Grief Recovery Method and actually classify what I was willing to forgive and what I wasn't at this time. I also found that sorting through and classifying Significant Emotional Events and addressing them was helpful and brought clarity. Also, sorting through the whole mess according to a timeline was clarifying; I think it showed where things got worse or where my memories are most dense and it begs the question why---or maybe not. Maybe it's not important at all and that's the point of the whole exercise. Just grieve, acknowledge, complete, move on with life. All in all, it is an excellent program, I just am not the typical person/griever.
Support Groups11/22/2022Participant in Cincinnati, OH
I tend to think a lot while also needing structure and this was a great platform to organize the swirling thoughts and emotions. I was also guided with kindness and love by my facilitator which made a world of difference in motivating me to completer the process. I have to admit, I had been avoiding a lot of the feelings that were brought up but the way my facilitator guided me and supported me kept me trudging through, I also very much appreciated having an anonymous ear to listen to my words I wrote down. Getting them out vs just writing them down over and over in a journal helped a millions. I was also happy to be a heart with ears for others.
Support Groups11/22/2022Participant in Cincinnati, OH
I never felt comfortable or safe talking about my grief before this class. Carrie and my entire group made me feel very safe when I shared, and being able to share some of my thoughts and my experiences and feelings are a huge part of why this class really works. Other people in my class talked about feeling the same way. We all felt nervous at first but her class took the worry away and made you feel safe and comfortable. She says that when you feel heard you can heal and it is very true.
Support Groups11/22/2022Participant in Cincinnati, OH
This kept me focused on my own healing because of the weekly time commitment. Though I also use therapy, I appreciated this method's structure kept me on task to move forward vs. deviate into other areas. I like having the book and process so I can use it for other losses.
Support Groups11/22/2022Participant in Cincinnati, OH
Program helped me to feel ‘complete’ with particular aspects of grieving over time.Universality of grief and being able to know it is a process that others deal with is helpful and well as the trust aspect that develop with participants.
Support Groups11/21/2022Participant in Peterborough, Ontario
David was an excellent facilitator. He provided a empathetic non judgemental space to learn and share. He was very knowledgeable and was available for any questions or concerns. I developed some tools to help moving forward in my life in dealing with grief as well as grief from the past. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in this workshop. Teresa
Support Groups11/21/2022Participant in Peterborough, Ontario
The program helped me identify the source of some complicated emotions I'd been experiencing toward my family member. Working through painful memories and completing unresolved communications has allowed me to forgive her and find compassion for both of us. I'm certain this will strengthen our relationship and bring us closer together.
Support Groups11/21/2022Participant in Peterborough, ON
Support Groups11/21/2022Participant in Ennismore, ON