Grieving Space
This therapeutic service of EPS is focused on providing support and care for those who are continuing to suffer from a loss (losses) in their lives - a loved one, a marriage, a job, a capacity. Loss is a given of living - but letting go and finding one's way back to life - is sometimes just an option. Grieving Space is just that - space to grieve. Quietly - or angrily. Privately. Always respectfully. Individually or within a support group of grieving others but always in your own way. Mourning and the meaning that you give to your loss(es) is as individual as you are. At Grieving Space, we want to hold the demands of others at bay just long enough for you to reclaim what is yours amidst the debris. Services are provided by a certified grief counselor. The FPCE hosts a grief support group meeting every third Thursday of the month at 7 pm. The services of Grieving Space are available 24/7 for children, adolescents, and adults at all ages.
Complicated Mourning
While grief is often called a "path", a "journey", a "process", for many it's just a being stuck - afraid to move into grief...afraid to move out of it. Time goes by - but not much else. The sorrow, the anger, the guilt, the emptiness never seem to go away. There are ways out of your stuckness if you want to move on. There are treatment approaches that can help you move into your tears and there are interventions that can help you climb out. Grieving Space specializes in complicated mourning - helping you begin the process of picking up the pieces - when you are ready.
Every month Grieving Space gathers on its website a newsletter of the latest articles of interest and inspiration to the bereaved. The link below will take you to the latest edition.
1 - September 11, 2011 10:51 am |
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It seems as though my grief began in Nov 1993 and has not stopped. One day I was driving to work on a crisp Nov morning. I was in the process of making a left turn. I stopped to check to see if it was ok to turn. The next thing I remember I was hit. The driver ran through the red light at about 55mph. I was blessed I was in a mini van or I would be here to tell my story. Slowly I lost my cognitive abilities I have a brain injury.I had a good job that I had to give up. I tried everything to get back to where I was. Finally I was told to accept what has happened. Four years later my grandfather died and 10 months to the day my mother suddenly died. I was taking to her as 8am and my father was at my house at 2pm saying she was dead. I had to bury both of them. I selected everything and prepared the services no one helped they did not know how. I am and was under doctors care because now I have seizure disorder. The following year I started going through a long ugly divorce. It took three years. I had to move in with my father because he started going down hill. I have one sister and brother. I was unable to handle raising my son and caring for my father alone. I hired an aide, but my health began to fell. I moved in with my sister to get help. My father passed two years ago. Every time the fall of the comes around slip into a very deep painful replay of the above events. |
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2 - October 11, 2009 9:53 am |
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I am ashamed to say that there are some days that I don't think of you. It has been almost 40 years since you left us and there was a time that you were all I thought about, sure that I would never smile again. I'm so sorry Wendy that time has taken us further and further apart and yet I am so thankful that there is now some distance. It was so-o-o painful losing you for so long. I am grateful for the pain receding so that I can go on. I have to go on. I'm sorry. I fight the tears as I write this so I know you are never far away and that comforts me. I hope that we can be together again somehow, someway. It is the only thing that makes me look forward to death - that possibility, that hope. I will always love you Sis. |
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