The Widowed Persons Support Group offers a free 6-week grief support program specifically designed for persons widowed in the last several years and a free 4-week advanced grief support program specifically designed for those with longer losses. These sessions are designed to address grief in a confidential and respectful manner. We offer these sessions three to four times per year.
Our Grief Facilitator is an excellent, qualified, professional Counselor, who is also a widow, and who has years of experience in Grief Counseling.
SIX WEEEK GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
WIDOWED PERSONS SUPPORT GROUP Free 6-week grief support program specifically designed for widowed persons who are in the first several years after their loss. Meets 2 to 4 p.m. for 6 Sundays JULY 14 through AUGUST 18, 2024 near Central Expressway & Walnut Hill Lane in Dallas. Participants should register by July 5 & plan to attend all 6 meetings. Lily Adrian, Advanced Grief Facilitator & a widow herself, will facilitate the group. To register, please call the Widowed Persons office at 214-358-4155 & leave a message for a returned call.
GRIEF’S EDGES
SHARPER THAN THE SHARPEST POINT ONE CAN EVER IMAGINE…GRIEF is exactly that. It comes in many shapes…sizes…forms…. there is no MAP TO NAVIGATE THROUGH it as if you can get there without the pain. It’s that emotion that literally knocks the wind out of you….where you find yourself gasping for air…and can find none. It’s that thickness in your throat that makes you feel as though you will no longer be able to breathe. It’s the realization that more than half of you is gone and how to find that whole YOU once again.
It’s recognizing there will be pain and not trying to ignore it but instead….CALLING IT BY IT’S NAME. And there are many names for GRIEF. No one person’s grief is like another’s although there are many similarities. But what we MUST guard against is feeling as though we need to fall into SOMEONE ELSE’S, SO CALLED PATTERN or DEFINITION, OF GRIEF. It just doesn’t work that way.
Grief is one of those emotions we will all experience at some point in our lives…and on many different levels. But when we can NAME IT….and walk THROUGH IT….connecting to our individual emotions…then we can better navigate the journey.
That empty seat at the table….birthdays going unrecognized….Valentines day alone….shutting the lights out at night and going to bed alone after 6 mo….or 46 years. The time you were with this person does not define how difficult the grief will be. As when any person’s heart strings are attached to another person’s heart…the pain is deeper than anyone can imagine.
And does it go away….I can only answer that from where I sit….NO. But does it get easier….I can only answer that also, from where I sit…YES. Easier how….it’s called acceptance. It’s called developing new habits. It’s called….finding those ways to fill those holes…and being deliberate in doing so. It’s deciding yourself….with no one else tugging of your heart…that YOU WANT TO FIND JOY ONCE AGAIN. And then…it can happen. I encourage you..….seek JOY once again. YOU ARE WORTH IT!!!
Lillian Adrian – Advanced Grief Facilitator, Author and Consultant.
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