44 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JULY 2019
Bereavement Group
One of the women in the group was telling me that she thought
she might not come back. She said that she thought she had worked
through the worst pain of losing her spouse and that what she needed
now was a safe place to talk about "how to go on living without him
and ways to fashion a productive, relatively happy life alone."
"And that's not appropriate for a bereavement group," she continued.
I am grateful that she and I had this conversation before she left our
group, because now she doesn't have to leave. As I explained to her,
learning to go on without our loved one is a big part of the work we do.
No matter who we lose, our role in this world will change. We will
no longer be a wife or a husband, a son or daughter, a parent to that
child, an aunt, or an uncle. And having a safe place to explore our
feelings, to get valuable feedback, to take as long as we need to learn
about how to fashion our new life, is all part of the process of learning
to live with our loss, without our person.
If you have experienced a loss, if you are struggling with going on,
if you need a safe place to talk, do come join us. You will be welcomed.
You will be accepted. You will be understood.
We meet on Mondays from 1 to 3 pm in the RCN Conference Room.
You can just show up, or you can call me first at (951) 922-0934 or
email to lauriemlarson425@gmail.com. All contact is confidential. ~
Laurie Larson
