Bereavement is an experience that touches everyone, but it is an event that no two people will experience in exactly the same way.
This group endeavors to offer you a safe space to talk about your feelings around the loss that you have experienced or the loss that you anticipate. It can be an opportunity to address issues, whether emotional, spiritual or practical, that perhaps are causing you distress, and helping you to find solutions to difficulties whilst facilitating a way for you to move forward and beyond bereavement when the time is right.
At a time of bereavement many of us feel the overwelming desire to talk about and explore our relationship with the deceased person, especially during the early stages, and often this is easier to do with someone who is impartial and uninvolved. This Bereavement group endeavors to fulfill that need.
Many years after a bereavement we can realise that we still carry issues that have not been properly recognised, addressed and dealt with. It can sometimes actually take another bereavement for us to realise that there is unfinished business concerning a past loss. Talking about these things with others can help you understand the dynamics of this and assist in helping you to reach closure on incomplete grieving and therefore move on and beyond bereavement, to a new, albeit different life.
Talking about our bereavements, allows us to express our grief, which can help start the healing journey through grief. No one can bypass the grieving process, and for many people coming to terms with the death or anticipated loss of a loved one can be a very confusing time when they wonder if what they feel is 'normal'. Grief can be a lonely journey, even with the support of close family and dear friends, and this is where bereavement counselling can offer something extra - a commitment to walk beside you while you complete the journey, a supporting presence should you falter, and clear signposting to ensure you get all you need to make it through.
We can help one another who have experienced difficulties with :
Accepting a loss
Family issues following bereavement
Isolation enhanced grief
Moving on after a bereavement
Disenfranchised grief
Spiritual issues
.....and many other issues.
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