Grief & Spiritual Care
Grief Counsel + Weddings +
Celebrations of Life Memorials
NEW GRIEF RECOVERY® SUPPORT GROUP
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And take steps to heal your broken heart
caused by wide range of life losses and changes
Sunday May 2, 2:00 p.m.
North Bay GOLDEN AGE CLUB 135 Worthington St. West
1. IN-PERSON: gathering with social distanced, masked, sanitized protocols. **
2. HYBRID SESSIONS: using Zoom for those with technical capacity and interest.
Anne, Lorraine, & Esther
Will form our latest Grief-MATTERS team as fellow Co-Grievers
Each seasoned by their personal life losses in the School of Life
And our mix of professional credentials to lead you to lead you
through 8 two hour sessions.
Call/Text JEFF 705 493 9784
Call/Text Lorraine to register: 705 978 0344
Also Visit: www.griefrecoverymethod.com
I collapsed at 42, not knowing my own grief from incompletely recognized and communicated feelings. Then, I was "male challenged" I would call it. LOL.
I lost my primary work role. And I lost my mom, wife, best friend, da (the most important people in my life). And then my home, and more.... We each have a story.
I learned that I was Ok, except when I was not. I did not know if I was coming or going: so just did both.
I have recovered feel alive, despite and because of it all.
I am a Chaplain with a lifetime professionally assisting others as a multi-faith chaplain in psychiatric & general hospitals, correctional settings, and previously in churches, and in the community.
I realized that my primary passion was for grief care in all of its forms. I always noticed it and named it for others, then myself.
Society too often fails to know how to deal with it and not enough attention and resources exist. GRM is structured, clear, methodical, evidence-based, and most importantly, available! It helped me through mind bending losses, and became an effective primary tool to help others through the waves of crazy-making, soul wrenching, spirit crushing life changing losses and events.
My Learnings:
Kindergarten taught me how to share;
Sociology, about people;
Master of Divinity, about God talk;
Institute for Black Catholic Studies, to Sing & Move Spirituality;
Clinical Pastoral Education, about Spiritual care and SELF discovery.
Post Kindergarten and the School of Life:
Grief Recovery Method deepened my ability to BE OPEN and SHARE TALK WITH ANOTHER. I accompany people to the DEPTHS of their pain.... and onward from sheer survival to feeling alive again through both the pain tears and a joy laughter. Don't do it all alone. I tried that. Check it out.undefined
NEXT North Bay & Area
Grief Recovery Group 2021
(8 sessions)
Golden Age Club at 135 Worthington Ave. West.
(between Twiggs and Post Office)
Newcomers/First timers:
$50.00 Registration Fee (non-refundable)
$325.00 balance due at final Session when completely satisfied.
Alumni/Grads
Who completed prior groups can work together on another loss again.
Call me for details.
Contact me immediately to discuss any of your questions.
Call Jeff Soon: 705 493 9784 with text
7 STEPS dealing w/ your grief ---From Laura Jack a Grief Recovery Specialist & Trainer's website..
Click here:
www.laurajack.com/blog/7-steps-to-deal-with-your-grief-this-holiday-season
You may not like what I am about to say, jeff, but humor me for a minute...What would it be like to embrace this holiday season as an opportunity to create new traditions?
Before you tell me all the reasons why this year has sucked, which I recognize that there is absolute truth in that as well, what would it be like to let go of that sucky-ness feeling for just a minute and ask yourself these questions:
How has this year created opportunities for me to do things differently?
How have I grown through the pain and challenges that this year presented?
Who would I get to be if I let go of the idea that this year only SUCKED?
What am I proud of myself for overcoming? I deeply acknowledge that this year has been full of heartache and hardship. It has been full of so much grief, and I believe that grief must come before gratitude.
What I am grateful for is the honest conversations about grief that are happening more and more. Grief, as is defined by the Grief Recovery Institute, is the "conflicting feelings that come at the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior." This year is GRIEF. It is the conflicting feelings. It is the change in the familiar. It is what we wish was different. Better. Or more. It is a loss of hopes, dreams, and expectations. The challenge is, we are taught to deny and repress all the things that we deem as "bad", rather than giving them a voice, accepting, embracing, and loving ourselves and each other through all of it.
This year has also exposed a lot of UNRESOLVED grief that exists both individually and collectively, and it can be soooo painful. However, the worst thing we can do with unresolved grief and pain is to keep pretending that it doesn't exist.
So what can you do this holiday season, that is full of conflicting feelings that come when things change?Here is what I suggest:
* * Covid Protocols require:
• come with no symptoms,
• your own mask to wear throughout,
• bring your own beverage container,
• follow sanitizing routines
• keep 6 foot distancing,
• initial our Covid Sign in Register.
GRIEF GROUPS.
8 two hour sessions (in person or sometimes online).
GRIEF COUNSELLING.
One to one: online, telephone, and other creative safe distancing ways (car to car; outdoors, and more).
WEDDINGS 2021.
Despite covid challenges, a few more are on deck. Some are delayed or yet to be re-confirmed for the later dates. Some choose to celebrate with a smaller "rep" group and ZOOM it to others. We are trying things.
MEMORIALS & CELEBRATIONS OF LIFE.
We recently celebrated online via ZOOM. Graveside services, Memorials, along with Online Services can be imagined for most any location.
Contact me with your questions:
705 493 9784 with text
(Or use CONTACT button near top of page ---- right of "HOME" button).
Also consider visting
February 2020:
New Groups Forming North Bay/Area + West Nipissing at Sturgeon Falls. Call/Text Jeff for Info: 705 493 9784. See us on Facebook.
February 2020:
New Groups Forming North Bay/Area + West Nipissing at Sturgeon Falls. Call/Text Jeff for Info: 705 493 9784. See us on Facebook.
Grief Recovery Method Groups
Grief Recovery Method Groups
Grief Recovery Method is a trademarked tool that has been used for over 40 years
to support people as they face different losses including, but not limited to the death of a loved one.
It is an Evidence based method.
Losses come in all forms including loss of:
a relationship,
a pets or animal companion,
an employment or finances,
of health,
of trust
and of some 41 other identifiable life losses.
The Grief Recovery Method encourages a partnership approach to grief
because a structured listening and speaking format helps each person
to hear them self more clearly,
to discover a deeper awareness of incomplete communications.
and then to take an effective action to complete them,
in order to recover and begin to feel more alive, better, and complete.
Check out: www.griefrecoverymethod.com