Testimonials For Support Groups
I've learned to accept waves of grief and not crippling pain that resurfaces. I also realised grief isn't just about death.
Support Groups09/06/2018
It is just the beginning of my healing process, but I believe the program revealed straightforward tools for embracing and releasing the deep emotions tied to loss. I look forward to a longer and steadier relief as I release each loss from my past. I caught a glimpse of what it might feel like and it is worth pursuing.
Support Groups09/03/2018Participant in aberdeen, MD
Writing the completion letter was so very hard for me. It brought up all the intense pain i had been feeling and even led me to have suicidal thoughts again. But the more i read and re-read my letter i came to realize that i was saying good bye to my grief, good bye to my pain.
Support Groups08/31/2018Participant in Collingswood, NJ
we just finished yesterday but I noticed all along the process that I was more aware that somehow beyond my understanding I was feeling listened to and better than when I arrived
Support Groups08/31/2018Participant in Collingswood, NJ
Marie was very helpful in helping me to uncover and better understand my own feelings. She was sincere and gave me a feeling of honesty and compassion, while helping to steer me along through the program. She was very good at applying the concepts in the book to real life, and my life situation in particular. The skills she helped me learn are not only beneficial for coping better with the death of my mother, but will be very helpful in coping with some of my current relationships that are not so great.
Support Groups08/31/2018Participant in Collingswood, NJ
I would recommend this group to anyone experiencing grief or loss. I felt safe and supported during a really hard emotional time in my life. The meetings and homework helped me learn new tools and ways of thinking. I am so appreciative for this experience.
Support Groups08/27/2018Participant in Oceanside, CA
I have learned so much about myself and my reactions!! I am no longer as depressed and isolated as I was. Even my co-workers commented that I look healthier and happier! I can't thank Thera and the other group members enough. Thank you!!!
Support Groups08/27/2018Participant in Oceanside, CA
I have had a group meeting to look forward to every week. I’ve now gotten complete with my dad and am living life totally new with him, like we get to start from scratch. This is also helping me see patterns with other relationships and I am seeing that I’m capable of having healthy, exciting, loving relationships again. I’ve also made friends from the group and am creating healthy, powerful relationships in my life. Loved this experience, will recommend others.
Support Groups08/27/2018Participant in Oceanside, CA
Helped me to define the grief I was going thru and realize how the myths were not helpful to my recovery. Learned what STERBS I used to console myself and how it doesn’t help but why and how I learned to use them. Really helped me to discover the baggage I carried with me and how not completing those life impacting events kept me from healing. It also helped me to see how it caused triggers in my life that led to negative emotions and actions. That was a biggie for me. Had given me the tools to deal with my grief, anger and negative emotions,
Support Groups08/23/2018Participant in Santa Clara, CA
I have carried the grief from my childhood, concerning the physical abuse my father gave me from about 9 years to my last beating with a belt at 17 years old. This damaged me in so many ways. Trust, not feeling loved, Not being good enough throughout my life. So much damage inflicted. The Grief Recovery Method helped me put the abuse in perspective. Taking some responsibility for the things that happened in my life. To say Goodbye to all the misery and Goodbye to my father for the last time. In order to move on from the past. ( my father passed away a few years ago) was unable to say goodbye cause we were in different states. Now, I have said goodbye for good!! I really appreciate the methods I learned and will use them on the many people I need to say the things I didn’t say and then goodbye!! THANK YOU GRIEF RECOVERY INSTITUTE! JT
Support Groups08/22/2018Participant in Boise, ID
The program demonstrated the need for me to identify and bring closure to all the losses in my life so that I could move forward. I will reuse the relationship graph until I have addressed all the losses identified.
Support Groups08/16/2018Participant in Mars, PA
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Support Groups08/16/2018Participant in Mars , PA
I feel confident to move on with this method of recovery
Support Groups08/14/2018Participant in Kent, OH
This was a program I never would have thought would be so significant me. I came to understand what was Greif and ended up discovering I had rooted Greif I never delt with. I walked out of the program understanding my troubles and learning how to take responsibility for them. I discovered so much things within me that I realized I was not dealing with. This program helped me to be honest within myself and face realities in a safe environment with no judgement. The curriculum is worth all the steps of getting to the root of an issue. It built patience within me that I did not realize I needed. It opened doors that I didn't realized I had closed. It awakened opportunities for me to address matters involving very significant people in my life that if it wasn't for the program I wouldn't have. It brought me to a place of realizing I am better for others when I am first loving myself for others. I can go on and on so I thank the brilliant minds that decided to put this together.
Support Groups08/13/2018Participant in Hamilton , Hamilton
So many incidences were uncovered that I thought I had gotten over. Understanding that it's alright express you feelings and to cry if i need to. That some of the things that we have been told all of our lives and said ourselves, really does not help. Things like, "put on your big girl pants, don't cry, time heals everything, get over it". Learning that grieving is not limited to the death of a loved one has helped me heal from some deep rooted anger and pain. It has also caused me to stop judging people whose behaviour my not be socially acceptable and to empathize with others who are hurting. More and more people seek me out to talk about their feelings because that they will be heard, will not be judged, will not receive any advice unless they ask for it and whatever they say will not be repeated. I realize that just about everyone is grieving and I want to help them heal.
Support Groups08/13/2018Participant in Hamilton, Pembroke
The programme helped me understand that grief is not only about the death of someone we love but it is about losses in every area of our lives. That those traditional phrases I heard all of my life, "don't cry, suck it up, put on your big girl pants, time will heal" etc, are not true and did not help anyway. I now have better skills that not only help me cope with trauma but with these skills I am able to help others. I have better listening skills and more empathy. People are seeking me out because they feel they will be heard and not judged, they will not hear the traditional unasked for advise and their personal business will not be repeated.
Support Groups08/13/2018Participant in Hamilton, Pembroke
It really opened my eyes to losses
Support Groups08/09/2018Participant in Santa Clarita, CA
Outstanding, Wes was awesome!
Support Groups08/09/2018Participant in Santa Clarita, CA
It made me really think about everything going on around me at the time of my brother's death but more importantly it was the loss of family, childhood etc. It also helped me to see habits good and bad that started back then and have brought forth the baggage into life now.
Support Groups08/08/2018Participant in North York, AK
Support Groups08/08/2018Participant in Pleasanton, CA
This material is deceptively simple, but very powerful. I thought I had read it all in terms of working through difficult emotional issues. But nope! It made a big difference to take the entire measure of a relationship and focus on three specific categories to address. I know I will use this approach on several other significant losses. Thank you for developing these strategies!
Support Groups08/06/2018Participant in Eugene, OR
My eyes were opened to the full spectrum of loss and how it affected me my whole life and now I know how to use the information for future losses. I am feeling free of a lot of unnecessary playing of tapes in my head and heart after taking the class.
Support Groups08/04/2018Participant in Edmonds, WA
The program has enlightened me on several things: 1. How better to interact with those dealing with grief; 2. The steps to take to complete things in relationships that are holding me back; 3. The honor I feel, and can in turn give another by truly listening without any interruption.
Support Groups08/04/2018Participant in Edmonds, WA
I feel that this method has given me tools to work through many kinds of loss and to identify losses when they occur. Even though I expected it to be about dealing with the loss of a loved one, I found it to have much broader application to the many kinds of loss/grief that this life journey has.
Support Groups08/04/2018Participant in Edmonds, WA