Testimonials For Support Groups
After completing The Grief Recovery Method, I feel like I am a better listener for my friends and family. I used the methods learned in the book not to "fix the problem," but listen and be there for that individual and avoid saying things like "I know how you feel, just give it time, and don't cry." I feel like I am able to verbalize things that are bothering me at the time of the incident instead of bottling up feelings. I am working on dealing with the problem in real time instead of keeping quiet and letting things build up inside. I am thankful for my experience with Grief Recovery, I believe it has set me up for a happier future.
Support Groups07/13/2022
I believe the program has given me tools for grief recovery to be possible
Support Groups07/12/2022Participant in Vincennes, TN
It really helped me get over the grief I had buried and move on with my life.
Support Groups07/12/2022Participant in Vincennes, TN
It gave me skills to cope with the future
Support Groups07/12/2022Participant in Vincennes, TN
I learn a lot that I was grieving over my children, all the pain I caused to them, and how to accept that and carry it a lot differently.
Support Groups07/12/2022Participant in Vincennes, TN
Outstanding. I have even told my sister with stage 4 cancer to order that book and do the graphs. I realized I grieve so many things. Dealing with the loss of my father lifted a huge weight off my shoulders not dealing with it caused me even more grief. I can't be more thankful it was nice to have a teacher who shared and understood and who actually felt too.
Support Groups07/12/2022Participant in Vincennes, TN
Going through the Grief Recovery process was a first for me. I’ve had a LOT of loss in my life and thought I was handling it well or as well as can be expected. But the Grief Recovery Method showed me how I’ve been conditioned to handle loss and that there was still a lot of pain in my heart for things I did do and things I didn’t do with my relationships. I only finished the course yesterday so I’m still processing it all but I feel there has definitely been a turning point in the relationship that I worked on. I already have a few other losses that I’d like to work on and my instructor has made himself available to be my confidential partner in the future if needed.
Support Groups07/11/2022
Helped my look past loss to relationship and what steps I can take to release myself and others by working through and naming hurt and pain.
Support Groups07/10/2022
Worked on relationship with adult daughter
Support Groups07/10/2022
There was a set time period (8 weeks). There were specific steps to take that can be used for other or future losses. The facilitators were excellent. I now have other people (facilitators and other people in the group) to reach out to. The exercises seem to have mitigated the sense of loss I worked on.
Support Groups07/10/2022
Working amazing! Gave me the tools to be successful on my journey to recovery and healing.
Support Groups07/09/2022
Support Groups07/09/2022
I feel that the program helped me identify that many of my behaviors are grief related. It helped me to understand that in many of my personal relationships it’s good to sit down and identify the good and the bad, and two except responsibility for your faults so that you can release them. Making the lifetime line and your life’s events timeline helped to bring things to the surface that you had forgotten. And I’ve never been one for writing letters to people who aren’t going to read them, but I definitely think it helped and I will be using this method moving forward.
Support Groups07/09/2022
The myths about grief helped. I did not expect to go over my many losses when I first started, but I’m grateful that I did. My biggest fear was that completing grief would lead me to forget my wife and I was so used to swimming in sadness that I would not know how to recover. Completing is not forgetting-valuable lesson.
Support Groups07/08/2022
Support Groups07/08/2022
Every pastor should consider taking this course.
Support Groups07/08/2022Participant in Clearwater, Fl
The program has assisted me in saying good bye to my mother who has Dementia/Alzheimer's and to embrace the mother that I still physically have.
Support Groups07/07/2022
On a personal level I feel like this was a mixed experience. i enjoyed learning about the process, but i do not feel it addressed my personal grief and needs. It brought back a lot of negative experiences and trauma that I have worked hard to work through in the past, which has negatively impacted me emotionally. I did find the four statement areas to be useful. Creating those was more beneficial to me than writing the letter or saying them to another person. Some of this might be internal as I prefer working on things like this alone as opposed to in groups.
Support Groups07/07/2022
The facilitator was outstanding and the structure of the program
Support Groups07/07/2022
I've learned that grief doesn't just include death, but living relationships as well. I have a couple relationships I struggle with, and am excited to work through the process to complete the relationship. My in class partner and I are going to continue to get together to share, as we both found it fundamental in the process of grief. Thank you for taking the time and caring that others can grieve well and completely.
Support Groups07/06/2022
I experienced healing, support, encouragement through this program and I learned so many important things that I am going to put in place and focus on when experiencing grief
Support Groups07/06/2022
Support Groups07/06/2022
Support Groups07/06/2022
I know the work that I have left to do and feel empowered to complete it. I see the value in the program and believe it can address so much dysfunction in life. trauma, addictive behavior, anxiety, depression. The program facilitator was excellent and was clearly transformed through the power of the program and so inspired by that, that her passion comes through in all her teaching The program helped me to organize my loss in my mind with a coherent story that contained both aspects of my memories(positive and painful) to create a more balanced and truthful timeline of my relationships. It helped my to understand myself and how I relate to others more so than years of therapy, .
Support Groups07/06/2022