Pemi-Baker Hospice & Home Health Starting New Grief Support Group Session: ‘The Journey Through Loss and Grief’
Throughout the ages of humankind, storytellers have spun tales which have fascinated the minds and imaginations of folks young and old as ways to help them discover their own inner strengths to confront the difficulties of life as we come to experience them. Probably no emotional journey is more challenging and difficult than that of loss and the feelings of grief that accompany it.
We do not have to wait long for such experiences. The boy next door, out of innocent curiosity drops a rock on a plastic rattle belonging to the little girl upstairs to see what makes its noise. The girl has lost her toy. The boy gets punished. Years move on. There are fun things that happen, but then the boy doesn’t make the softball team, or the girl doesn’t get the part in the play. Life moves on. She wins a prize in field hockey. Pets die. Boys or girls we develop crushes on don’t feel the same affection for us. Then we leave home to find our own paths in life. And on and on and on and on.
In between the good things, there are other things that hurt us, and we make our way on our journey, most of the time probably not knowing that we’re learning how to handle our losses and composing our own personal story. And then someone truly special we love is lost to us- by natural death, an accident, or by a violent crime, and our heart and soul hurt terribly and somehow, we need to move through all of that hurt if we are to continue to live and face a big challenge we’ve never had to face before. It helps to think about what we may have learned along the way so far and if that can help us now. Life is no fairy tale. But each of us has an interesting story.
The next six-week session, grief and bereavement group “The Journey Through Loss and Grief” offered by Pemi-Baker Hospice and Home Health will begin on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 10:30am in the upstairs art room (accessible by elevator) at the Plymouth Regional Senior Center. Please arrive before 10:15am to get a parking slip for the dashboard of your car from the receptionist at the front desk. There is no cost for participation.We are experiencing increased demand for participation. Please contact Guy Tillson, Hospice Chaplain, via email at gtillson@pbhha.org or by phone at 603 536-2232 to pre-register.
~written by Guy Tillson