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       THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDSYOU NEED NOT WALK ALONE, WE ARE THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS

 

LAKEVIEW/NEW ORLEANS   CHAPTER 1615

Grief support after the death of a child

The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to  assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.

The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization that offers friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and there are no membership dues or fees.
 

The secret of TCF's success is simple: As seasoned grievers reach out to the newly bereaved, energy that has been directed inward begins to flow outward and both are helped to heal. The vision of The Compassionate Friends is that everyone who needs us will find us and everyone who find us will be helped.

  "To Live in the Hearts   

           We Leave Behind is Not To Die"

  

Remember how I laughed,
Remember how I loved.
Use me as the reason you embrace life,
Not the reason you don't.
 

 

           On Monday, January 12, 2009, at 7:00 PM, will be our monthly meeting date.  We will meet at East Jefferson Hospital, in the Esplanade 2 Room. New Members Come at 6:45 PM.

          

 

 

Mark your calendar with these dates for future meetings:

       February9; March 9

 

 

 

Grief work will have to be done eventually and our literature tells us it will be worse when put off or delayed.

Fay Harden

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    For those of you who are hurting too deeply, whose pain is too fresh, whose child's death is still too close to hear me, I'd like to give you the message "Hold on, hold on tight."  Right now for you, there seems to be little sunshine, little hope and no energy to choose life.  So hang on tight.

    And if you know someone who is struggling just to hang on, reach out to them right now.  Loan them some of your strength, knowing they will loan you some of theirs when you need it.  That's what TCF is all about; helping each other through the anger, the pain, the emptiness, the silence -- helping each other rediscover life.

    We have to learn to dream new dreams and hope new hopes, and it is here with the love and support of our new family of friends that our journey begins.             Author unknown

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The bond among grieving parents is close.  It is unfathomable.  It cannot be entered into by outsiders, but it is known to each of us.  A quick look, an acknowledgment, and we know immediately the agenda of suffering we have in common and that there is no fact of our lives more important than this:

I had a child who died.

I Will Not Leave You Desolate by Martha Whitmore Hickman

You Need Not Walk Alone:  Listening can turn grief into growth.  We do not take grief away from people, we simply help them walk through it -- by talking it out.  They need to talk to a good listener.  A good listener is a walking, touching, personal intensive care unit.   

Doug Manning,Comforting Those Who Grieve

 

 

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