You will probably feel a variety of emotions when you lose
someone you love. The ability to make it through the death of
a loved one can be challenging. You may have feelings of shock
and disbelief, anger, guilt and depression.
Caring for yourself is not selfish. The period of recovery
is different for every person. There is no timetable for grief,
so don't compare yourself with others who have lost loved ones.
Your life has changed and healing in your own way is important
for the health of your mind, body and spirit. It's normal for
some days to be better than others.
The following sources will provide you with sound information
to help you manage your feelings and emotions at this most difficult
time.
Local Grief & Healing
Resources
Beginning Experience
This is a Christian support group located in Minot, North Dakota,
for those suffering from the loss of a partner through death,
divorce or separation. For more information call 701-837-0312
or 701-837-0728.
Camp Discovery
Offered to children six to 14 years of age who have experienced
the death of a loved one. For dates please call the Trinity Hospice
Office at 701-857-5083.
First Lutheran Grief Group
This group normally meets once a month (but not always on
the same day) at 7:00 p.m. in the Friendship Room of the First
Lutheran Church basement in Minot. This group is for anyone who
has experienced grief because of death, divorce, or any other
significant loss. They welcome all, and if you know someone who
might benefit by attending, please bring them along. Call the
church office at 701-852-4853 to find out when the next meeting
will be.
Trinity Hospice
This group offers three sessions each year entitled Hope
and Healing After A Death. These are six week sessions for people
who have experienced the death of a loved one. Sessions are offered
in September, January and March. Please call 857-5083 for dates
and the time of sessions. Individual counseling is available
by appointment at 857-5083.
The next series begins September 10, 2007, and continues each
Monday evening through October 15, 2007. Classes meet from 6:30
p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Home Health/Hospice Conference Room
at Trinity Support Services-Town & Country, located across
from White Drug in the Town & Country Center. Class size
is limited so you must pre-register. To register or for more
information call Carol Mohagen at Trinity Hospice-857-5083 or
ND toll free at 1-800-862-0005.
GriefShare Sessions
GriefShare is a special weekly seminar/support group for
people grieving the death of someone close. It is sponsored by
West Minot Church of God located at 1105 16th ST. NW., Minot,
ND. Church offic is 839-1407.
They will meet Monday Evenings 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at West
Minot Church of God, (West Entrance)
Topics include:
Session 1 Living with Grief
Session 2 The Journey of Grief
Session 3 The Effects of Grief
Session 4 When Your Spouse Dies
Session 5 Your Family and Grief
Session 6 Why?
Session 7 The Uniqueness of Grief Part 1
Session 8 The Uniqueness of Grief Part 2
Session 9 God' Prescription for Grief
Session10 Stuck in Grief
Session11 Top Twenty Lessons of Grief, Part 1
Session12 Top Twenty Lessons of Grief, Part 2
Session 13 Heaven
Online Grief & Healing
Resources
AARP
Grief and Loss Programs
After Loss Grief Recovery Program
Air Crash Support Network
Paul Alexander's Bereavement
Resources
Alive Alone
(assists bereaved parents that lost
as only child or all of their children)
Alliance of Grandparents,
A Support in Tragedy (AGAST)
American Association
of Sucidology
Association For Death Education
and Counselling
Bereaved Parents
of the USA
Boulden Publishing
(Publications for children in distress)
Butterfly
Crossing (A Memorial Journal For Infant
Loss)
Candlelighters
Childhood Cancer Foundation
Care giver
and Bereavement Resources
Center for Loss and
Life Transition
Center for Loss in
Multiple Birth (CLIMB)
Counseling for
Loss and Life Changes
The Compassionate
Friends, national office
Concerns of Police
Survivors (COPS)
Death & Dying
DeathNET
Global
Ideas Bank, Death & Dying Section
Grief Inc.
Grief Resources
Catalog (Books, Cards, Tapes &
Gifts)
GriefNet
Growth House, Inc.
GROWW (Grief Recovery Online)
In Loving
Memory
Life's
End Bookstore
Maximum Living
Consultant
The Mining Company Guide
To Death And Dying
National Catholic Ministry
to the Bereaved
National Center for
Grieving Children and Families
National Donor
Family Council
National Public
Radio's Series On Death
Parents of Murdered Children
(POMC)
Parents
without Partners
Renew: Center For Personal
Recovery
Remebered Forever
SHARE Pregnancy
& Infant Loss Support
Society of Military
Widows
Sympathy Sharing
Tragedy Assistance Program
for Survivors (TAPS)
Webster's Death,
Dying & Grief Guide
Wings of Light
Yahoo's
Grief-Related Index
