Our Chapter’s Sharing Group
Locations:
~ 4th Thursday evening of each month ~
Dec. 22, Jan. 26, Feb. 23, Mar. 23, Apr. 27
~2nd
Wednesday evening of each month~
Dec. 14, Jan. 11, Feb. 8, Mar. 8, Apr. 12
Ask at the information desk in the main lobby for directions to the meeting room.
For those of you who are new in your loss, we hope that you will continue to share your sorrow with us and learn from those further ahead on the path of grief. Someday it won’t hurt as much as it does, and you won’t always feel “this elephant on your chest.” We encourage you to ask the family and friends around you for what you need and tell them when their expectations for you are too high. We hope you will explain to them that your grief is not on a timetable and will probably not ever reach what society calls “closure.” Explain to them that you will always miss your child or sibling but you will learn to live with a broken heart. We hope you will inform them that the mention of your child’s name is music to your ears and it’s OK to talk about him or her. Your TCF friends will be with you and hold your hand every step of the way.
- Carole J. Dyck, TCF, Vertuga Hills, CA
1. TCF offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents.
2. TCF believes that bereaved parents can help each other toward a positive resolution of their grief.
3. TCF reaches out to all bereaved parents across artificial barriers of religion, race, economic class, or ethnic group.
4. TCF understands that every bereaved parent has individual needs and rights.
5. TCF helps bereaved parents primarily through local chapters.
6. TCF chapters belong to their members.
7. TCF chapters are coordinated nationally to extend help to each other and to individual bereaved parents everywhere.