GRASP 2012 Retreat
Join Us March 29 to April 1 2012 GRASP Retreat 2012 Where: Double Tree by Hilton Tampa Airport – Westshore. 4500 West Cypress Street, Tampa, FL 33607. Register Here! GRASP Retreat Agenda Thursday Arrival, check-in and Registration Welcome and Reception (7:00pm to 8:30pm) Friday 8:00am Welcome, Introduction, Gary and Denise Cullen 8:30 Gretchen Burns [...]
Why GRASP Facebook?
Writen By: Marilee Murphy-Odendahl I am a woman who lost her son, Ian Murphy-Mitchard to overdose on September 24, 2007. I found GRASP (Grief Recovery After A Substance Passing) while searching for people who had gone through this experience. What follows are my own observations and beliefs about this dynamic Facebook group. I hope [...]
Through the Looking Glass and Not Looking Back
Source: Cori Sievers (Jamie’s Mom) Since just before the 20th of June, 2011, the first year anniversary of my only son Jamie’s death, I’ve been in a new corridor in the seemingly endless labyrinth of grieving, and I just couldn’t make it out for awhile. I didn’t fall, I leapt into a path [...]
Please See Me Through My Tears
Please See Me Through My Tears You asked, “How are you doing?” As I told you, tears came to my eyes . . . And you looked away and quickly began to talk again. All the attention you had given me drained away. “How am I doing?” . . . I do better when people [...]
The Journey That we Call Grief
The grief we talk about here is real, gut wrenching pain, accompanied by all sorts of other emotions such as guilt, shame, regrets – all the “what ifs”, “should haves” that do nothing but drag us down farther. It is what it is and we go on from here. To lose a person you love deeply, someone who has been an important part of your life…maybe the MOST important part of your life – is devastating. Really, there is no word for it that equals the intensity of the feeling.
Everyone responds differently to their loss, and this fact makes it harder to understand each other when we find ourselves comparing her loss, to my loss, to his loss. We must try not to do that. Even if all experiences, all relationships were the same, each person’s response would still be different, and add to that, different from day to day, moment to moment!