Here you’ll find articles we have read and/or received from other sources as well as offering insights of our own. First, we would like to express our sincerest, deepest sympathy to everyone who has experienced the passing of a beloved person because of substances of any kind. This is the most traumatic of tragedies which, no doubt, has been preceded by weeks, months or, perhaps, years of emotional heartbreaking turmoil when you have searched, loved and tried to understand and help your special one. There may have been many times when you have felt absolutely alone in your despair as you struggled through the best way you could… wondering perhaps if you would be able to “weather the storm?” THEN—- NOW.
- 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 experi...
- Through the Looking Glass and Not Looking Back
Source: Cori Sievers (Jamie's Mom) [caption id="attachment_384" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Jamie and Cori Sievers"][/caption] Since just before the 20th of June, 2011, the first year anniversary of my only son Jamie’s ...
- 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!