Suicide Griever’s Support Group
Healing after a Loved One’s Suicide
Purpose of the Group
The purpose of this group is to support survivors of suicide loss.
Our group is intentionally unstructured. It is a space where survivors can openly share their grief, experiences, and emotions. We listen to others who understand this unique kind of loss, and we support each other through the grief.
Suicide grief often includes unanswered questions, complicated emotions, and feelings of isolation. Many of us find it difficult to talk about these experiences in everyday life. In this group, members can speak freely and be heard without judgment.
There is no pressure to share. People may speak as much or as little as they feel comfortable. Simply being in a space with others who understand can bring connection, understanding, and support.
No one should have to face this kind of loss alone.
Principles Behind the Group
This group is guided by the principles described in A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life by Parker J. Palmer.
Palmer believes in the importance of creating healing spaces where people can speak honestly about their lives and be heard with respect and compassion. In these healing spaces, the goal is not to fix one another or to give answers. The goal is to listen deeply and allow each person to explore their own experiences in their own way.
Palmer describes this kind of community as a place where the inner life can be expressed safely. The soul itself is often the best teacher, and when people are given room to reflect without judgment, healing and understanding can begin to emerge naturally.
Our group follows these principles. It is a space where members can share their grief, listen to others, and heal together naturally. Together, in this shared space of compassion, we begin to find meaning, connection, and hope.
Meetings are held in Sebastian, FL.
Contact us today to start your healing journey.
“We cannot force the soul to reveal itself, but we can create spaces that invite the soul to show up.”
— Parker J. Palmer
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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
Healing moves at its own pace, What is a burden one day may be a gift another day.
I will be free to turn away from my grief when I can. Life is not an endurance test.
The ups and downs of “inner weather” are part of my healing.
To allow myself to revel in simple joys will ease me into new hope, new courage for life.
I will relax into the memory and spiritual presence of my loved one, and feel at peace.
If part of my legacy from sorrow is new strength, I will embrace it. I will not turn away.
As I am able, I will reenter the world around me with courage and expectation.
Sometimes the veil between the living and the dead seems thin, and lighter than air.
I have the power—and responsibility—to keep my life moving.
I am grateful, from the bottom of my heart, that I have shared the life of my loved one. And I trust that someday my happiness, as I remember our life together, will far outweigh the grief I feel now.
As I repeat some of the patterns of our life together, I can sense the presence of My loved one.
For a time sorrow takes up the whole landscape, but my joy will come again.
I will use all the wisdom and power I possess to come through this well.
I feel a wonderful freedom when I stop imagining my future sadness and live only in the present.
Give me the courage for the long haul, and courage for each day’s journey.
It isn’t for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Grief is like a refiner’s fire. It will leave me with something beautiful.
I am grateful from the core of my being for the life I have shared with my loved one.
I will hold before myself the promise of a renewed and joyful life.
I knew that the full acceptance of the finality of loss, and all the pain that goes with it, need not diminish life but could give it a new quality of fulfillment. I also knew that this could not be achieved without going through the agonies of grief and mourning. – Lily Pincus
I will not try to shortchange the process of grieving, I will take one day at a time.
As I have learned to trust the turning of the seasons, may I trust the life that supports in my journey through grief.
Where do I start?
Know that you are not alone.
It can be so powerful to connect with other grievers and such a relief to be able to talk openly about suicide with people who understand.
Come to talk.
Come to listen.
Come to share your experience.
Come to support others.
Come to begin your healing.
The time required for healing cannot be neatly measured against any calendar. Piece by piece, you begin to re-enter the world.
Suicide
The most complicated, the least understood human behavior.
Grief will touch all areas of your life.
Spiritual: You may question your beliefs.
Psychological: Interferes with clear thinking, decision making, memory and involves a wide variety of feelings and reactions.
Physical: Takes more energy than you ever imagined.
Social: Others often have unrealistic expectations about your mourning and may respond inappropriately to you.
Purpose:
To share experiences about the death of a loved one and your grief.
Guidelines:
A safe, welcoming place
Confidentiality is observed
Sharing only as you are comfortable to do so.
Your story is true and unique and not open to comparison.
Thoughts and feelings are neither right or wrong.
They just are.
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