[Magdalen] Ministry of Consolation

[Grace Cangialosi]

Jay, our local Hospice offers bereavement groups that are open to anyone in the community, not just Hospice patients or their families. That might be true in your daughter's area, also.

> On Feb 12, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That is really good, Jim. I'm not sure what I'm doing right now, dealing
> with mine. My daughter needs it worse, though. She is not doing well with
> her grief and it's piled up on her....her dad, her Nana, and her brother
> with whom she was very close, and then on top of that, the boy she
> literally grew up with. And she's not one to accept help easily.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:50 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> One of MY benefits of Marcy's hospice care is a minimum one year of grief
>> counseling.
>> 
>> -------------------------------------
>> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>> 
>> Jim Handsfield
>> jhandsfield at att.net
>> 
>>> On Feb 12, 2016, at 7:34 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My own exprience (both personal and in hospital chaplaincy) is that the
>>> bereaved are not well-cared-for in our society. People tend to avoid the
>>> bereaved, in some ways to help them maintain their dignity, also
>>> perhaps because they don't want to deal with the drama. I was never
>> lonely
>>> ever except in that short period of time after my mother died.
>> 
>>