Category: Support Groups

  • TCF Regional Conference

    TCF Regional Conference

    We’ve been doing some crafts lately. Making some pretty horseshoes. We’ll be going to the Frankfort Compassionate Friends regional conference this coming weekend. The people attending the conference will receive a gift bag. I don’t know what all will be in that bag, but I do know it will have a real nice horseshoe. The idea…

  • TCF Frankfort Website

    TCF Frankfort Website

    “Our” chapter of The Compassionate Friends launched a new website recently. If you live near Frankfort, KY and have lost a child or sibling you should check them out. They’re having a conference in March. Details are at the website: http://thecompassionatefriendsfrankfortky.com/

  • GriefNet.org

    GriefNet.org

    GriefNet provides email support groups for all areas of grief. There are thirteen groups listed for loss of a child. GriefNet asks for a $10 per month donation to be part of a group. They say no one is turned away for financial reasons. They do offer a one month free trial so you can…

  • My First Compassionate Friends Meeting

    My First Compassionate Friends Meeting

    I always take off from work several days before the Christmas break. I did so this year too. So I was able to go to a meeting of The Compassionate Friends at our local chapter in Frankfort KY last night.  This is one of the more active chapters going. They hold a meeting twice each…

  • Compassionate Friends

    Compassionate Friends

    Grief Support After the Death of a Child “The Compassionate Friends is about transforming the pain of grief into the elixir of hope. It takes people out of the isolation society imposes on the bereaved and lets them express their grief naturally. With the shedding of tears, healing comes. And the newly bereaved get to…