By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Losing someone is difficult, and an annual program at Brookdale Presbyterian Church in St. Joseph helps those suffering through their grief.
The GriefShare program brings together those who have experienced the loss of a loved one, to learn about and find their lives on the other side of that loss.
Organizer Debbie Lyons says the group brings like-minded people together, no matter if it’s the loss of a spouse, sibling, parent, or a child.
“You’re feelings are different with each one, so when you meet people, like I lost my spouse and my sister, and when I meet people that have that same thinking in their head and they have suffered that same great loss we can connect, and it helps to hear from other people who have suffered the same loss,” Lyons says on the KFEQmunnity show.
Lyons says this Sunday, the church will host an introduction to the GriefShare program with the Loss of Spouse seminar.
“That’s just what it is and we help people who have lost their spouse, whether it was yesterday, last week, or 16 years ago, to understand what’s going on,” Lyons explains. “There are things to do in the book, gentle reminders, messages from God, it’s a great resource for them to get, and again we’ll be at Brookdale Presbyterian Church.”
The seminar will begin at 2pm on Sunday.
Lyons says through the 13 weeks the courses will cover several topics of a person’s grief journey
“Why am I angry, is it normal to be angry? What to do with secondary things, like we are no longer a we, we are a me, how do we get through that with the secondary jobs with trying to do everything at once,” Lyons says. “There’s some on getting stuck in grief, there is one on am I normal? Well to me that is not a good word for grieving.”
GriefShare will be held on Thursdays with sessions at 10am and 6pm at Brookdale, beginning on August 28th.
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