Navigating Grief Together

A gentle reminder that our daytime **Navigating Grief Together** bereavement support group takes place tomorrow as normal.

📍 Bilton Club, Harrogate (HG1 4LL)
🕧 12.30pm – 2.30pm
🚪 Enter via the private entrance (blue door on the right)

Whether your loss is recent or many years ago, you're welcome to drop in for a cuppa, some company and understanding from others who are living with grief too.

There's no formal setting, no pressure to talk, and no booking required. Just a friendly, open space shaped, led and shared by people who understand bereavement from personal experience.

Always free to attend.

Drop in • Have a cuppa • Stay a while • No pressure 💙

This maybe useful for some people next week

Sometimes a song takes you back as one has done to me today.
My husband loved to sing...he would be the first to get a microphone in his hand and he could sing well...really well.

One of the first things he used to sing to me was a song called 'I have to say I love you in a song' by Jim Croce. I'm sharing this with you because Boom radio has just made me crumble when it came on the radio.

Suddenly I'm right back watching him sing...and seeing his face look at me when he sings the chorus.

Memories are beautiful but my goodness they are tough to relive.

If you haven't heard it, have a listen. It's beautiful.

I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song Provided to YouTube by BMG Rights Management (US) LLCI’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song · Jim CrocePhotographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits℗ 1972 BMG Rig...

Hope to see you tomorrow. If you haven't been before, you will be made very welcome. H

Hope you like our new design for our posters below. New name, new look...same comfort and support as always.

Hope to see you later. It's Monday!

Happy to meet you outside or arrange to come early.
07783 672873 leave a message, text, email or just turn up.
No booking required.

Why not make this week the week you come and try one of our informal gatherings. Just drop in for a cuppa.

Grief hits differently when it's happening to you. Only when you lose someone you love do you realise the pain others have been in.

Only now do you understand why even just breathing hurts.

Only now do you understand loneliness even though you're surrounded by people.

Only now do you understand how easy it is to say no to everything, preferring to stay home alone.

Only now do you regret the times you wished you could have some time to yourself.

Only now do you realise the pain!

Only now do you realise how empty life is with your loved one gone...spouse, parent, child, sibling, friend....doesn't matter who, because the feelings that scream from grief are universal when someone you love dies.

Welcome to the club you never chose...one you'll be a member of for the rest of your life...the grief club!

Well now you've found people who do understand. We understand and we 'get it', because all of these feeling you feel, we feel too. We are literally living them everyday too.

Grief changes, adapts, reshapes, and surprises you even years later. There are no timelines, no endings, no getting over it. There is hope though. Hope that time and support will help the load easier to carry. Hope that time will help the load feel lighter. Time has never been a great healer, thats a myth...but time does give space to heal and with healing comes understanding and acceptance.

"Navigating Grief Together" Is a group about supporting each other without judgement or well meaning 'advice'. It's about feeling like you can breath again and talk about 'your' person/s without anyone trying to change the conversation or judge you for grieving 'too long'.

It's about being with people who love to hear your memories and smile and laugh with you, not shy away worrying memories will make you cry.

We all cry, (even men cry) and thats always OK!
We also, laugh and chat too. It's not all doom and gloom.

You see, the thing is that when you are bereaved, often people unwittingly judge you.

You shouldn't be laughing, going out, eating too much, not eating enough, need to move on/too soon to move on, should go out/why are you going out, should smarten yourself up...its been 12 months/ what you doing having pride in your appearance..its 'only' been 12 months.

The list is endless.
Just know you're not alone.
Navigating Grief Together Is here for us all...for you....just reach out and come and see for yourself what other people gain from the wonderful support you will find.