Welcome, Grief & Healing
Where there is love, there is healing and where there is grief, there is love.
This space has been created to offer you several resources that may help you on your grief journey. We invite you to spend time here, return here whenever you're seeking support and invite your loved ones to come here too.
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Hospice & Spiritual Care Counseling Services are available through Quiet Oaks and the Chaplain Services of the Hospice Agencies. Quiet Oaks partners with churches and congregations of all faiths to serve the needs of our residents and their families. Please let us know how we can serve and support you in your grief journey.
This fellowship group is for anyone who is grieving and wants to learn more about grief in their own personal journey. These meetings take place via zoom, on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. Featuring a different speaker and a different topic around grief, offering a safe space to learn about grief.
This group is for guys only, providing a comfortable place for guys to talk about their grief or whatever it is they want to talk about. Come have lunch and hang out with the guys on the second Saturday of every month at 11:00 am, hosted in the Cottage at Quiet Oaks. Email us below if you have interest or want to know more.
The heart and soul of this group is that You Are Not Alone. Join them on the third Thursday of every month at 2:00 pm, in the Cottage at Quiet Oaks. This supportive group has created beautiful relationships while sharing in their grief journeys. Email us if you have interest or want to know more about it.
A guided meditation for grief, loss and sadness to ease you into a place of quiet and presence.
Death ends a life, not a relationship. Slides from a QO Fellowship presentation.
A Candle Lighting Ceremony is an intentional practice to recognize and honor the vast feelings we go through in grief.
Tracking your emotions and their meaning. A worksheet to print and chart your feelings.
This meditation will connect you to the beauty of breathing kindness for yourself and others.
A place to help you understand your grief using holistic approaches of the five senses and learn to integrate your loss in a healthy way.
A place where trained peers, companion individuals toward powerful healing.
A non-profit, community-based collaborative grief center.
The Nature of Grief retreats are designed to support you, whether you are navigating new grief or traveling with grief you've carried for a long time.
A wide variety of local grief support opportunities.
Redbird: Creating brave spaces for families and clinicians. Offering significant partnerships for integrating family perspectives into improving care through skills development, systems change and grief care for clinicians.
A grief group targeted for young women experiencing grief.
Jane Whitlock: What I Learned About Life From Death
Martha Atkins:
More Than Meets The Eye
Nora McInerny: We Don't "Move On" From Grief, We Move Forward
Michelle Meadors: Getting Unstuck from Grief to Live Life
Kelley Lynn: When Someone You Love Dies, There Is No Such Thing as Moving On
Author Tom Zuba talks about the 10 things he's learned on his grief journey.
Nora McInerny: Terrible, Thanks For Asking; A podcast collection
Alleviating human suffering and improving the collective well-being of our world through the practice of self-compassion.
Empowering people to proactively prepare for their death, so they are inspired to live a more fearless, intentional life today.
This site is full of resources and will help you re-imagine what it means to live fully at any stage of life.
This article from NPR discusses how our brains cope with grief and why it takes time to heal. "Grief is a universal experience and when we can connect, it is better."
Permission to Mourn - A New Way to Do Grief
Author Tom Zuba
Becoming Radiant - A New Way to Do Life following the "death" of a loved one. Author Tom Zuba
Gone From My Sight - The Dying Experience
Author Barbara Karnes, RN
Expected Loss: Coping with Anticipatory Grief
Author Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Bearing the Unbearable
Author Joanne Cacciatore, Ph.D.
Quiet Oaks is a residential home for residents and families facing terminal illness. At Quiet Oaks, we provide an experience that honors and respects the dignity
of our residents and their families by focusing on a team approach to provide comfort and support for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Quiet Oaks is a 501(c)(3) Tax ID 20-3905841