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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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 finds meaning in sharing their grief journeys and is facilitated by AnnElise Bergstrom, MA, Certified in Grief Support.
Email us if you have interest.
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.
KJS Legacy - Suicide Loss Prevention Group was created as a support group for anyone struggling to find support or having suicidal thoughts themselves.
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.
Brighter Days Grief Center of MN offers free, short-term grief support for youth, young adults, adults and families.
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.
Grief Club of MN offers free grief support for children, teens and their families.
A grief group targeted for young women experiencing grief.
We protect our hearts - emotionally and physically - tucking them away from hurt. Yoga can be a safe space, a clear moment, a way to sit with what's uncomfortable, a chance to find your breath.
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.
This downloadable booklet contains 26 reflections of grief. You can use this booklet for personal meditation or reflection, to learn more about your own grieving, and as a point of reference for how to discuss grief with others.
This downloadable booklet contains 40 reflections on anxiety. You can use this booklet for personal meditation or reflection, to learn more about your own anxiety, and as a point of reference for how to discuss anxiety with others.
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