Grief Webinars
Surviving the Holidays webinars
The holidays can be a time fraught with pain when we have lost a loved one. Add in a pandemic and our grief becomes complicated because we may not be able to be with our loved ones or cannot hold traditional funerals or memorials. Sometimes, our grief isn’t acknowledged in traditional ways, which compounds those hard emotions. And we can feel lost in a time that’s all about happy family gatherings. Join grief experts with the Peggy F. Murphy Community Grief Center, a service of Visiting Nurse, for two webinars on grieving during the holidays Surviving the Holidays – Grieving through Uncertain Times (Part One) will debut Thursday, Nov. 18 from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. and Surviving the Holidays – Making it Through your Losses (Part Two) will begin on Thursday, Dec. 16, from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. These webinars will provide support for those who are grieving and will be available on our website into the new year if you can’t watch the live events. Register for the webinars below. You will receive a link to the Zoom webinars.
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Surviving the Holidays 2021: Part OneZoom requires all recordings to have a password: 8w?3$+!#
Visiting Nurse’s Peggy F. Murphy Community Grief Center hosted a series of live webinars: “Grief and Coping in the Era of Covid-19”. These webinars, made possible by the generous support of the Foellinger Foundation’s Rapid Innovation grant, encompass coping methods for those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 and to those anticipating such a loss or are struggling with the disease.
The pandemic has brought up complicated feelings of grief for many in the community, from family members who have lost loved ones, to the front-line medical personnel who are treating COVID-19 patients. The “normal” grieving process has been interrupted by this pandemic due to loved ones not being able to be at the bedside of patients as they are dying or not being able to attend funerals because of the distancing measures that have been put in place.
“We know that individuals are struggling with processing grief and loss at this time and our grief counselors can help through this complicated grief,” Visiting Nurse CEO Leslie Friedel noted. “Each year, our grief counselors conduct more than 1,700 individual counseling sessions to provide support for adults in our community who have experienced the loss of a loved one.”
Visiting Nurse cares not only for seriously ill patients, but also for those who go on living. The Peggy F. Murphy Community Grief Center opened in 2015 on the Visiting Nurse campus. The region’s only free-standing center dedicated to adults who are grieving, the center provides individual grief counseling sessions, grief programming and grief support meetings for adults who have experienced a loss. Support groups focus on specific types of loss, such as groups for men and women who have lost their spouses or children, a group for the newly bereaved, a group for those anticipating a loss, and a group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. All grief sessions are available at no cost to participants.