Loss of a Spouse or Partner

Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care – Bereavement Support Group

Loss of a Spouse or Partner:
The focus of this group is to help you cope when you find yourself in the world without your partner. Some common topics explored are:

>Integrating the love and history of your relationship into your newly developing identity, by strengthening the core of who you are as you venture into your new life.
>Mourning the difficulty of saying good-bye to your partner–acknowledging the difficulty and poignancy of good-bye
>Ways to practice self-care, even when you don’t want to!
>Holiday celebrations and modifications which honor you and your needs as well as your history together

Facilitated by Dairine Pearson, LCSW
805.690.6201 dpearson@vnhcsb.org,
Six Mondays, 9/11 – 10/16 2:00 – 3:30 pm