Are You Grieving a Loss?

This page lists resources that provide support for those who have lost a loved one due to a substance use disorder or related illness. If you are aware of other resources for grief support, please send the information to info@conversation.zone

Support Groups

A Brother’s Love

A professionally facilitated, live online support group to address feelings of sibling loss due to the disease of addiction.
Email: abrotherslovee@gmail.com | Visit on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abrotherslovekbjm

At a Loss

This ongoing monthly support group is available to any parent who is suffering the loss of a child due to substance abuse. The purpose of this group is to provide a place for parents to offer each other guidance, hope, understanding, and healing. Contact Nancy Buckwalter, LCSW at nancybuckwalter@comcast.net or 484-888-2075.

Compassionate Friends

The Compassionate Friends is about transforming the pain of grief into the elixir of hope. It takes people out of the isolation society imposes on the bereaved and lets them express their grief naturally. With the shedding of tears, healing comes. And the newly bereaved get to see people who have survived and are learning to live and love again.

For Jonathan’s Sake: Beyond the Broken Heart – A Path to Healing

A therapeutic grief support group to address feelings of parents after the loss of a child due to the disease of addiction. Steps4Hope Foundation invites you attend the professionally facilitated group on Tuesday nights from 6:30-8:15 pm at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Phoenixville. For details, contact Pam Moules 610-247-1920. .

Good Grief Group (at Nourishing Storm in Hatboro, PA)

Meetings are held monthly.
Where there is grief, there is loss. But there is also an incredible amount of love to receive and an wonderful opportunity to heal and rebuild. Please join us a monthly gathering in a safe space to share your story, your love and your healing.

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GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing)

Meetings are held all around the country. Pennsylvania locations include Philadelphia, Ambler, Bristol, Indiana, Kingston, Allentown, and Red Lion) >> Visit the website to find a meeting near you.
GRASP was founded to help provide sources of help, compassion and most of all, understanding, for families or individuals who have had a loved one die as a result of substance misuse or addiction.

GriefShare

GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone.

HealGrief

A social support network that is there when everyone else goes away, and the real grieving begins. Everything they do is inspired by their core belief that no one should ever grieve alone. HealGrief provides the tools and resources to guide one’s journey with grief into a healthy personal growth.

Helping Hand Grief Support

Currently we are holding on-line video support utilizing Zoom Communications, with the various supports groups listed on our site. Group support meetings are held on Monday evenings starting at 7:00pm, but you must first contact us to receive an invitation.

Kacie’s Cause Grief Support Group

Meetings are held on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays each Month in Chadds Ford, PA.
Moderator Kim Engstrom, M.S. Counselor leads this Grief Support Group, which is open to anyone who has experienced a loss in their life. Come learn helpful coping strategies, develop a support network and share your experiences (if you wish) with others in a small group environment.

OASIS Community Center

Grief & Loss Support Groups are available in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (some are in-person and some are virtual) for various age levels and relationships.

Peter’s Place

Peter’s Place provides safe and supportive environments for grieving children and families and acts as a community resource to foster understanding of the effects of death and grief.

Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor provides support groups for children, teens, young adults and parents/caregivers that have experienced the death of a loved one. All groups are held at the Abington Health- Schilling Campus, Pennwood Building, 4th floor. Groups are led by trained, experienced facilitators in a caring and supportive atmosphere.

Other Helpful Websites & Articles

A Bed for My Heart

A Bed For My Heart exists as a haven for families who have experienced one of life’s cruelest tragedies: the loss of a child, at any age/gestation and from any cause of death. We believe in compassionate grief support, heart to heart, person to person, parent to parent, mom to mom. We believe a hearty mix of compassion, unconditional love and support can make the unbearable, bearable. It can transform horror into honor and legacy.

Article: “Appreciating the Plain Fact of Human Sorrow” by Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.

Finding richness, meaning and purpose in sorrow.

Center for Loss & Life Transition

Led by death educator and grief counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt, we are an organization dedicated to helping people who are grieving and those who care for them. Perhaps someone you love has died, or you want to help a grieving friend or family member. Or maybe you are a professional or volunteer grief caregiver. Either way, we are here to offer resources and understanding.

Love Bulb Co.

To creatively honor and share love & loss through making products, employing and supporting women in recovery, sharing healing practices, and always and all ways “keeping the door to her life open.”

Podcast: Life After Loss

You’ve probably heard that people who lose a loved one may go through what are known as the “five stages” of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But many people find that their grief doesn’t follow this model at all. In this “Hidden Brain” podcast, Shankar Vedantam talks with resilience researcher Lucy Hone, who shares the techniques she learned to cope after a devastating loss in her own life.