AFTER CARE
Healing and grief is not an event but a process that can go on for months and years. Skradski-Boyce Family Funeral Homes have the only full-time grief facilitator in the Upper Peninsula to help even after the funeral is over.
Lisa Myers, grief facilitator for Skradski-Boyce Family Funeral Homes, says "A professional grief counselor assists people to return to a level of emotional functioning skills and also enables them to return to enjoy life to the fullest extent possible, this is true wether you lose a spouse or child."
The most common experiences of grief includes, shock, depresssion, loneliness, confusion, guilt and anger. Sometimes it can take up to two years before someone who experiences a loss can feel the depth of the hurt and pain. According to Myers, "Some people go into denial while others find it difficult to go on with their lives."
All families experience grief after the loss of a loved one, and in many cases, find it difficult to know where to turn. Two facts remain true; many grief workers who are trying to help, operate without proper training, and second, grieving people crave the knowledge that they are not alone—that someone, somewhere, understands their feelings and will listen.
In addition to Lisa Myers, the Bethany Lutheran Church of Escanaba is offering grief support assistance, starting on Saturday, December 9, 2007 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, in the Bethany Lutheran Educational Center. For more information, contact Peg Hanson at (906) 786-5175.
St. Anne Catholic Church grief support group information may be directed to Charlene Carlson at (906) 789-9008.
Anyone needing additional information can contact the Skradski-Boyce Family Funeral Homes in Escanaba at 786-2750 or in Gladstone at 428-3220.
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