The Covid-19 Pandemic has dramatically altered everyone’s daily lives, including how professionals support people grieving the death or anticipating the loss of a loved one during these uncertain times. Full Circle therapists are serving, adapting, and connecting to make our programs and services available to those who are grieving and need addditional support. We’ve opened up…
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By Allyson England Drake, M.Ed, CT Families who are grieving during this pandemic cannot gather with friends and family to provide one another other with support and care. These families may feel isolated or alone, which can intensify their painful feelings of grief. Friends of grieving families may feel helpless or uncertain of how to…
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Parents and children are invited to find a cozy spot at home and join us for Story Time. The books, read by our Full Circle staff and therapists, are selected to help children explore the difficult emotions surrounding grief and loss and will encourage gentle conversations about all of those BIG feelings. This week, Rachel Melhorn, Licensed…
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Welcome to Family Fridays — a series designed to give parents and children fun, meaningful activities you can do at home to explore feelings of grief and remember your loved one in unique ways. Today’s activity, adapted from the National Alliance for Grieving Children, “In Their Shoes,” supports children and families in having conversations about feelings and…
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Welcome to Family Fridays — a series designed to give parents and children fun, meaningful activities you can do at home to explore feelings of grief and remember your loved one in unique ways. What is #RVARocks? RVA Rocks is a local community project with the goal of spreading kindness to others. One of the things we…
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Full Circle is a proud participant of Giving Tuesday Now! What is #GivingTuesdayNow? #GivingTuesdayNow is a global day of giving and unity that will take place on May 5, 2020 as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. At a time when we are ALL experiencing the pandemic, generosity is what brings people…
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Parents and children are invited to find a cozy spot at home and join us for Story Time. The books, read by our Full Circle staff and therapists, are selected to help children explore the difficult emotions surrounding grief and loss and will encourage gentle conversations about all of those BIG feelings. This week, Rachel…
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Welcome to Family Fridays — a series designed to give parents and children fun, meaningful activities you can do at home to explore feelings of grief and remember your loved one in unique ways. This family activity helps kids to identify coping strategies to support them in their feelings of grief. Practice your paper folding skills AND your…
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By Maryse Eubank, M.Ed. When we hear someone has died by suicide, our hearts go out to those that are left behind. Grief related to a suicide loss can be quite complex and very intense. So how can we best support those who are the survivors, keeping in mind this may include their immediate family, but also…
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