Join us for COPE Walk 2020! Each year we walk to honor our children, siblings and loved ones who have passed and to support COPE families and the grieving community. However, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, COPE wants to ensure the safety and health of our...
It will be September when you read this column, but it will be unlike any previous September in my lifetime. You are living those changes just as I am. So many of us are frustrated, and angry, with our desire to go back to normal battling with the fear that persists...
The term compounded grief is exactly that, when all of our grief from over a lifetime gets lumped together, and then causes us to downward spiral over one tragic event. Every single person has their own way to deal with grieving and death, but it is important to help...
I try to read less news, watch less news, and worry less about the news I do see. I am not succeeding but I have, however, noticed a slight uptick in articles that have words like “hope”, or “better news”, or “peace”, or even ,”new recipes”. Even a bunch on how to...
A healing space for those who have experienced the death of a loved one due to COVID Please join Janet Zimmerman, LCSW-R on Thursday Evenings from 7-8:30pm From July 9th to August 13th, 2020 This group will take place virtually via Zoom. For more information and...
A healing space for those who have experienced the death ofa loved one due to COVID COPE is now offering a COVID GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Please join Janet Zimmerman, LCSW-R on Thursday Evenings from 7-8:30pm From July 9th to August 13th, 2020 This group will take...
Now what? For me, this pandemic started by the end of February. I had already bought a box of masks and one of gloves, both for me and my 90 year old mom. I found two bottles of hand sanitizer, again for each of us, and two of Clorox wipes. I had already spoken with...
It is three months into this new covid-19 world. Is it still possible to be optimistic? A pandemic of biblical proportions? An economic crisis that harkens back to the Great Depression 90 years ago? A political crisis that leaves my head spinning? There is a type of...
Grief during a time of social isolation Even under the best circumstances, coping with grief and loss after the death of a loved one is difficult. The world shatters around us and the things we thought we knew about life are called into question. Here is a list of...
I was thinking about how much I seem to be “taking” these last two months—nearby friends shop for me, neighbors walk with me, albeit masked and 6-8 feet away, my kids check up on me, my oldest friends call a lot, my siblings and I talk more, from short texts to long...
