{"id":11005,"date":"2012-04-25T23:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2012-06-09T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T22:17:58","slug":"compassionate-friends-here-for-grieving-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2012\/04\/25\/compassionate-friends-here-for-grieving-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassionate Friends Here for Grieving Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Submitted by: Shasta Scott
\n<\/br>
\nThe Swan Valley Chapter of The Compassionate Friends held a public information session on
\nApril 19, 2012
\n<\/br>
\n<\/br>
\nPictured here are: Bob Lewis – Advisory Board member, Tara Fahrenschon – Chapter Leader, Shasta Scott – Treasurer, Kathy Highmoor (back) – Advisory Board member and Erin Clouson.<\/p>\n

The Compassionate Friends is an international, non-profit, non-denominational, self-help organization, offering friendship, understanding, grief education and hope for the future to all families that have experienced the death of a child at any age, from any cause. <\/p>\n

We are a group of parents that have all lost a child. We are not councillors and we do not try to be. We are here to listen and provide support for one another. The group is open to Bereaved Parents only as is recommended by The Compassionate Friends Guidelines.<\/p>\n

Our primary purpose is to aid in the reconciliation of grief and foster the physical and emotional health of the parents and surviving children. Our secondary purpose is to provide information and education about the grief of bereaved parents and their surviving children.<\/p>\n

Our parent support meetings will start on May 9th at 7:30 pm at The Harley House, they will always be held on the second Wednesday of every month. For more information, contact Tara Fahrenschon 238-4539.<\/p>\n

Compassionate Friends Creedo<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

We need not walk alone. We are The Compassionate Friends.
\nWe reach out to each other with love, with understanding, and with hope.
\nOur children have died at all ages and from many different causes,
\nbut our love for our children unites us.<\/p>\n

Your pain becomes my pain just as your hope becomes my hope.<\/p>\n

We come together from all walks of life, from many different
\nWe are a unique family because we represent many races and creeds.
\nWe are young, and we are old. Some of us are far along in our grief,
\nbut others still feel a grief so fresh and so intensely painful that we feel helpless and see no hope.<\/p>\n

Some of us have found our faith to be a source of strength; some of us are struggling to find answers.
\nSome of us are angry, filled with guilt, or in deep depression; others radiate an inner peace.
\nBut whatever pain we bring to this gathering of The Compassionate Friends,
\nit is pain we will share, just as we share with each other our love for our children.<\/p>\n

We are all seeking and struggling to build a future for ourselves,
\nbut we are committed to building that future together,
\nas we reach out to each other in love and share the pain as well as the joy,
\nshare the anger as well as the peace, share the faith as well as the doubts,
\nand help each other to grieve as well as to grow.<\/p>\n

WE NEED NOT WALK ALONE. WE ARE THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS!<\/p>\n

Joe Rousseau, Saginaw MI<\/p>\n

NOTE: The Compassionate Friends Credo written by Joe Rousseau,
\nwhile attending a TCF USA National Board retreat in November of 1982
\nwas unanimously approved as the \u201cofficial credo\u201d.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted by: Shasta Scott The Swan Valley Chapter of The Compassionate Friends held a public information session on April 19, 2012 Pictured here are: Bob Lewis – Advisory Board member, Tara Fahrenschon – Chapter Leader, Shasta Scott – Treasurer, Kathy Highmoor (back) – Advisory Board member and Erin Clouson. The Compassionate Friends is an international, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,16],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}