Ancora Compassionate Care Grief Support

10/12/2026

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday October 13th at Rockingham County Public Library - Stoneville Branch for story and craft time. We will begin meeting at 3pm each second Tuesday of the month at this location, so mark your calendar!

This month’s focus is naming emotions and discussing mixed emotions using the book ‘The Color Monster’. Kids will have a chance to play a matching game and either use markers or water color to make their own mixed emotion monsters

10/12/2026

10/02/2026

Grief brain and symptoms of grief are very real. Here’s a great explanation of what is happening in your body after a significant loss

10/02/2026

This week’s self‑care reminder is to practice looking for anything good in your day. Our brains tend to find what we are looking for. If we only look at how difficult things are, how different everything feels, or how heavy our sadness is, we’ll miss the good that still exists around us.

Even noticing one thing you’re thankful for, like the comfort of a warm cup of coffee, beauty of sunlight through a window, a kind word someone shared, helps train your brain to leave space for hope.

Takeaway task:
Write down one small thing you’re thankful for today. Just one. Let that tiny bit of good remind your mind that hope still has room to grow.

10/01/2026

When we lose someone we love, it’s not just our hearts that break, the view (or assumptions) we hold of our world shatters too.

Grief shakes the beliefs that made the world feel safe and predictable. Over time, we begin reconstructing meaning, finding ways to understand what happened and how to live within it. That process often reshapes our identity, leaving us asking, “Who am I now?”

Grief isn’t just emotional, it’s cognitive. It changes how the world works in your mind. These shifts in how you rebuild your world and your identity aren’t signs of weakness. They are signs that love matters. As you reconstruct I hope you find ways for that love to continue in a new way that honors what was and supports what is.

Takeaway task:
Today, write down one belief about life or safety that changed after your loss, and one new (hopeful) truth that’s slowly helping you rebuild.

09/29/2026

Self compassion in bereavement is very important. Be patient with yourself, take care of yourself, and talk kindly to yourself. It takes time to heal and adjust from such a significant loss and life change