Arkansas Hospice

“Speaking of Grief” is a monthly podcast of frank conversations about death, loss and grief presented by Arkansas Hospice Director of Bereavement Barbara Ross and bereavement specialists Jamie Boshears & Simone Brock. Episodes tackle topics and questions in a compassionate, and even humorous manner. Candid conversations address about how everyone’s journey of grief is unique to them, along with help for the listener to navigate their own path through loss. Special guests from time to time include real people – just like you – who share their personal stories of loss, the ways they have found to continue living with loss, and that while loss never disappears, time brings hope on the journey to healing.


Funeral Service Foundation

When a Child Dies: Planning Acts of Love & Legacy

The Funeral Service Foundation funded the guide and created it in partnership with the Collaborative of Pediatric Palliative Care Coalitions, and with assistance from NFDA. Dozens of bereaved parents, along with healthcare and bereavement professionals, also offered their expertise in creating this piece.


The Center for Complicated Grief

Understanding Prolonged Grief in the Time of Coronavirus

The Center for Complicated Grief is pleased to announce the launch of a webinar series for bereaved individuals and their friends and family.

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Living Forward Podcast

Living Forward is an uplifting podcast that covers the range of losses that reshape our lives. While these challenges can disable us in many ways, Living Forward digs deep into topics, guests and resources that encourage and shed light to a path that grievers at times cannot see.


While We’re Waiting

The While We’re Waiting ministry is based out of Hot Springs, AR and offers free Biblically based retreats, where bereaved parents form bonds and make connections with other moms and dads who truly understand the experience of child loss.  The organization offers podcasts, retreats and support groups all around the country.

 

Retreats

The Spark of Life Grief Recovery Retreat is a rejuvenating experience that awakens the hope of Living Forward after loss. Each Spark of Life Retreat, whether in-person or virtual, is open to anyone 18 years of age and older, with any background and any loss. Every participant is accepted as they are, and where they are on their grief journey. Come alone or with a loved one, and come expecting hope to live forward.

 

Online Course

The Spark of Life Online Grief Recovery Course is a self-guided study that infuses hope and healing into your grief journey. Although it cannot take away your pain, it can give you hope to live forward with your pain.

 

Coaching

At Spark of Life we have heard thousands of stories, from the loss of a marriage to the tragedy of burying a child. Our coaches have personally experienced monumental loss and are highly trained to help you grieve through the journey. We are not here to fix you because you do not need fixing. You need to grieve.


Community Counseling

Low-cost counseling for adults, children, families, and couples. Serving families in Little Rock and NWA


The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family. Today TCF has over 600 chapters serving all 50 states plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam, that offer friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members during the natural grieving process after a child has died.