Fierce Compassion: Healing Help for Families and Friends Grieving a Loss from Suicide.

On Sunday, November 8th 2009, from 4:00 to 5:30pm, My Healing Place will host “Fierce Compassion: Healing Help for Families and Friends Grieving a Loss from Suicide.” We invite you to join us for a panel discussion and an open forum where we will address many of the specific struggles that suicide loss creates. We will hear personal stories from family members who have lost a loved one to suicide. In addition, we will hear from a professional therapist whose work has centered on helping individuals who have experienced a suicide loss, and from pastors who have encountered faith questions raised by suicide. The event will take place at the First United Methodist Church of Austin, in the Family Life Center (Room 104). There is no charge for the event, but your registration is helpful in our planning. Please call 512-478-5684 to register your interest. Click here for more information.

New DVD on Helping Children Grieve

with Khris Ford, Founder and Executive Director of My Healing Place
and Paula D’Arcy, Red Bird Foundation

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Few events in a child’s life can affect them as greatly as the death of a loved one.

This profound new video resource offers helpful information to adults (parents, caregivers, professionals) on how to help children of all ages grieve with hope and heart. You will meet two experts: Khris Ford and Paula D’Arcy, whose personal experiences with death give them intimate knowledge and compassion. And you will meet others who are now in the process of helping their children through grief.

Topics covered include: • Differences between how adults and children grieve. • How a parent can grieve and still help a child to grieve. • Three common feelings expressed by all grieving children. • How to be authentic and tell children the truth about death.

Khris Ford is the Founder/Executive Director of My Healing Place, Austin TX’s Center for Grief, Loss, and Trauma. She has spent nearly twenty years working with children and adults who have experienced a significant or traumatic loss. She holds a Master’s degree in Counselor Education, is a Certified Grief and Trauma Specialist and School Consultant, and a trained spiritual director.

Paula D’Arcy is a trained psychotherapist who has spent many years ministering to those who grieve. She worked with the Peale Foundation, founded by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, from 1980 until his death in 1993. In 1975 she survived a drunk driving accident, which took the lives of her husband and young daughter. Today her work includes leading workshops and writing books, including When People Grieve: The Power of Love in the Midst of Pain.

To contact us:

Mailing Address:
My Healing Place
2130 Guadalupe
Austin, TX. 78705

Physical Address:
405 W. 22nd St.
Austin, TX. 78705

Phone:  512-472-7878
Email: khris@myhealingplace.org