Supporting You in Your Time of Grief
Tabitha’s comprehensive bereavement program offers support to spouses and family members during a time of loss.
Tabitha Hospice offers bereavement services for up to 18 months following the loss of your loved one.
- Individual grief support
- Grief support groups
- Educational grief events
- Phone call check-ins/support
- Remembrance services
- Mailings, including grief support, Embrace newsletter, resources and more
We’d love to hear from you!
Tabitha Hospice Bereavement Coordinators
Our Bereavement Coordinators provide grief support following the death of your loved one.
Jason Padilla
Serving the Lincoln/Lancaster Area
402.366.6791
Dan Rogers
Serving the Grand Island, Kearney & York Areas
402.366.6791
Sue Simmons
Serving the Omaha Area
402.819.4949
Grief Support Groups & Remembrance Services
Tabitha is proud to offer Grief Support Groups throughout the year as a service to family members and friends experiencing the recent death of a loved one. The meetings promote healthy conversation between a Tabitha team member specifically trained in grief support and a small group of individuals going through a common experience.
The purpose of Tabitha’s grief support groups is to equip participants with the tools and resources needed to reinvest in life.
Grief Tip Videos
Tabitha’s Bereavement Coordinators bring you words of advice, grief education, support and more in these grief tip videos
created just for Tabitha Hospice.
Grief Note
“My heart is in anguish within me…Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest; yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; I would hurry to find shelter from the raging wind and tempest.” – Psalm 55:4-8
Grief may feel like an internal storm. Not just a downpour of emotion, but a violent tempest threatening to tear you apart. Flying away from the anguish may seem like the thing to do. Yet where does one go when the pain is within?
Grief expert Kenneth Haugk writes, “Half the battle is just accepting the grief and letting yourself grieve.”
Fleeing from grief may take many forms. Perhaps you ignore your own pain by taking care of everyone else. Maybe you hold back the waves of grief by building an impenetrable wall, keeping others at a safe emotional distance. Or perhaps you find refuge by adding layer upon layer until the hurt is buried deep within. There are many ways. Yet contrary to what may feel better for a moment is the necessity to face your grief.
In doing so, you may initially feel distraught and almost despair; it may seem hopeless, but it is not.
Every small painful step toward acceptance will facilitate change. And, in time, you will have less of a need to flee from grief; instead, you will learn to walk with it. Memories that only hurt now can become points of contact with your loved one, and even provide a sense of peace and thankfulness.
So where can you hide from the grief inside? You can’t. And you were not made to do so. Psalm 55 concludes with this invitation: “Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.”
Grief Book and Podcast Suggestions
Sometimes finding the right book, website or podcast can help you process thoughts, feelings and provide helpful insight or information. Check out suggestions by types of loss.
Tips for Caregivers
Assisting someone under hospice care can be difficult. Tabitha offers a variety of helpful articles from managing anticipatory grief, taking care of yourself, visiting with children, reminiscing, communication, spiritual health and talking to someone on hospice.
Anticipatory grief is a hard journey, and holidays make it even harder. Here are some tips to help cope with anticipatory grief.
Caretaking, in any instance, but especially during hospice care can be difficult. Try these tips to avoid caregiver burnout and support your mental health.
The best thing to do for children before visiting a loved one in a hospital or senior living community is to prepare them for the visit.
Sharing past recollections is valuable for your loved one as they near the end of their life. Use these helpful tips to talk to a loved one about their memories and experiences.
Using social media to communicate about sensitive subjects, like serious illness or impending death, requires thought and consideration.
When dealing with a serious illness and death, spiritual issues often arise. Here are some tips to keeping the faith when grieving.
Determining how to approach a loved one about their chronic illness or death in general is challenging, but can be easier when you have the facts.
Grief has many elements. Sometimes we focus on one aspect over and over, also referred to as “looping.” Here are tips to help cope with “the loop.”