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 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
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
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
“Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.”
– Romans 12:15
Perhaps you have heard this quote and even followed it in caring for others. But what about you in your loss? Have you allowed others to weep with you?
There is a tendency in grief to hide emotions, put on a happy face or to keep a “stiff upper lip.” You might think you are just maintaining your composure or showing courage, but it may also be a sign of your reluctance in letting others enter your world of grief. Grief may be an individual experience, but grief does not have to be experienced alone. In fact, it should not be faced alone. Allowing others to share in your grief has a number of positive benefits, but it also avoids some perils.
One such peril is excessive lingering over your loss. In first hearing, this may sound a little insensitive to what you feel. However, “excessive lingering” is not about denying what you feel. Rather, it is about not staying in a place longer than necessary.
You might linger for a few extra minutes in the sunshine because of the warmth on your face, but hours spent in the sun can have many detrimental effects. So, too, with sadness—it is something to be felt, but it is not a place to linger too long. Sadness in grief, along with anger and fear, can often be emotions that entrap you. They are felt, but by staying in them too long, they can become pits too deep to climb out of.
Allowing others to walk with you in your journey through grief can help in avoiding such traps. They can help direct you when your eyes are filled with tears. They can give hope when you are heading toward despair. And most importantly, they can be there when you need a hand to lift you out of the pit in which you find yourself.
Having trouble finding someone who will weep with you? Consider attending a grief support group or contact a Tabitha Bereavement Coordinator.
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.”