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.
Juanita Steenbakkers
Serving the Nebraska City Area
402.416.7365
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
Ancient Stoic Philosophers taught that it was necessary “to avoid too much attachment to anything in life, for that is where the overwhelming pain of suffering comes from.”
It’s true that some suffering can be avoided by staying detached, but the reality is that very few people live that way.
Instead of detachment, most people become more attached to the things they value most. In your closest relationships, you allow attachment to exist on the deepest of levels: emotional, spiritual and even physical.
Because of this, the loss of a loved one can seem overwhelming—especially if the level of attachment was built over the course of a lifetime, with the person who knew you best, the companion you shared so much with, the one you loved so deeply and over whom you now grieve so deeply.
A stoic approach to grief might allow you to avoid the feelings and pain of grief. At times, this detachment may be okay, but eventually you must allow your grief to reach the level and depth of the attachment you had.
Part of accepting loss is fully feeling the loss.
Yet, in grief, that is not where you will stay. The grieving process is a walk through the depth of grief. It can be a slow process with many lows, taking its toll on both body and soul, and at times making you wonder if it will ever end.
It is a journey taken one day at a time with the help of others, and it is always done before the one who knows the depth of our loss: “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” – Psalm 34:18
Today, if you or a loved one is feeling “crushed in spirit,” reach out to others who have walked this road before you. Allow them to help you in your deepest times of grief.
If you or a loved one need support, please 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.”