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Family Newsletter January 2019 Thank you to Kendra Scott for their continued philanthropic efforts to support grieving families in the Tampa Bay community! Thank you for opening your store to help us to highlight Suncoast Kids Place! Kendra Scott, 1511 W Swann Ave, Tampa, FL 33606 CAMP ERIN TAMPA BAY IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER SAVE YOUR SPOT EVENT FRIDAY, January 11 th , 2019 6:30 – 8:30 pm Bay Hope Church, Bldg. B, 17030 Lakeshore Road, Lutz FL 33558 CAMP ERIN TAMPA BAY Lakewood Retreat – 25458 Dan Brown Hill Road, Brooksville, FL 34602 Camp Drop Off – FRIDAY, January 25 th 5 pm Caregiver Meeting (required) SUNDAY, January 27 th – 9:30 am When we are grieving, it is hard enough to live each day as it comes. It can be daunting to face a whole new year stretching out in front of us. We may be afraid of what the new year might bring. We may worry whether or not we can handle any more challenges. Our current experience of emptiness and loneliness may make us reluctant to face a new year. We might say to ourselves, “I used to be so busy. I used to feel so needed, so useful. Now it seems there’s nothing but empty space and empty time.” It’s bad enough to wake in the morning not sure what we’ll do with the day; what will we do with a whole year? Longing to recover the past can sometimes make us resistant to accepting the new year. The past was where we were comfortable, where we felt safe, felt good. Grief burdens us today and we fear the new year won’t hold anything different for us. We pine for the person we miss and the precious past we shared. We think about how it was, and wish we were back there. Approach of a new year may mean different things for different mourners. Whether we welcome, dread or ignore a new year probably depends on where we are in our grief process. The question is not whether, but how grief will show up, and how we’ll work with it.

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Family Newsletter January 2019

Thank you to Kendra Scott for their continued philanthropic efforts to support grieving families in the Tampa Bay community! Thank you for opening your store to help us to highlight Suncoast Kids Place! Kendra Scott, 1511 W Swann Ave, Tampa, FL 33606

CAMP ERIN TAMPA BAY IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

SAVE YOUR SPOT EVENT FRIDAY, January 11th, 2019 6:30 – 8:30 pm Bay Hope Church, Bldg. B, 17030 Lakeshore Road, Lutz FL 33558 CAMP ERIN TAMPA BAY Lakewood Retreat – 25458 Dan Brown Hill Road, Brooksville, FL 34602 Camp Drop Off – FRIDAY, January 25th 5 pm Caregiver Meeting (required) SUNDAY, January 27th – 9:30 am

When we are grieving, it is hard enough to live each day as it comes. It can be daunting to face a whole new year stretching out in front of us. We may be afraid of what the new year might bring. We may worry whether or not we can handle any more challenges. Our current experience of emptiness and loneliness may make us reluctant to face a new year. We might say to ourselves, “I used to be so busy. I used to feel so needed, so useful. Now it seems there’s nothing but empty space and empty time.” It’s bad enough to wake in the morning not sure what we’ll do with the day; what will we do with a whole year? Longing to recover the past can sometimes make us resistant to accepting the new year. The past was where we were comfortable, where we felt safe, felt good. Grief burdens us today and we fear the new year won’t hold anything different for us. We pine for the person we miss and the precious past we shared. We think about how it was, and wish we were back there. Approach of a new year may mean different things for different mourners. Whether we welcome, dread or ignore a new year probably depends on where we are in our grief process. The question is not whether, but how grief will show up, and how we’ll work with it.