If you have been a funeral director for any length of time you have had one of those “cases that sticks with us”.  You’ve been in that situation where what happened or the family you served, or events you could not control “tested your composure in front of a grieving family”.

Licensed funeral director and embalmer, medical lab tech and a bio-hazard cleaning company owner/operator, Andrea Greig has been in those situations, too.  Tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 16, she’ll facilitate a peer support meeting to talk about the arrangements and services that activate a personal grief response, even as we provide compassion and empathy for our families in our professional roles.

Here’s what Andrea, through a press release from the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), has to say about the upcoming peer support event:

“Grief exposes itself in mysterious ways,” says Andrea, who first took up writing a blog and then authored a book as her way of processing this empathetic grief. “I have always enjoyed writing. I realized a long time ago that I could explain myself better on paper than I ever could out loud. I have found writing has, unexpectedly, become my form of therapy.” Participants will be invited to share their own outlets for processing difficult losses such as deaths of infants or young children, suicides, substance abuse, or violence.

Tuesday night, April 16 at  7:00 – 8:00 pm Central Time.

To learn more and/or access the meeting click here.

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