Beginning Experience
Help for Grieving Singles
Divorced, Widowed, or Separated? Beginning Experience offers help to hurting “single again” folks. The weekend program and optional post weekend sessions focus on a personal inward journey to begin a new life with renewed courage and hope. Grief, regrets, confusion, self doubt? You don’t have to go through this alone. This program is presented by a team of people who have each suffered the loss of a spouse through death, divorce or separation, and are willing to share their own experience to help others. Come to a safe place. Travel from heartache to hope.
For more information, www.BeginningExperience.org or make a confidential call to
Lyn at 412-448-9019 or Steve Smith at 412-367-4948 or
412-720-8694.
Beginning Experience: Help for Grieving Singles
By THERESA McHENRY
Widowed, separated or divorced? Don’t know where to turn? Struggling with grief or loss?
When distress, despair, anger or grief are trivialized, dismissed and remain unresolved, life may seem unfulfilled and aimless. The loss of self-esteem, together with feelings of sadness or bitterness, becomes a way of life. Wellmeaning people advise, “Get over it,” but it is just not happening.
Sometimes the pain of the loss of a loved one, either by death, separation or divorce, cannot be overcome quickly or easily. It has become a habit to utter, “I am OK” when asked, but inside there is a heavy heart.
Healing can start with a Beginning Experience weekend at a retreat center. Through the Holy Spirit, a safe and sympathetic environment is created. Listening and understanding allows wonderful transformations throughout the weekend process. It is not a quick fix. Rather, the weekend renews hope that a new life can be found beyond the pain. As published in the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper, March 11, 2011