Support Circles
You're tired of saying you're fine.
Free grief support circles on video, twice a week. For people caring for someone who is dying, and people whose person has died.
Tuesday
9:00 PM ET
After work, after dinner, after everyone else is asleep.
Save my seat for TuesdayWednesday
Caregiving Circle
For people caring for someone right now. Email Caroline to get on the list.
Email for detailsFree. Registration stays open until the circle starts. Your name and email get you the link and a reminder.
You say fine at work. You say fine to your family. You say it because the real answer takes too long.
In this room, nobody needs it explained. Everyone here is caring for someone who is dying, or grieving someone who died. Some had years of warning. Some had none.
You Belong Here If You've Thought
- Did I do enough?
- Everyone stopped asking about him after the funeral.
- I'm exhausted, and I feel guilty for being exhausted.
- I never got to say goodbye.
- I don't know who I am if I'm not taking care of her.
- I should be doing better by now.
What Happens in the Room
- Someone says the thing you've been afraid to say out loud. Other people nod.
- You say your person's name, and nobody changes the subject.
- You hear how someone two years out gets through the holidays.
- You laugh, and nobody looks at you funny.
- You leave with one thing to try before next week.
How the Hour Goes
One topic
Each week has a topic. Anniversaries. Anger. What people say to you at the store.
One exercise
Short and spoken. No pen, no paper, no homework.
Open talk
Questions to talk through as a group. Pass on any of them.
Cameras on or off. Talk the whole hour or say nothing. Leave early if you need to.
No attendance sheet
Come once or every week. Miss a month and come back. Nobody keeps track.
Every stage, same room
Some people are one week in. Some are six years in. You hear from both.
Caroline Shelby is a certified grief coach and the author of Living Beside the Leaving. She spent a decade caregiving for her mother through Alzheimer's before she ever coached anyone through it, and she founded Grief Clarity Labs to build the support she couldn't find while she was still living it.