The Compassionate Friends, Inc. is a mutual assistance, self- help organization offering
friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved families. Anyone who has experienced
the death of a child of any age, from any cause is welcome. Our meetings give parents an
opportunity to talk about their child and about their feelings as they go through the grieving
process. There is no religious affiliation. There are no membership dues. The purpose of
this support group is not to focus on the cause of death or the age of the child, as it is to
focus on being a bereaved parent, along with the feelings and issues that evolve around the
death experience of a child.
WE NEED NOT WALK ALONE. We are THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS. We reach
out to each other with love, with understanding, and with hope. Our children have died at
all ages and from different causes, but our love for our children unites us. Your pain
becomes my pain, just as your hope becomes my hope. We come together from all walks
of life, from many different circumstances. We are a unique family because we represent
many races and creeds. We are young, and we are old. Some of us are far along in our
grief, but others still feel a grief so fresh and so intensely painful that we feel helpless and
see no hope. Some of us have found our faith to be a source of strength, some of us are
struggling to find answers. Some of us are angry, filled with guilt or in deep depression;
others radiate an inner peace. But whatever pain we bring to this gathering of THE
COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, it is pain we will share just as we share with each other
our love for our children. We are all seeking and struggling to build a future for ourselves,
but we are committed to building that future together as we reach out to each other in love
and share the pain as well as the joy, share the anger as well as the peace, share the faith
as well as the doubts, and help each other to grieve as well as to grow. WE NEED NOT
WALK ALONE...WE ARE THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS.
friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved families. Anyone who has experienced
the death of a child of any age, from any cause is welcome. Our meetings give parents an
opportunity to talk about their child and about their feelings as they go through the grieving
process. There is no religious affiliation. There are no membership dues. The purpose of
this support group is not to focus on the cause of death or the age of the child, as it is to
focus on being a bereaved parent, along with the feelings and issues that evolve around the
death experience of a child.
WE NEED NOT WALK ALONE. We are THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS. We reach
out to each other with love, with understanding, and with hope. Our children have died at
all ages and from different causes, but our love for our children unites us. Your pain
becomes my pain, just as your hope becomes my hope. We come together from all walks
of life, from many different circumstances. We are a unique family because we represent
many races and creeds. We are young, and we are old. Some of us are far along in our
grief, but others still feel a grief so fresh and so intensely painful that we feel helpless and
see no hope. Some of us have found our faith to be a source of strength, some of us are
struggling to find answers. Some of us are angry, filled with guilt or in deep depression;
others radiate an inner peace. But whatever pain we bring to this gathering of THE
COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, it is pain we will share just as we share with each other
our love for our children. We are all seeking and struggling to build a future for ourselves,
but we are committed to building that future together as we reach out to each other in love
and share the pain as well as the joy, share the anger as well as the peace, share the faith
as well as the doubts, and help each other to grieve as well as to grow. WE NEED NOT
WALK ALONE...WE ARE THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS.
| Compassionate Friends Credo |
Monmouth County Chapter - Holmdel
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