Framed family photographs and a candle on a memorial table

Grief support that continues.

Our team walks with your family for 13 months, and longer if you need it.

Talk to Our Grief Team

Four ways to not do this alone.

Grief counseling

Confidential one-on-one sessions with counselors who specialize in loss.

Peer support groups

A seven-week program, offered on an ongoing basis, with people who understand.

Celebration of Life

An annual interfaith memorial. Families bring photos and mementos, and many return year after year.

Educational resources

Curated tools for finding the healing path that fits the person doing the grieving.

Open to the community

You do not have to be a Covenant family to join a group or talk with a counselor. If you are grieving, you are welcome here.

What a group is actually like

The thing people worry about most is having to speak. You do not.

Some people come for weeks and only listen, and that counts. Nobody is called on, nobody is made to share, and nobody measures your grief against anyone else’s.

Across the seven weeks the group moves through an arc: understanding what grief does to a body and a mind, learning what actually helps, telling your person’s story when you are ready to, and working out what carrying them forward is going to look like. It is not a syllabus, and no week is a test.

The people in the room are usually not who you expect. Widows and widowers, yes, but also adult children, siblings, and the occasional neighbor who cared for someone with no family left. What they have in common is not the relationship. It is the size of the hole.

Listening counts.

Five adults of different ages sitting together in a living room, listening as one of them speaks

How grief actually shows up

It does not move in a straight line. It rises and falls without warning.

First weeks
Three months on
A song in
a grocery store
Years on:
quieter, still there

Grief does not move in a straight line. It rises and falls without warning: through the first weeks, three months on, a song in a grocery store, and years on, quieter but still there.

Exhaustion that sleep does not touch. Brain fog thick enough that you lose the car in a parking lot. Appetite gone. Chest tightness.

Three months on is when many people come apart, once everyone else has gone back to normal.

Anger at the person who died. Relief, and guilt about the relief. Hearing their voice in the house.

Flat grey weeks happen too, when you expected to be wrecked. None of it means you are grieving wrong.

You do not have to be in crisis to call

If your thoughts turn toward not wanting to be here

Call 988

or text 988

For grief support, call

480.321.8455

A nurse answers 24 hours a day. No cost.