North Shore-Boston Chapter
The Compassionate Friends
North Shore - Boston Chapter
Grief Support after the Death of a Child
This website is dedicated to the memory of all of our children.
The Mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.
We are a national nonprofit, self-help organization that offers friendship, understanding and hope to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. Our meetings are open to all family members who are grieving the death of a child. There is no religious affiliation and no dues or fees.
WE NEED NOT WALK ALONE
WE ARE THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS
MESSAGE on COVID-19
Since April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our chapter has been holding bi-monthly online video meetings in lieu of our in-person chapter meetings. As of January 2021, we added one in-person meeting per month to our meeting schedule. The in-person meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month and are limited to 15 participants. We will continue to hold our bi-monthly online video meetings on the first Monday and the third Wednesday of each month.
The August online video meetings will be held at 7:30 PM on Monday, August 2nd and Wednesday, August 18th. The in-person meeting will be held at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, August 25th. COVID guidelines will be followed at the in-person meetings, including wearing masks and keeping socially distant. An email invitation will be sent to members prior to each meeting. You may also request an invitation by emailing tcfnoshoreconnect@gmail.com to let us know that you would like to participate.
In addition to our online chapter meetings, other support options are listed below:
1) TCF Live Chats: The National TCF website offers scheduled Live Chat sessions on different days and with different topics. The details can be found here: National TCF Live Chat Schedule
2) Private Facebook Groups: TCF offers several private Facebook groups facilitated by bereaved parents, grandparents or siblings. They can be accessed here: TCF Private Facebook Groups
3) TCF North Shore-Boston Facebook Page: Our chapter has its own Facebook page that is active with members from our chapter. You can access it here: TCF North Shore-Boston Facebook Page
Website Sponsor Messages
Our website is sponsored this month in loving memory of:
GALE McLAUGHLIN
You left us fifty-two years ago, Gale, and we have always felt that void in our lives!
Maybe it is because you were our only daughter, but we think it is just part of losing a child!
With all these years that have gone by, we also feel very blessed despite losing our daughter.
It took lots of time and grief work for us to get to that point.
We are blessed with three sons and their wives and five beautiful granddaughters!
So, to all those bereaved parents out there, we just want you to know that, for us, we got to a point to look for those positives and to be open to them and to have hope!
Those are our wishes for parents suffering the death of their child.
We love you, Gale!
Mom and Dad
BRIANNA PAUL
From the day you could speak you roared
Angelic curls and a smoky voice
From the day you took flight you soared
Landing only when forced, never by choice
When death chooses one so vibrant and bold
It seems to mock our reason to be
But lif and death could never hold
Nor extinguish the power of Bri
Love you always,
Mom, Dad, Erin and Eden
Chapter Meeting Updates
Our next chapter meetings
will be held on:
Monday - 8/2/21 - 7:30 PM
Online Video Meeting
(Email invitation to follow)
You may also contact tcfnoshoreconnect@gmail.com
to request an invitation
Wednesday - 8/18/21 - 7:30 PM
Online Video Meeting
(Email invitation to follow)
You may also contact tcfnoshoreconnect@gmail.com
to request an invitation
-and-
Sibling Online Video Meeting
(Email invitation to follow)
You may also contact Aimeeb15@gmail.com
if you would like to participate
Topic: Open Sharing Session
Wednesday - 8/25/21 - 7:00-8:30 PM
In-Person Meeting
(Meeting will be limited to 15 participants)
Please contact tcfnoshoreconnect@gmail.com
if you would like to attend
Topic: Family Dynamics
Facilitators: Dave & Tim
Click here for our 2021 schedule:
In the event of inclement weather, necessitating the closing of
North Reading public schools, our in-person chapter meetings
will also be canceled.
Website Sponsor Messages
Our website is sponsored this month in loving memory of:
SHERYL LYNN BECKER
Missng you more than ever, Sheryl, as life becomes sweeter in so many new ways as your niece grows.
In the midst of that sweetness, your
absence becomes harder to bear!
I know you would have taught her so much! Sheryl, you would have played an important role in her life. I think about you and speak about you often when I am taking care of her.
Love, Mom & Dad
AMBER ZAPATKA
AMBER'S "SIGNATURE"
BUTTERFLY COINS GIVEN OUT
IN MEMORY OF AMBER
What the caterpillar perceives as the end,
To the butterly is just the beginning
Event Updates
See information below for upcoming TCF events:
44th TCF NATIONAL CONFERENCE
July 16-18, 2021
Click here for additional information
or to register:
Website Sponsor Messages
Our website is sponsored this month in loving memory of:
TODD MacDONALD
Todd,
Your willingness to help
anyone at any time,
your love of nature, the earth,
and all of its creatures,
create a memory of you
that will not die.
Your incredible spirit lives on.
Mom, Dad and Tracy
ALEXANDER THE GREAT WHIPPLE
Dear Alexander,
You should be going into
your last year as a tween.
We often wonder what
you would be like now.
Would you like sports? Or Art?
Or something all of your own.
We know you would have been
a wonderful big brother.
It is hard to believe you
have been gone from us
for 10 years now.
It seems like a lifteime ago,
yet it also seems like it
was just yesterday.
We miss you every day.
We love you so very much!!
Love, Mommy, Daddy
Julia and Elizabeth
Event Updates
See information below for upcoming TCF events:
A Flower Garden
For Our Children
June 27, 2021
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Click here for additional information:
44th TCF NATIONAL CONFERENCE
July 16-18, 2021
Click here for additional information
or to register:
Website Sponsor Messages
Our website is sponsored this month in loving memory of:
CHARLEE JANE CHARETTE
Charlee Jane,
For someone so small,
you left an impact so big.
We remember you every day.
Dec 22,2020 should have been
your second birthday.
We wonder how you would have grown.
Thank you for teaching us
more about love in your
six months with us than we
could ever have known without you.
We will never forget you.
Love, Mom and Dad
ROGER COSTA
In loving memory of
our son and brother, Roger.
Thirty years have passed,
but the wonderful memories of you
will be with us forever!
Love always,
Mom, Dad and Matt
Event Updates
See information below for upcoming TCF events:
CANDLELIGHT REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
12/13/20
6:30 PM
Click here for additional information: