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About Facing the Future
Our online groups provide a safe space for people to come together with others who have experienced a similar loss. Being bereaved by suicide is often described as grieving with the volume turned up. It can feel very different and more intense than other forms of grief and can leave people feeling alone and suffering from a kind of loss they feel others may not understand.
Facing the Future groups gives them space to talk openly, find ways to cope and to support each other to feel less isolated and better understood.
And here’s what our group participants say:
“Listening to how others felt and them asking questions helped me to formulate my own emotions and reactions”
“Learning to be with one's grief and to allow it in, is the only way through. Being with people that know your pain and that are not judging and are there for the same reasons as you is very healing and supportive. Facing the Future brought me into a circle of my people”
“The grief was still there, but I was no longer alone with it. Finally there were people who understood. Friends and family are kind and well-intentioned but often say the wrong thing in their efforts to comfort and console. My new friends at Facing the Future understood implicitly so there was no need to explain”