Everyday, you save my life...

A few years ago, I enrolled in a class for graduate school, Grief and Loss Counseling, that I never thought would change my life or impact me greater than any class in all of my years of school. This class challenged each of us to be vulnerable to our own losses and to reflect on the meaning of "loss" and how different that can be for each person. I still think about my classmates and their experiences on a regular basis...now more than ever with the loss of my mother. There were people that I knew very well and others that I grew close to through sharing and grieving together.If you are in a graduate program that offers this type of class...I highly recommend it.

Through this class, each of us were provided with the opportunity to volunteer with a program called Drew's Hope. A foundation, The Drew Michael Taylor Foundation, created by a family that lost their child which helps for families to grieve through support groups and counseling. Graduate students who are enrolled in this class are allowed to facilitate groups with children, teens, and parentes in order to gain experience...but I think to each of us it became much more than that. I was blessed to work with the youngest group of children who just made my week - the connections that children can make throughout the grief process is unbelievable. I cannot express the good that this group does for the community - for families, schools, and for each person to learn how to heal...and that it's ok to lean on those sharing a similar experience.

My reason for this blog today? I received a link that Drew's Hope is looking to open "Drew's House" an opportunity to actually have a resource center for this organization as they are now using the elementary school on Shippensburg University's campus. This would be an amazing opportunity and would be such a fabulous resource for the center. If you take a minute to vote on the link below they could have this dream come true - this would mean SO much to me and many others that have been impacted positively by this organization.

Please vote: http://www.refresheverything.com/drewshouse

...and thanks to those who were in my class that still continue to be on my mind and that have served as a wonderful support system to me throughout this hard time...:).