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Celebrating 41 Years of HOPE Our goal, in this 41st year, is to expand our support, services and outreach to the bereaved

with emphasis on helping grieving youth, and to financially solidify HOPE for decades to come.

HOPELine August 2020 Issue

A monthly newsletter of HOPE FOR BEREAVED,

a not-for-profit community organization providing

hope, support and services for the bereaved.

Please visit our website

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perienced the death of a loved one. Each month, we share

information and ideas from bereaved people and profession-

als to help you through your grief journey. Please know you

are not alone. HOPE is here to help you. To talk with a com-

passionate, caring professional, please call us today at 315-475

-HOPE (4673).

Our Feature Articles Page Reopening Plans 1 Processing Grief During a Pandemic ... 2-3 Vision For HOPE 4 Executive Director 5-6 Golf Tournament INSERT Love Mark 7-8 Understanding Grief During the Pandemic 9-10 HOPE Calendar 11

HOPE For Bereaved, Inc. Reopening Plans

MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED AT ALL TIMES AT HOPE.

In order to reopen some temporary adjustments have to be

made. We have done our best to lower risk and still try and

keep a safe atmosphere. We will be seeing one (1) client at a

time by appointment only and will implement a 15 minute

sanitation break between clients to wipe down the entire area. Counseling must

be held to 45 minute sessions to allow for this cleaning. If you can't make your

appointment please give a 24 hour notice. Appointments are limited as many

people are waiting be counseled. If you are not feeling well, please stay home.

All complementary services will be suspended for now (coffee, water & cook-

ies). Please come alone to your appointment. We will be operating on an ap-

pointment only policy, clients are to call upon their arrival (315)475-4673 and

wait in their car. Please arrive 5-10 minutes early to allow for the transition

process, we will text or call you when our area is completely sanitized and

ready for you to enter. Upon entering the building, we ask that you use hand

sanitizer. All staff and clients must wear face masks, please make sure to bring

your own. We will have masks available if needed. Also for counseling or sup-

port groups, we will have a quick questionnaire to go over and take forehead

temperatures. Support groups resumed in July. We will keep a log of every per-

son who enters the building/attends group or counseling for contact tracing

should it become necessary. With the new guidelines and restrictions, please be

patient a bit longer as we try to help everyone. If you have any questions or

concerns, please feel free to contact us. If you are not quite comfortable coming

yet, it’s okay, we will be here when you feel more at ease.

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From RollingStone.com by Elizabeth Yuko, published April 10, 2020.© Rolling Stone LLC. All rights reserved. Used under permission.

Processing Grief During a Pandemic, When Nothing Is Normal

For those who have experienced the death of a loved due to COVID-19 ~ and those who had friends and family members die in the months before the Pandemic ~

mourning has become a whole new kind of challenge.

BY ELIZABETH YUKO

It’s been seven months since I held my mother’s hand as she died in hospice from leukemia. For the first six of those months I traveled nonstop, working remotely and visiting friends and family, partly to catch up on what I had missed in the

year and a half that I was caring for my mother, but mostly to escape reality. The last place I wanted to be was in my studio apartment in Queens, New York - alone with my thoughts and forced to actually process my grief. Then, at the beginning of month seven, the coronavirus outbreak hit, leaving me in exactly the place I had been avoiding: home alone, with none of the distractions travel had provided. On top of that, living in the “epicenter of the epicenter” of the pandemic means hearing am-

bulance sirens around the clock, and seeing images of a nearby hospital full of people dying and refrigerated trucks serving as makeshift morgues - constant reminders of death.

As a culture, we’ve never been great at handling grief. Sad people make us uncomfortable. We want people to mourn for a short period of time and then return to their lives as if nothing happened. We have a set agenda for mourning: plan the service; hold the funeral, memorial, or Shiva; eat plenty of deli platters and casseroles; then get yourself back together and

press on. That’s difficult to do under the best of circumstances. And now that families no longer have the opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones, have to wait for hospitals to release the remains, and postpone any in-person gatherings for the foreseeable future, it has left many in a suspended state of grief.

There is never a convenient time to lose someone, but the current circumstances are making a difficult process even harder. Dr. Alan Wolfelt, the director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition, has been a grief counselor and educator for more than 40 years and says that this pandemic is unlike anything he has ever encountered. “Because we can’t travel and be by the sides of the dying and other loved ones right now, we

naturally feel helpless,” he tells Rolling Stone. “This is true of

families faced with non-COVID deaths and other tragedies right now as well.”

This feeling of helplessness has a ripple effect. The de-ceased’s immediate family may not be able to say goodbye in

person, leaving them without closure, and potentially feeling as though they weren’t able to do enough for their loved one. “Holding the hands of the dying and spending time with the

body afterward are ways that we as human beings acknowledge the reality of a death, and begin to embrace the pain of the loss,” Wolfelt says. “These are two essential mourning tasks that will

be naturally more difficult for people to meet in the weeks and months to come.” And without a funeral or memorial to plan, extended family members and friends may also feel as if there is

nothing they can do to assist those who are mourning.

According to Diane Snyder Cowan, the director of

Hospice of The Western Reserve Grief Services in Cleveland, that in itself is another form of grief: not being able to comfort loved ones who have just lost someone. “Funerals are essential because they help us begin to meet all of our mourning needs,” Wolfelt explains. “Funerals help us acknowledge and accept the reality of a death, share memories and convert our relation-

ship with the person who died from one of presence to one of memory, and help us start to think about how to live life for-ward with meaning and purpose.” Wolfelt recommends holding brief immediate virtual memorials including some type of ritual, like a candle-lighting service, followed by a larger in-person memorial when they’re once again possible. In fact, he says

that one of his greatest concerns right now is that too many families will forego funeral or memorial services altogether. “This is a huge mistake,” Wolfelt says. “Essentially, ceremony and ritual have the power to partially fill some of the holes created by the COVID-19 death circumstances. And it’s never too late to use them.”

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Processing Grief During a Pandemic… Continued from Page Three

It’s also important to remember to be kind to ourselves, and understand that things aren’t normal right now. Life as we know it has changed significantly, including how we grieve. “This is a time to recognize that we will do the best that we can, until we can do

better,” Dr. Melissa Flint, associate professor of clinical psychology at Midwestern University Glendale, tells Rolling Stone. Her re-search centers on thanatology — the study of death, dying, and bereavement — and she also has a private practice where she sees people grieving a traumatic loss. “We must mourn our lost loved ones in different ways than we may have traditionally done, and that can be a stepping stone to a time when we can gather and perform the needed ritual together.”

For many people who lost a loved one prior to the pandemic, being surrounded by constant reminders of death can be trigger-ing. Snyder Cowan says that the hospice has seen a significant increase in requests for bereavement counseling from people who started the grieving process before the coronavirus outbreak began. Similarly, Flint says that she has received 70 calls in the last week to her private practice, where she typically sees five patients a week. Almost half of those calls were from people who say that the pandemic has brought up old feelings of grief that they hadn’t fully dealt with yet. Snyder Cowan says that she has also heard from others who were grieving prior to the outbreak who say that they can’t handle dealing with their grief right now — it’s just too much on top of everything else.

We’re experiencing compound grief, Snyder Cowan explains. “I think what’s happening is everyone’s grieving so many things,”

she tells Rolling Stone. “At the same time, [people] don’t even know what they’re grieving. They’re not entirely sure if they’re grieving the death of a person, or if they’re grieving these profound changes that are happening in their life.” Along the same lines, Flint stresses that it’s normal to have difficulty continuing to process your grief during the pandemic. “This is not a function of you not coping well, or backsliding,” she says. “It is, rather, a realization that one of your only solid spaces — like your life, job, or routine - is now feeling shaky, on top of your heart already being broken.”

Everyone responds to grief in their own way, but lately for me, this has involved constantly reliving my mother’s final days and the sadness of her death, while simultaneously feeling guilty that I was able to spend time with her before she passed, and go through the traditional motions of mourning with a wake, funeral, and physical gatherings of family and friends. David Kessler — one of the world’s foremost experts in grief and loss — says that psychologically, we would rather feel guilty than helpless. “We are

uncomfortable in a world where we’re helpless,” he tells Rolling Stone. “We need to find control. So our [way of taking] control is ‘Well, I’m just going to be guilty about it — that’s what I’m doing.”

This sentiment is similar to the one Kessler described recently in the viral Harvard Business Review article, where he helped people put a name to what they’re feeling right now — even if they didn’t recently experience a death. “So many times, people think of grief as only death,” he explains. “But there are many, many different types of losses that give us grief, whether it’s the loss of a marriage, a job loss, [or] the loss of a home when it burns down. And I don’t think people thought about the loss of our normal world or normal life. I don’t think people have really used that terminology that ‘Oh, I can have grief if the world I knew suddenly disappeared.’”

In addition to looking at grief on a spectrum of macro and micro losses, Kessler also says that it’s not useful to compare your grief to someone else’s. “I’m a big believer that grief is a no judgment zone,” he explains. “And one of the questions I’ve been asked my whole career is ‘Which loss is the worst?’ And my response is always, ‘Your loss. Your loss is the worst.’”

Like COVID-19, there is no cure for grief, but there are ways to help us process it. For example, if you previously attended an in-person grief therapy group or wish you could start going to one now, Kessler says that there are several available online, including a free pop up grief therapy Facebook group where he hosts live sessions every day at 1 p.m. PST. Since creating this group at the start of the pandemic, it has grown to more than 5,300 members.

One of the primary tools used to help people process a loss is the Kübler-Ross model, better known as the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Kessler, who worked with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross prior to her death to update

the five stages of grief in their 2005 book On Grief and Grieving, stresses that these stages are not linear, and don’t have to be done in any particular order. “One of the things that’s happened over the years is that they’ve become ‘Five easy steps for grieving’ to sort of tidy up our grief, and I always remind people there’s nothing neat or tidy about grief. It’s a very organic process,” he says.

Along the same lines, Kessler says that Kübler-Ross never intended for “acceptance” to be the end of the process — something that could be achieved, signaling the end of grieving. Instead of thinking of acceptance as a singular moment, he says that there are “hundreds of little moments of acceptance.” After Kessler’s son died unexpectedly in 2016 at the age of 21, he realized that ac-

ceptance was not enough. This prompted his most recent book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, which he published in Novem-ber 2019, after getting the approval of the Kübler-Ross family to update her iconic stages of grief. “Meaning is so important because many of us, after every tragedy, deal with post-traumatic stress, and meaning is really the key to us having post-traumatic growth,” he explains.

And as we work towards finding meaning in the death during a pandemic, Snyder Cowan says that it’s perfectly normal — and healthy — to experience two seemingly opposing emotions simultaneously. “In all of this, there’s this ability in us as human beings to hold onto two things at the same time,” she explains. “So we can experience our feelings of sadness and grief and desperation, and at the same time we can experience love and joy and hope. And I think that’s what we want to try to strive for.”

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HOPE’s vision is to provide support and HOPE for the

bereaved. Now more than ever, we need your help to

provide our core services free for the bereaved, being

unable to hold or limit our major fundraisers. Your

donation to HOPE will help us continue supporting

hundreds of grieving children, adults and families now and

in the future.

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR

VISION BY DONATING $20 FOR 2020.

Donate online at: hopeforbereaved.com/support-hope/donate/

By sending a check to HOPE for Bereaved, Inc.

4500 Onondaga Blvd., Syracuse, NY 13219

OR call our office 315-475-HOPE (4673)

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From the Executive Director Therese S. Schoeneck

Entering our 41st Year! August 2020

Please keep Christy Dannible, Kathy Spencer, Walt Stein, Hank Balzer, Beth Putnam, John Kowalczyk, Christine Hart,

Dave Klem, Lanie Moses, Kevan, Ann & Dan Emond, all our first responders, medical staffs, essential workers and their families in

your prayers for good health in these very difficult days.

Dear Friends:

We are living in a very challenging time with so many changes. The isolation has been difficult for many. HOPE’s phone rings almost constantly. We were glad to open for counseling and support groups. Bereaved need the in person support that HOPE can now provide following CDC guidelines.

Some volunteers are worried about HOPE. Two sayings that help me are “life is all too short to spend any part of it in worry or anxiety.” The other is on a cross ~ “Good morning, this is God … I will be handling all your problems today. I will not need your help so have a blessed day.” We are working like supporting HOPE depends on us but giv-ing HOPE to God.

Because we don’t receive institutional funding from any source we must raise all the operating funds and fund-ing to provide our counseling, support groups and newsletter free of charge. It always has been a lot of work but now it is more difficult. We rely on our 4 major fundraisers that raise $130,000, 1/3 of HOPE’s annual budget. Dine for HOPE at Delmonico’s was cancelled; the Run/Walk and Celebration of HOPE will be held virtually which will raise limited funds. The Golf Tournament for HOPE will be held on August 3rd in accordance with CDC guidelines. We hope that golfers will join us ~ it will be held at Sunset Ridge in Marcellus (a new location for us).

We established a VISION for HOPE to raise $20,000 by donating $20 or more. This is an EXCITING PROJECT ESPECIALLY IF PEOPLE WILL POST IT ON THEIR VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA SITES - PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!

I’d like to draw your attention to the 2 articles on Processing & Understanding Grief During the Pandemic. This is an especially difficult time for those grieving a COVID or non-COVID death. Not being able to receive support from extended family, friends and coworkers may lead to suspended grief. Please remember to reach out to those in grief with a phone call, email, card, FaceTime or Zoom.

Best wishes and prayers for safety, good health and peace.

Love and Hugs! Therese

TWICE AS NICE! Support your favorite Restaurant and HOPE

Buy a gift certificate from your favorite restaurant and donate it to HOPE. It will be paired with a bottle of wine for the Celebration of HOPE’s virtual auction. This way our hard hit restaurants will receive some

income during this difficult time. Your donation may be given in memory of a loved one.

Thank you for your twice as nice donations.

Celebration of HOPE Committee

WISH LIST: DISINFECTING WIPES

Special Thanks to: Thank you to ‘Friends For Survival’ for

permission to reprint their article “Turtles” in our May 2020 newsletter.

The Peltier Family for designating HOPE to be the recipients of memorial donations for their dad, Owen. He was a long time volunteer along with his wife Carol, who was a dedi-cated staff member. They served on HOPE’s first Board. Owen obtained many of the flow-ers, shrubs and trees that were planted to establish the Butterfly Garden of HOPE in 1993.

Sollecito Landscaping Nursery for fertilizing, pruning and mulching the Butterfly Garden of HOPE.

Rita Dygert for donating the sale of her car valued at $2,500 to HOPE.

CNY Community Foundation for donating $500 to HOPE’s Future Fund.

Delores Davis who named HOPE as an agency in her will to receive an annual donation. This year the amount was $17,875.

Everyone who is responding to our ‘VISION for HOPE’ campaign.

Immaculate Conception Church of Fayetteville for their periodic tithing gift of $500.

Clients counseled by Kim Bermel. They showed their appreciation - one with a nice letter thanking Kim for “Saving Her Life” with an enclosed check; - another client requested a check to HOPE in response to what she wanted for her birthday.

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NAMING HOPE!

Designating HOPE to be recipient of memorial donations is a tremendous help to HOPE both in funds raised as well as awareness to the community about HOPE’s services. Please help spread the word to family, friends and co-workers to consider having donations made to HOPE when a loved one dies.

BUTTERFLY GARDEN OF HOPE NEWS

We are organizing our bench records. If you have a bench please let us

know how to contact you. If you decide to keep your bench beyond 7

years the fee for up keep will be $100 a year or $250 for 3 years.

SPONSORSHIP of the Garden is available for $5,000. It includes

major signage, recognition on social media and a 8 x 8 inscribed

brick in thanks. The sign is visible to nearly 32,000 cars every day.

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Understanding Grief During The Pandemic By: Therese Schoeneck, Founder and Executive Director, HOPE for Bereaved, Inc.

We are living in a challenging time, never having gone through a pandemic before. It can be scary, full of anxiety. The COVID-19 Coronavirus has led to many changes in our lives. Our daily normal has been replaced by a time of isolation. This leaves people to mourn alone without a hug or even the presence of their loved ones. This may lead to an additional level of stress and extended grieving.

Understanding Grief Grief is the natural response to the death of a loved one. Grief hurts! Usually people are not prepared for the emotional, physical, spiritual pain and intense feelings. Bereaved may experience shock, crying, anxiety, panic, depression, guilt, lowered self esteem and anger. Unresolved grief may lead to emotional and physical problems, drug abuse and may affect relationships within the family. Grief often takes much longer than the bereaved or people in their lives expect.

Avoiding grief only postpones recovery. Unfortunately when a loved one dies the reality of social distancing may lead to potential extended grief. Viewings, wakes, Shiva's and memorial gatherings may be cancelled or limit the attendees. This leaves the bereaved unable to receive the personal support from their extended families, friends and co-workers.

Helping Yourself Through Grief Realize that the death of a loved one during the pandemic will be different. Less support will be available for extended family, friends and co-workers. You need to look for ways to help yourself and to be helped. It is your choice and tribute to your loved one to survive and grow from your grief.

Take Steps to Help Yourself Call HOPE’s helpline 315-475-HOPE (4673) for a listener or to request the HOPEline, our free monthly newslet-ter. Attend one of HOPE’s support groups (in person when HOPE is open or by Zoom/Conference Call.)

Take time to grieve each day … to cry … to talk about how you feel

Be Patient With Yourself

Treat yourself as you would a grieving friend

Take one day, one hour, 15 minutes at a time

Ask for And Accept Help

Find someone with whom you may talk freely (an understanding friend, another bereaved person or call HOPE to make an appointment with a counselor (in person or by phone)

Pray to the person who died

Call your local 24 hour hotline

Accept Your Feelings Thinking that you are going crazy is a normal reaction. Usually you feel better after a “Good Cry.” The chemical makeup of tears of grief is different than other tears. Evidence shows crying is healthy for you physically and emotionally. Cry when you need to; laugh when you can; it’s okay to be angry. Don’t push it down. Let it out - beat rugs, exercise, hit a pillow. Be aware of depression - - don’t withdraw. If it becomes severe seek profession-al counseling.

Lean Into The Pain … you can’t go over, under or around it … you must go through it … Keep working on your grief … Be careful of alcohol or prescription drugs. Caution: Alcohol is a depressant; prescriptions often just mask the pain.

Be Good To Yourself Find a good listener(s) … Consider keeping a journal, write about your feelings … if possible postpone major de-cisions … Try to get adequate rest, eat well and exercise often … try to make your expectations of yourself and others realistic …Put balance in your life; pray, rest, work, read, exercise.

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Understanding Grief During the Pandemic … Continued from Page 9

Remember you are not alone. HOPE FOR BEREAVED is here for you. Others have felt devastated but with work, determination, faith and friends, they are now leading fulfilling lives. Hold onto HOPE. Your grief will soften and eventually you will make peace with your grief and enjoy life and the people in your life.

Be Grateful Find one new reason to be grateful for each day. Always be grateful for the dedication of front line medical personnel who risk their lives, firemen, security, police, store clerks, bus drivers, truckers, food banks and many others. Need to create and develop meaning in our lives, Remember Every Day is a Gift.

Helping Others with Grief Your help and understanding can make a significant difference for someone who is grieving especially during the pandemic. Funeral rituals are being delayed or replaced at a future date leaving the bereaved without much needed support from extended family, friends and co-workers. Helpful suggestions: LISTEN … LISTEN … LISTEN

One of the best ways you can help is to LISTEN. Realize the bereaved need to talk. Don’t force or change the conversation or give advice. They may repeat often but that is how they learn to believe the reality of the death. If they ask ‘why’ it is a cry of pain and doesn’t require an answer - just a listener. “If you feel like talking, I’d like to listen.” KEEP LISTENING.

Reach Out Regularly Even though you can’t help your grieving friend in person reach out by mail, text, phone, email or virtual visits through FaceTime, Skype or Zoom. Keep in touch frequently, send thinking of you cards; a package with self-care items, like a journal, adult coloring book, restaurant gift card (include delivery cost), HOPE’s book or brick in the Butterfly Garden of HOPE.

Validate Their Feelings Recognize that the bereaved know how they feel. Don’t try to talk them out of their feelings, distract them or fix their grief. Acknowledge whatever they are feeling is normal. Realize grief may take a longtime. Avoid clichés. They rarely console and may upset the bereaved.

Accept Them Do not be uncomfortable with their tears which are a good emotional release. Be available if the bereaved want to talk about their depression, anger, guilt and more. It is helpful for them. Be patient with things said or done by the bereaved. Anger, withdrawal and denial are normal aspects of grief. Be aware that the bereaved's self-esteem may be very low.

Practical Help Make your offer specific, e.g. running errands, picking up groceries, mowing their lawn, etc. These must be done within the CDC guidelines of wearing a mask and social distancing. It is not helpful to say “Call me if there is anything I can do.” The bereaved are often too immobilized to know what they need or to call for such help.

Be Thoughtful Give a plant … Remember special days ~ birthday, anniversary of death and holidays with a card and/or call. Order HOPE’s Book: HOPE for Bereaved: Understanding, Coping and Growing Through Grief to give to your grieving friend or read to understand what your friend is experiencing.

Your friendship and Support are Important. LISTEN, tell them that you care.

LISTEN … LISTEN … LISTEN.

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GOLF TOURNAMENT OF HOPE - MONDAY, AUGUST 3rd We are happy to hold our 28th annual golf tournament at a NEW LOCATION, Sunset Ridge Golf Club in Marcellus, NY. It is a fun filled event which will be

following the CDC Guidelines and raise much needed funds to help HOPE provide free services for grieving youth and adults.

This great day will be Captain & Crew and include 18 holes of golf, cart, bagged breakfast, lunch at the turn, beverages, contests and dinner to go.

Registration 10:00; Team Captain Meeting 10:30; Shotgun Start 11:00. To register use the golf insert, call HOPE 315-475-HOPE (4673) with payment information,

or visit our website: hopeforbereaved.com/golf-tournament-hope/

Virtual Remembrance 5K Run / 3K Walk For HOPE Sunday August 30, 2020 to Sunday September 13, 2020

Run/Walk at your favorite location. Submit photos of yourself or group running or walking. We ask that all participants please use so-

cial distancing and wear a mask. Print your loved one’s name in the memorial sec-tion of the shirt for $100.00. Memorial and sponsorship opportunities are available.

All participants registered by Friday, August 21st will receive a shirt. For details go to www.hopeforbereaved.com.

HOPE’s summer hours will be

Monday thru Thursday

from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

and Friday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.

SEE ENCLOSED INSERT WITH REGISTRATION FORMS FOR BOTH GOLF AND RUN/WALK