The Compassionate Friends is a
nonprofit, self-help support organization for families who have experienced
the death of a child of any age from any cause. There is no religious affiliation.
Our web site provides suggested
reading , online
resources and online
newsletters to help you in your grieving process. We offer weekly
meetings where you can talk to other bereaved parents and siblings.
We offer an online newsletter
where you can receive messages, articles and poems. Families are
also able to share their feelings online. ...Remember You Need
Not Walk Alone.
Special Invitation to TCF Members
Rosemary Smith, author of Children of the Dome,
has invited bereaved parents/families in the Atlanta to attend a showing
of
her new documentary SPACE BETWEEN BREATHS.
Who are we? What really matters? Is
it possible to find true happiness after a great loss? The answers
to some of life's most important questions are explored in SPACE BETWEEN
BREATHS, a powerful, uplifting film, which looks at the potential in grief
and to the ways it can become a motivational, transformational force in
our lives. Featuring conversations with parents who have lost a child,
including those whose loved ones died at Columbine, on September 11th,
and a mother whose son was one of the first U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq,
SPACE BETWEEN BREATHS, offers an inspired and healing perspective on loss
which will transform the way you live and love.
SPACE BETWEEN BREATHS has been selected as one
of the eight documentaries featured at The Sweet Auburn International Film
Festival in Atlanta, GA during SpringFest. The screening will be
on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11th at 3:40pm at the Auburn Ave. Research
Library at 101 Auburn Ave in Atlanta. Admission is free.
Website
http://www.spacebetweenbreaths.com/
Sincerely,
Rosemary Smith
ChildrenofDome@cs.com
http://www.childrenofdome.com/index.shtml
In Memory of William D. "Bill"
Snapp
William D. Snapp, age 61, of Conyers, GA formerly
of Oak Park, IL passed away on Friday, April 25, 2008 following a long
illness. Funeral services will be held on Sunday at Horis A. Ward's Rockdale
Chapel at 2:00 PM. Interment will be held on Wednesday at Crown Hill Cemetery
in Ridgefarm, IL. He was born on April 17, 1947, in Danville, IL, to Eugene
and Lucille Moles Snapp. Bill grew up in Georgetown, IL. He graduated from
the University of Illinois in 1969, and taught History and Speech at Westville
Junior High School. He returned to the University of Illinois to graduate
from Law School in 1976. For nearly 20 years, he was with the law firm
of Jenner & Block in Chicago. In 1993, he moved to GA with his family,
to become the Regional Attorney and later the ADR Coordinator with the
EEOC. Bill married Teal Evans in Ridge Farm, IL in 1970. He is survived
by his wife, Teal E. Snapp of Conyers; brother, Eugene (Barbara) Snapp,
a niece, 2 nephews, and several cousins. He was preceded in death by his
parents, younger brother, Kerry, and his only child, Billy. Bill enjoyed
playing cards, board games, sports, movies and spending time with friends
and family. He was known as being kind and fair, always striving to "do
the right thing." The family will receive friends on Saturday, from 6-8
at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made
to organizations which help parents following the death of a child: www.alivealone.org,
www.bereavedparentsusa.org and the Tucker Chapter of the Compassionate
Friends, www.tcfatlanta.org. Horis A. Ward Funeral Home, Rockdale Chapel,
770-918-8851 is in charge of local arrangements and Sunset Funeral Home
in Georgetown, IL (217-662-6700) is handling services in IL.
Visit
Bill's Guest Book
Bill and Teal were members of the Tucker Chapter
of Compassionate Friends after the death of their only child Billy February
25, 1996.
They gave workshops on child loss at various conferences
throughout the years.
Bill Snapp speaking at the Worldwide Candlelighting Centennial Park
2000
| |
TCF Atlanta Chapters Quarterly Newsletters
Atlanta Chapter Newsletter
- Spring 2008
Atlanta Chapter Newsletter
- Winter 2008
Prior Newsletter Archives
for Atlanta Chapter
Gwinnett
Chapter - Summer 2007
Gwinnett
Chapter - Autumn 2007
Gwinnett
Chapter - Spring 2008
|
|
The Atlanta Chapter Walks
- 2008
In Memory of our Children and
Siblings
9th Annual Walk to Remember at the National Conference
in Nashville, TN
Sunday, July 20, 2008
At the Sheraton Music City Hotel,
777 McGavock Pike, Nashville, TN 27214
The Walk to Remember begins at 8:00 a.m. EST
Join TCF Members
As We Walk to Remember Our Children
To Include Your Child...please visit our website
http://www.tcfatlanta.org/AtlantaWalks2008.html
or download a form
Atlanta
Walks 2008 (word.doc file)
Atlanta
Walks 2008 (adobe .pdf file)
|
|
TCF National Conference for 2008 in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee, known as the home of country music,
will be the host city for the 31st national conference of The Compassionate
Friends July 18-20, 2008.
For more information, visit the National
TCF website
|
TCF
Atlanta Online Sharing Support Group
Wall
of Memory
Please Visit Our Wall of Memory
TCF
Atlanta Online Bookstore
TCF receives 5% of
ALL Amazon purchases
made from this link.
(TCF Atlanta is an affiliate of Amazon.com. If you shop Amazon.com
and you enter through our TCF Atlanta Web Site,
our local TCF Atlanta organization will receive 5% commission.
This money is used to fund our TCF Atlanta Web site
and other operating expenses. Thank you for supporting TCF Atlanta.)
Amazon.com—When making a purchase from Amazon.com, enter through the
following link
http://www.tcfatlanta.org/amazon.html
and a portion of the purchase price will be donated to further the mission
of TCF. This donation applies to all purchases,
not just books, made from the Amazon.com site.
Thank you to everyone who supports TCF Atlanta through Amazon
 |
Picture
Buttons and Key Chains
Online
|
|
Safe
Passage :
Words
to Help the Grieving Hold Fast and Let Go
by
Molly Fumia
Words of comfort for those who have suffered a loss move the reader
through the raw emotions of grief--denial, anger, confusion, guilt, and
loneliness--to
acceptance and transformation.
|
|
Book
Review
"Beyond
Tears - Living after Losing a Child"
Written by Carol Barkin, Audrey Cohen, Lorenza Colletti, Barbara Eisenberg,
Barbara J. Goldstein, Madelaine Perri Kasden, Phyllis Levine, Ariella Long
and Rita Volpe, in collaboration with Ellen Mitchell
|
 |
A
Matter of Life and Death
by Rosemary Altea
Spiritual medium and healer Rosemary Altea touched the lives of millions
with her New York Times bestseller The Eagle and the Rose. In this classic
work, Altea described how she discovered her gift, and recounted the miraculous
experiences she had in her early years of connecting the living with the
dead. In The Eagle and the Rose Take Flight, she shares inspiring new stories
of working with her spirit guide, Grey Eagle, to help sick and troubled
people heal, to help people recognize their true path in life, or to help
people find peace in reuniting with departed loved ones.
Born and raised in England, from the time she was a young girl Rosemary
Altea heard voices and had visions of people who had died. But feeling
threatened by her mother, the young Rosemary kept silent about the strange,
menacing faces she saw in the dark. In the 1970s, now in her midthirties
with a ten-year-old daughter of her own, Rosemary was abandoned by her
husband. Nearing rock bottom emotionally, she began to nurture her spiritual
gifts. She claims it was her spirit guide Grey Eagle who advised her to
publish her first book, The Eagle and the Rose. Even as the world has come
to accept-even revere-people who have the ability to communicate with the
dead, with various mediums gracing the bestseller list and with such television
shows as The Medium and Ghost Whisperer high in the ratings, in recent
years Rosemary Altea has had to struggle to realize the transformational
power of her work. From defending her integrity as a medium in a vicious
lawsuit to coping with the loss of a friend who was very close to her heart,
now Altea brings us The Eagle and the Rose Take Flight, detailing a new
chapter in her rich personal history as she recounts story after story
of remarkable encounters with the spirit world-encounters that will amaze
and inspire Altea's millions of fans. |
|
Healing
After Loss : Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha
Whitmore Hickman
For those recovering from the death of a loved one, here is a
collection of daily affirmations and meditations to ease the grieving process
and pave the way for healing to begin. |
|
My
Beautiful Broken Shell
by Carol Hamblet Adams
|
Book
Reviews by TCF Members
The Compassionate Friends of Atlanta web site
has provided online links from this page to amazon.com
to enable you to use their extensive search engine to locate books. If
you go to amazon.com
through any of our links or book recommendations, we will receive a small
commission from any purchase you make which will go to support our organization.
We are also developing "recommended
reading sections" which will feature books that others have found helpful.
Please visit these sections often to see our new recommendations and links.
Click on the book title or cover to link to additional information.
The
Story of How Compassionate Friends Began
List
of Recommended Grief Counselors
in
Atlanta Area
Our Credo...
We need not walk alone. We are The Compassionate Friends.
We reach out to each other with love, with understanding and with hope.
Our children have died at all ages and from many different causes,
but our love for our children unites us.
Your pain becomes my pain just as your hope becomes my hope.
We come together from all walks of life, from many different circumstances.
We are a unique family because we represent many races and creeds.
We are young, and we are old.
Some of us are far along in our grief, but others still feel a grief
so fresh
and so intensely painful that we feel helpless and see no hope.
Some of us have found our faith to be a source of strength;
some of us are struggling to find answers.
Some of us are angry, filled with guilt or in deep depression;
others radiate an inner peace.
But whatever pain we bring to this gathering of The Compassionate Friends,
it is pain we will share just as we share with each other our love
for our children.
We are all seeking and struggling to build a future for ourselves,
but we are committed to building that future together
as we reach out to each other in love and
share the pain as well as the joy, share the anger as well as the peace,
share the faith as well as the doubts and help each other to grieve
as well as to grow.
We need not walk alone. We Are The Compassionate Friends
For
Comments or Information, please email Web Master
