HeartBeat
HEALING THE HEART

HEARTBEAT is a support group for those who have lost loved ones through a suicide. Bob and Jan Burnside have facilitated a HEARTBEAT support group for over 20 years.

The objectives of HEARTBEAT are:

• To help survivors absorb the impact of a self-inflicted death
• To offer the comfort of understanding and acceptance
• To support each other toward healthy resolution of the grief

HEARTBEAT does not replace therapy. The healing achieved within the support group is the result of understanding, encouragement and caring among participants.

HEARTBEAT is not affiliated with any religious creed or denomination.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE
We understand the conflicts created for you by the cause of this death.

We acknowledge that normal grief reactions are intensified and complicated following suicide.

We relieve isolation by offering the empathy of other "nice people from good families" who have experienced the magnitude of this kind of loss.

We extend support toward resolving your feelings of responsibility, guilt, self doubt, failure, rejection, stigma, shame, anger, hostility, religious fears and your search for answers.

We recognize that great strength and healing are gained by using one's own painful growth in support of others.

It helps to talk. It helps to share.

We realize that we too have a choice - to grow better, or to grow bitter.