Richard Lambert Foundation

11/11/2025

🇺🇸 Honoring Our Veterans
Today, we pause to honor and thank all who have served and sacrificed for our freedom. Your courage, dedication, and selfless service inspire us to carry forward your spirit of resilience and honor. ❤️🤍💙

11/03/2025

We have open spots if you’d like to join us on tonight (11/3) 💚

Group Details:
🔹 For anyone grieving the death of a parent, grandparent, or another adult caregiver
🔹 Free of charge
🔹 Online registration required to join https://www.richardlambertfoundation.org/support-groups

Let’s navigate this journey together.

10/31/2025

Halloween can stir deep emotions when someone you love is missing. Maybe it’s your child who once dressed up in costume, your spouse who enjoyed handing out candy, or the parties you used to attend together.

It’s not just a simple holiday; it’s the start of a season filled with memories and traditions that can amplify the ache of absence.

If you’re feeling the weight of it, please know your feelings are valid.

We would love for you to share with us photos of your loved ones dressed up in costume 🎃💚

10/29/2025

❤️‍🩹

The hardest walk I’ve ever taken was the walk away from you.
I turned around for one more look, trying to take in every detail—your face, your hands, everything about you I never wanted to forget.
I knew you were gone, but I couldn’t make sense of leaving you there.

I wanted to stay and keep holding your hand.
To tell you I wasn’t ready.
To somehow stop what was already done.
It felt wrong to walk away while you stayed behind.
It felt cruel to leave when every part of me wanted to stay.

People don’t talk about that part—the moment you realize there’s nothing left to do but leave.
The way your legs move when you don’t want them to.
The silence in your head when it finally hits you that this is it.

That walk never leaves you.
It replays in flashes you can’t control.
The smell of the room.
The way the air felt.
The sound of your own footsteps, doing the one thing you swore you couldn’t do.

The day I had to walk away and leave you for the last time.
That’s the moment that lives in me forever.

10/29/2025

💬 Attention RLF Clients 💬

If you are a current client of the Richard Lambert Foundation and are losing your SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown, please reach out to us. 💚

We understand that grieving is already hard enough, and the added worry of how to feed your family can make an already overwhelming time even more difficult.

📞 Call 720.408.8417 or
💬 Message us here

10/28/2025

✨The Richard Lambert Foundation is seeking passionate community leaders to join our Board of Directors for 2026.

If you believe in accessible grief support, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and help shape the future of RLF.

Contact us to inquire and apply: https://bit.ly/2026BoardMember

⭐️ Applications due: November 14
⭐️ New board members announced: December 1

10/17/2025

This is so hard to comprehend but so true. When you feel like you’re gaining ground and learning how to function without your loved one, a wave of grief knocks you down. It can make you feel like all the work you’ve been doing hasn’t helped and you haven’t made any progress. It’s very scary, and can leave you feeling uncertain and hopeless. We don’t expect such a big setback. There will be more than two waves of grief and they will happen years later. All we can do is acknowledge it, feel it, sit with it, and if you need additional support don’t hesitate to reach out. What you are experiencing is “normal”. Nothing is wrong with you. ❤️‍🩹

The Second Wave

It’s the one you never see coming.
The one that shows up years later,
long after people stop checking in.

You think you’ve done the work.
You’ve cried, survived, rebuilt.
You’ve convinced yourself you’re finding your footing again.
Then one random day, grief kicks the door back open.

It hits like it did in the beginning—
sharp, cruel, and familiar.
You don’t ease into it. You drown in it.
That same ache in your chest, that same lump in your throat.
You remember the exact sound of that day,
the way the air felt when your world split.
It all floods back like no time has passed at all.

And the people around you—they don’t see it.
They think you’ve moved on.
They think time has done its job.
But time doesn’t heal this kind of wound.
It just teaches you how to look functional while you bleed.

The second wave makes you realize how deep it still runs.
How love this real doesn’t expire just because life keeps going.
It reminds you that no matter how strong you’ve been,
grief still knows your name.

And when it hits, all you can do is stop fighting it.
Let it come.
Let it wreck you for a while.
Because it’s proof they still exist somewhere inside you.

You’ll stand up again—
you always do—
but for a moment,
you’re back there.
And that’s what the second wave really is—
not starting over,
just remembering how much it still hurts to love someone who’s gone.

10/03/2025

Join us on October 6 💚

Group Details:
🔹 For anyone grieving the death of a parent, grandparent, or another adult caregiver
🔹 Free of charge
🔹 Online registration required to join https://www.richardlambertfoundation.org/support-groups

Let’s navigate this journey together.

Our monthly support groups, led by a qualified therapist or peer facilitator, offer a compassionate space for emotional support, guidance, and education.

09/23/2025

✨ Today, Richard Lambert would be celebrating his 40th birthday. ❤️‍🩹

In honor of Richard’s life and legacy, we invite you to consider making a $40 gift. Your generosity will go directly toward support services for families who are navigating the painful journey of grief.

Together, we can celebrate Richard’s life by lifting others in their time of need. 💚

09/19/2025

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: LANTERN FESTIVAL

We are looking for 4 amazing volunteers to help at our upcoming Lantern Festival.

✨ Volunteer Roles Needed:

🚗 4 Parking Attendants – Help welcome guests and guide them to parking.

If you are interested in volunteering, please reach out to us.