The Compassionate Friends/Kirkland WA

02/28/2026

Reminder: Our monthly TCF Coffee meeting is today, Saturday 28th of February at 10am in Starbucks, in QFC, at 11224 NE 124th St, Kirkland, WA 98034. Please come and join us.

“Around this time, my therapist Debra, gave me a quote that she thought applied to us: ’All that love could do was done.’”
- Ivan Maisel: I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir

02/26/2026

Reminder: Our monthly Bereaved Moms’ and Bereaved Dads’ in-person meetings, are tomorrow night, Thursday night, 26th February at 7pm. Please come and join us. We are meeting at Evergreen Hospice. The address is Evergreen Hospice, 12822 124th Ln NE, Kirkland, WA 98034

"A dear friend, who has now passed, told me that you are frozen for the first year after tragedy strikes. This first year is filled with anniversaries and other events that you look back on in disbelief at how life has changed. You go to bed on earth and wake up on Mars, a complete shift in your reality. The idea of being completely frozen is very real."
- Kris G. Munsch: Living on the Razor's Edge

02/12/2026

Reminder: Our monthly Chapter meeting is tomorrow night, Thursday 12th February, at 7pm at Evergreen Hospice, 12822 NE 124th Lane NE, Kirkland, WA 98034. This will be our popular "Meet my Child, Sibling or Grandchild" meeting. Please come along and join us in person.

“Whatever form it takes, telling the story of the loved one's life helps the mourners to accept the reality of death."
— David Kessler: Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief.

01/24/2026

Reminder: Our monthly TCF Coffee meeting is today, Saturday 24th of January at 10am in Starbucks, in QFC, at 11224 NE 124th St, Kirkland, WA 98034. Please come and join us.

"And there's all these phrases like, time heals all wounds. It doesn't. Don't look to be healed. You have a sacred wound, take care of it, don't let it get infected, but it's not necessarily going to heal, you just learn to live with it."
- Patti Smith: The 'Sacred Wounds' of Grief on All There Is with Anderson Cooper.

01/22/2026

Reminder: Our monthly Bereaved Moms’ and Bereaved Dads’ in-person meetings, are tomorrow night, Thursday night, 22nd January at 7pm. Please come and join us. We are meeting at Evergreen Hospice. The address is Evergreen Hospice, 12822 124th Ln NE, Kirkland, WA 98034

"And there's all these phrases like, time heals all wounds. It doesn't. Don't look to be healed. You have a sacred wound, take care of it, don't let it get infected, but it's not necessarily going to heal, you just learn to live with it."
- Patti Smith: The 'Sacred Wounds' of Grief on All There Is with Anderson Cooper

01/08/2026

Reminder: Our monthly Chapter meeting is tomorrow night, Thursday 8th January, at 7pm at Evergreen Hospice, 12822 NE 124th Lane NE, Kirkland, WA 98034. Please come along and join us in person.

“At times you may push away the reality of the death. This is normal. You will come to integrate the reality in doses as you are ready."
— Alan Wolfelt: Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas.

12/20/2025

Reminder: Our monthly TCF Coffee meeting is tomorrow, Saturday 20th of December at 10am in Starbucks, in QFC, at 11224 NE 124th St, Kirkland, WA 98034. Please come and join us.

"The first year, we mourned for Grace and the loss of her presence in our lives. The second year, we grieved for ourselves because we knew she would never come bounding down the stairs in her jammies to see what Santa had brought. By year three, we'd begun to move out of the fog, and glimmers of hope, like shoots of new grass, began to surface." Foreword by Ann Hood.
- Dr Gloria Horsley & Dr Heidi Horsley: Open To Hope: Handling the Holidays After Loss

12/18/2025

Reminder: Our monthly Bereaved Moms’ and Bereaved Dads’ in-person meetings, are tomorrow night, Thursday night, 18th December at 7pm. Please come and join us. We are meeting at Evergreen Hospice. The address is Evergreen Hospice, 12822 124th Ln NE, Kirkland, WA 98034

"The first year, we mourned for Grace and the loss of her presence in our lives. The second year, we grieved for ourselves because we knew she would never come bounding down the stairs in her jammies to see what Santa had brought. By year three, we'd begun to move out of the fog, and glimmers of hope, like shoots of new grass, began to surface." Foreword by Ann Hood.
- Dr Gloria Horsley & Dr Heidi Horsley: Open To Hope: Handling the Holidays After Loss

12/14/2025

Reminder: Please join us in lighting a candle today Sunday 14th December, at 7pm local time, for our children, siblings and grandchildren and all others who have died too soon. The annual Worldwide Candle Lighting, started in 1997 by The Compassionate Friends in the United States and now believed to be largest mass candle lighting in the world. A virtual 24-hour wave of light circles the globe as it moves from time zone to time zone. Our program is being held at Sunset Hills Memorial Park located at 1575 145th PL SE, Bellevue, WA 98007. Their new chapel is beautiful. Plan to arrive between 6:15pm and 6:45pm.

12/11/2025

Reminder: Our TCF Worldwide Candle lighting is this Sunday, 14th of December at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Bellevue. Please plan to arrive between 6:15pm and 6:45pm. Remembering the children who have gone too soon is a good way for many of us to help get through the holidays. The new Sunset Hills chapel is a beautiful setting for our WWCL.

12/11/2025

Reminder: Our monthly Chapter meeting is tonight, Thursday December 11th, at 7pm at Evergreen Hospice, 12822 NE 124th Lane NE, Kirkland, WA 98034. Please come along and join us in person.

“I often taught my clients: STUG-Subsequent Temporary Upsurge of Grief. Coined by the clinical psychologist and loss researcher Therese Rando, STUG is a grief term I've always liked that reminds us that grief comes out of nowhere, obliterates, then passes."
— Meghan Riordan Jarvis: End of the Hour:A Memoir.

11/22/2025