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Empathy and Support for Grieving Moms
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About A Mother Like Me
About Angie
- Angie has experienced the deaths of many people she loves beginning with her dad when she was 12 years old.
- Married to her "high school sweetheart," Bob Green, they began their life and family together after their first year of college.
- Happily welcoming and raising their three sons, Eric, David, and Kevin, Angie's heart was broken when her youngest son, Kevin, died of sudden cardiac death in January 2002 while he was surfing.
- After 4 years of grieving and moving from heartbreaking sorrow to healing peace, Angie co-founded "Mothers Like Me " Grief Care and Support Ministry with Cynthia Roth-Weightman who's son, Richie, committed suicide at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000.
- From 2006 to 2008, Angie and Cynthia facilitated grief support groups for grieving moms in Southern California. The ministry provided a welcoming, accepting and safe place for moms to express their grief while receiving comfort and encouragement with Jesus at the heart of their support.
- In 2008, Angie and Bob relocated to Colorado where she introduced Mothers Like Me to the community with a vision to "help more moms in more places,
- After a diagnosis, subsequent surgeries and treatments for breast cancer in 2009, Angie retired from full-time grief support leadership with a desire and commitment to continue to comfort, support and encourage grieving moms somehow.
- Writing for business, education and ministry for decades, Angie's book "A Mother Like Me - A Story of Faith, Hope, and Love in Loss" was published in 2023. (available on Amazon.com)
- With very favorable reviews, and encouragement from readers and others, Angie's next book "Mothers Like Me - Stories of Faith, Hope, and Love in Loss" featuring several mom's stories of loss, and how they grieved with hope will be published soon.
- Continuing to write and speak about the affects of grief with a focus on how healing peace comes by connecting our hurts to the Healer, Jesus, Angie is pleased to companion with grieving moms one-on-one, through writing and speaking with the hope that we will be "enlarged by distress." (adapated Psalm 34)
"Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted." (Beatitude)
A walk through the wilderness of grief can be where we meet god as we search for meaning and purpose.
"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted." (Psalm 34:18)
Resources
Grief Support Websites
The following are grief-related, and spiritual growth resources and services. I personally know most of the founding directors, and recommend them without hesitation.
Umbrella Ministries @ www.umbrellaministries.com
This National Christian faith-based grief support ministry founded by Daisy Catchings Shader and Donna Luke is far-reaching, and offers welcoming, accepting and loving grief support, conferences/retreats, special events and book recommendations/resources for hurting moms.
Hopelifters Unlimited @www.hopelifters.com
With an emphasis on "spreading hope when life hurts," the founder of this ministry, Kathe Wunnenberg, is a highly regarded author, speaker and Christian spiritual mentor.
Depth Ministries @www.depthministries.com
With a high-energy, vivacious founding director, author and speaker, Jodi Snowdon, this ministry encourages growing "from heartbreak to strength." She authored the book "Depth," and hosts regular podcasts.
The Center for Loss @www.centerforloss.com
Founding Director, Dr. Alan Wolfelt, is a renown author, speaker and bereavement professional. His Center for Loss offers a plethora of grief-related books and resources, as well as comprehensive bereavement workshops and training programs.