FRIENDS WAY

05/22/2026

Its important for you to show extra care, and pass the sauce, to your friends who are grieving. Dropping off a meal is such a small way to show your support and love, and it can mean the world to a person in grief.

05/22/2026

Don't forget about our at Goddard Park on 6/7

05/21/2026

What's something therapeutic you can do today? Share with us!

05/20/2026

05/19/2026

Tuesday doesn’t usually get much attention.

It’s not the beginning of something new or the end of a long week. It’s often just a day in the middle — ordinary, expected, routine.

Grief can live in those middle spaces too.

Sometimes healing isn’t found in big breakthroughs or dramatic moments. Sometimes it looks like getting out of bed, answering one text, taking a shower, making dinner, or simply continuing forward when your heart feels tired.

Small steps still count.

If today feels heavy, give yourself credit for what you are carrying and for showing up in whatever way you can.

💙 Even ordinary Tuesdays can hold difficult feelings — and they can hold moments of care, comfort, and connection too.

05/18/2026

Some Mondays feel productive. Some feel hopeful. Some feel heavy for reasons you can't quite explain.

Grief doesn’t follow a schedule. It doesn’t wait for anniversaries, holidays, or expected hard days. Sometimes it arrives on an ordinary Monday morning while folding laundry, sitting in traffic, making coffee, or opening your inbox.

If today feels harder than you expected, that doesn’t mean you’re moving backward.

It might just mean someone you love mattered deeply.

Take care of yourself today in whatever way you need — a pause, a memory, a walk, a text, a favorite song, or simply making it through the day.

💙 There is room for grief, even on random Mondays.

05/17/2026

Happy Baking Friends!

05/12/2026

Sometimes we just need a gentle reminder that feelings take time. Breathe through them, be present with yourself, and let yourself take all the time you need.

05/11/2026

Happy Monday! What's motivating you this week?

My Monday Motivation is slowness, keeping my own pace, and taking things one day at a time.

05/10/2026

Happy *ish* Mother's Day! We are grateful for the mother's who are here, tending to the children to have experienced other losses in their life. We mourn the ones who are gone.

Let yourself feel however you need to feel today. If you are a Mother Mothering alone, we are thinking of you. If you have lost your mother, we are grieving with you. We encourage you to share stories about your Mothers today! What will you share?

05/07/2026

Sometimes our staff & volunteers are SO in sync that they show up in the same sweatshirt, unplanned!

FRIENDSWAY has 2 staff members, but our program nights are filled up with community volunteers and interns, we will be hosting another volunteer training in the fall (check back for those dates!) Community volunteering can be such a fundamental part of your life, giving back, we hear, tends to give us back so much more than we ever could bargain for!

We are SO grateful for our volunteers, AND interns turned volunteers!