TESTIMONIALS
Natalie and Jillian are wonderful human beings. The fact that they do this for free is a godsend.
Hamed Ranjbar
I was so grateful to attend Natalie's online six week support group in the Spring after the loss of my father a few months prior. Natalie's accepting and open demeanor as well as the words she speaks have a way of honoring your own grief journey. While everyone in the group had a unique experience of their grief, the discussion and witnessing of these lived journeys provided a commonality that you know that you are not alone in the process. I wished a resource like Natalie had existed 30 years prior when my mother passed. How is it that we are still so challenged in our culture to have safe places to discuss our experiences of death with loved ones? Thank goodness for Natalie's ability to provide sheltering and a safe place to share. I would highly recommend this service to anyone I know going through a grief process.
Pauline Beharry
I was very grateful that I was able to connect with Natalie Segall, to be on Zoom, in her Grieving Support
Group, on the recent loss of my dear husband.
I want to acknowledge Natalie, with her advice and guidance, her sessions helped me cope with my loss.
Listening to Natalie's feedback with the other group members, was comforting.
Thanks Natalie, for your support
Bluma M.
I highly recommend Good Grief Central's six week support group facilitated by Natalie. It was incredibly validating to be in the company of others also experiencing profound loss. It reminded that what I am going through is neither outside the human condition nor wrong. Thanks to Natalie's wise counsel, skilful facilitation; her willingness to share from her own experiential encounters with loss, I felt so much less alone. The depth of her authenticity, integrity and genuine care for others is humbling to witness. I wish dearly loved ones didn't have to pass but if so--rather, and it is painful to write this--when so--what gifting to know that Good Grief Central and Natalie are there. Thank you Natalie and Good Grief Central for your generosity, kindness, professionalism and wise stewardship. I think of you as a safe harbour I can return to just by remembering what was shared in these past sessions. And, no longer shy to join another group session or ask for individualized help when the waters of grief become too much! I cannot express my gratitude enough. Thank you!
S.B.
After losing my beloved dog, sister and best friend last year, it was a huge help to meet with Natalie. From the very first moment I met her, she provided a non-judgemental and safe environment for me to express myself. It was like meeting up with an old friend who gets what you are saying No need to mask anything-the good, bad or the ugly.
Natalie helped me understand the very complicated circumstances of alcohol addiction/abuse and co-dependency. This enabled me to come to terms with the choices my sister made and her shocking, awful death.
Natalie also helped me understand the cancer journey my best friend undertook when many things did not make any sense to me.
I needed to understand "the whys" in both cases as well that the "should haves, could haves, and would haves" would not have changed anything.
After each meeting, I left feeling many pounds lighter as well as enlightened. A healthy healing was able to take hold and peace was slowly taking the place of sorrow, anger and resentment.
Natalie has my very sincere and deep gratitude.
P.L.
I am a volunteer with the Good Grief Workshops for Children and Adolescents which Natalie coordinates. At each Workshop, I experience the spirit of compassion and understanding that emanates from Natalie and her team. It is truly wonderful to witness the positive transformation – so evident in their faces and body language - that occurs amongst parents and their children over the course of the Workshop. I am proud to be involved, even in a very small way, with an endeavour that makes such a truly significant difference in the lives of those who have experienced loss.
J.K.
As a health care professional working in social services almost 20 years with Children, Adolescents and adults with disabilities I simply can't speak highly enough of what a valuable resource Natalie is to persons in need of grief support and counseling.
Daniel Haque
Having taken over when Dawn Cruchet (founder of the Good Grief Workshops) retired, Natalie has worked tirelessly to ‘take things to the next level.’ She has brought in many new volunteers, and the latest Workshop had the biggest enrolment ever! Natalie’s team spirit, professionalism, and compassion are greatly appreciated by all of us volunteers. Kudos, Natalie!
D.H.
As a long-time educator, I am very familiar with the wonderful work done by Natalie Segall and her dedicated volunteers at the Good Grief Workshops. I recently suggested to a grieving family that they attend a Good Grief Workshop. Afterwards, when I enquired how things had gone, the child and her parents couldn’t stop talking about what a positive experience it had been, and how much the Workshop had helped them!
S.P.
Natalie and Jillian are wonderful human beings. The fact that they do this for free is a godsend.
Hamed Ranjbar
I was so grateful to attend Natalie's online six week support group in the Spring after the loss of my father a few months prior. Natalie's accepting and open demeanor as well as the words she speaks have a way of honoring your own grief journey. While everyone in the group had a unique experience of their grief, the discussion and witnessing of these lived journeys provided a commonality that you know that you are not alone in the process. I wished a resource like Natalie had existed 30 years prior when my mother passed. How is it that we are still so challenged in our culture to have safe places to discuss our experiences of death with loved ones? Thank goodness for Natalie's ability to provide sheltering and a safe place to share. I would highly recommend this service to anyone I know going through a grief process.
Pauline Beharry
I was very grateful that I was able to connect with Natalie Segall, to be on Zoom, in her Grieving Support
Group, on the recent loss of my dear husband.
I want to acknowledge Natalie, with her advice and guidance, her sessions helped me cope with my loss.
Listening to Natalie's feedback with the other group members, was comforting.
Thanks Natalie, for your support
Bluma M.
I highly recommend Good Grief Central's six week support group facilitated by Natalie. It was incredibly validating to be in the company of others also experiencing profound loss. It reminded that what I am going through is neither outside the human condition nor wrong. Thanks to Natalie's wise counsel, skilful facilitation; her willingness to share from her own experiential encounters with loss, I felt so much less alone. The depth of her authenticity, integrity and genuine care for others is humbling to witness. I wish dearly loved ones didn't have to pass but if so--rather, and it is painful to write this--when so--what gifting to know that Good Grief Central and Natalie are there. Thank you Natalie and Good Grief Central for your generosity, kindness, professionalism and wise stewardship. I think of you as a safe harbour I can return to just by remembering what was shared in these past sessions. And, no longer shy to join another group session or ask for individualized help when the waters of grief become too much! I cannot express my gratitude enough. Thank you!
S.B.
After losing my beloved dog, sister and best friend last year, it was a huge help to meet with Natalie. From the very first moment I met her, she provided a non-judgemental and safe environment for me to express myself. It was like meeting up with an old friend who gets what you are saying No need to mask anything-the good, bad or the ugly.
Natalie helped me understand the very complicated circumstances of alcohol addiction/abuse and co-dependency. This enabled me to come to terms with the choices my sister made and her shocking, awful death.
Natalie also helped me understand the cancer journey my best friend undertook when many things did not make any sense to me.
I needed to understand "the whys" in both cases as well that the "should haves, could haves, and would haves" would not have changed anything.
After each meeting, I left feeling many pounds lighter as well as enlightened. A healthy healing was able to take hold and peace was slowly taking the place of sorrow, anger and resentment.
Natalie has my very sincere and deep gratitude.
P.L.
I am a volunteer with the Good Grief Workshops for Children and Adolescents which Natalie coordinates. At each Workshop, I experience the spirit of compassion and understanding that emanates from Natalie and her team. It is truly wonderful to witness the positive transformation – so evident in their faces and body language - that occurs amongst parents and their children over the course of the Workshop. I am proud to be involved, even in a very small way, with an endeavour that makes such a truly significant difference in the lives of those who have experienced loss.
J.K.
As a health care professional working in social services almost 20 years with Children, Adolescents and adults with disabilities I simply can't speak highly enough of what a valuable resource Natalie is to persons in need of grief support and counseling.
Daniel Haque
Having taken over when Dawn Cruchet (founder of the Good Grief Workshops) retired, Natalie has worked tirelessly to ‘take things to the next level.’ She has brought in many new volunteers, and the latest Workshop had the biggest enrolment ever! Natalie’s team spirit, professionalism, and compassion are greatly appreciated by all of us volunteers. Kudos, Natalie!
D.H.
As a long-time educator, I am very familiar with the wonderful work done by Natalie Segall and her dedicated volunteers at the Good Grief Workshops. I recently suggested to a grieving family that they attend a Good Grief Workshop. Afterwards, when I enquired how things had gone, the child and her parents couldn’t stop talking about what a positive experience it had been, and how much the Workshop had helped them!
S.P.