Grief Support - M3 Foundation

Dealing with the death of a child is a pain like no other, one that you can never be prepared for. While nothing can fully take away from the grief you’re feeling, we wanted to share a few resources to help those experiencing loss.

Grief
Support

As anyone who has experienced loss can tell you, there’s no easy way to move through grief. Losing a child is a loss like no other, so much so that there isn’t a word to describe it. Grief needs to be sat with and felt before you move through it. It’s a very personal journey that can take months—even years—to get there. There is no set timeline, there is no specific plan. Yet, for something so pervasive as grief, there are surprisingly few resources truly dedicated to helping bereaved parents and siblings work through the process. For our family, it took a year to find someone who understood what we were going through, and that was after the first counselor we had tried to pass us off as “done” only two months after Macy’s passing. While grief is nowhere near universally processed, M3 Foundation has made it one of their missions to educate the community regarding grief and to gather support for families walking a similar journey.

If you or someone you know has recently experienced the loss of a child aged 5-16, please contact us and we will be in touch soon. We will support you where you need it, and share Macy’s Hope, Love, and Joy when you need it most.

Do not judge the bereaved parent.
They come in many forms.
They are breathing, but they are dying.
They may look young, but inside they have become ancient.
They smile, but their hearts sob.
They walk, they talk, they cook, they clean, they work.
They ARE, but they ARE NOT, all at once.
They are here, but part of them is elsewhere for eternity.

-UNKNOWN

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The Macy Bear Project

Our family understands all too well the pain of having a child in the ICU. When Macy was in the hospital, her twin brother Mack was given a teddy bear to help comfort him, and that small act of kindness became a vital coping strategy for our surviving children.

M3 Foundation helps purchase and sponsor teddy bears for siblings of the families with children in the ICU. Our hope is that these bears provide that same comfort while going through such a difficult time.

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