The Coping Centre
1740 Blair Rd N3H 4R8 Cambridge, ON, Canada

If you celebrate them in your family, the holidays can be one of the hardest times of the year after a loss. Not everyone can celebrate as they used to and that is very much alright. Changing traditions to suit your new reality whether temporarily or forever is a completely acceptable way to cope with the loss of a loved one. Altering old ways or adding new traditions to include and remember the ones you love is an important step to your grief journey. Many of you visit ...the Coping Centre to remember your loved ones with us by hanging an ornament in their name on our trees. My family has evolved this tradition in our own homes by filling our tree with the names of all those we love and those we have lost. Each year we pull out the ornaments with the names of our friends, family, co-workers and all those who we love who are still here with us. We add ornaments with the names of our Grandparents, our friends and relatives who are no longer with us but who we love just as much and hang those amongst the rest. It is the one time of the year when everyone we love can be together. We honor and think of them and get to spend the holidays with everyone who matters most to us. This tradition works for us. Find your own ways to include your loved ones in your holiday in the way that feels right to you and your family. See more

Thank you Ivana for sharing your story and for working so hard on The Big Give Auction with Rotary Club of Cambridge (Preston & Hespeler) helping to ensure Coping can keep on providing the support you are so passionate about. <3 www.biggiveauction.ca

Thank you so much to the wonderful staff at Your Neighbourhood Credit Union for choosing The Coping Centre as your Charity to donate your dress down day donations to! What a wonderful gesture to the community! We are so honored you thought of us.

This is it! Today is the last day to get your tickets to win our 2020 Mid-Engine Corvette! We will draw our winner LIVE RIGHT HERE tomorrow November 14th at 9:30pm! Don't miss it! It might be YOU! Thank you for all your amazing support this year providing these services free of charge to grieving families in our communities! Set your reminder now and don't miss it! https://www.facebook.com/theCopingCentre/live_videos/

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What are you bidding on? That timeshare anywhere in the world?.. The Helicopter tour of Niagara? The Elora Mill Elite Spa and Feast experience?? The BBQ bash with all those steaks?! This is it! The last chance to make sure you get exactly what you want for Christmas! The Rotary Big Give Auction ends tomorrow! Check out all the amazing items and get your bids in now for your chance to win and support Rotary Cambridge P-H and The Coping Centre! Thank you to everyone for all of your support for these great causes! www.biggiveauction.ca

Today is the day! The Rotary Big Give Auction is live for Bidding!! Proceeds go to the Coping Centre and Cambridge Rotary P-H! Check out the Catalog of items to bid on including everything from Oakley's to BBQs, Clothing, Gift Cards, Restaurants, Experiences, Household goods and so much more! Get your Christmas Shopping done early and support your local community! Share the word and go to www.BigGiveAuction.ca now!!!!

We all know that this holiday season will be different. At Coping, we are so very sad that we cannot come together as we usually do to remember our loved ones together with you. Ros and Glenn wanted to make sure they were still able to send you some words of hope over this holiday season. Please share these words with whomever needs to hear them and reach out to us at 519-650-0852 if you are struggling with the added stresses this year brings to those who are already grieving a loss. These are also posted on our website along with other resources to help navigate this year. Keeping you and your families in our thoughts always, and especially through this very different holiday season <3 https://822c6528-19df-40d1-8345-6b1d8e8b41de.filesusr.com/

When someone we love is hurting because of the loss of a loved one, it is our instinct to fix what we see as broken. But those who are grieving are not broken. They have been handed an immense weight to carry whose bulk cannot be shared. This weight is theirs alone to bear. The best we can do is to support them in their journey to build their strength to do it. Just like an athlete training for a marathon, the process can be a slow one. As supporters of those who are gr...ieving, we can help them through the process by being the listening support system for those we love. We cannot tell them it won't hurt because it will. We cannot tell them it's not hard because it is. What we can do is to tell them that we are here for them for the times they need us. To let them cry, be angry, enjoy the good times. We can be their support and we will be with them all the way. This article touches on some wonderful ways we can be the listeners and support those who have lost loved ones in our lives. https://www.psychologytoday.com//how-listen-those-in-mourn See more

This is why it is so important to find the right person to talk to. Coping is happy to connect you with the right trained professional who has experience with working through all of the feelings related to grief and loss. WHO you talk to matters.

The Coping Centre is honored to be awarded Platinum as Best Bereavement Counselling in our community in this year's Reader's Choice Awards. Thank you for all of your support!

Thank you to all those who served, continue to serve and to all those we lost. We are so grateful for everything you have done and continue to do for us to keep us safe and make Canada such a wonderful place to live. Our hearts are with you all.

Congratulations to our 2020 Corvette winner David Bowmaster from Mississauga with ticket number 4368!