Hope & Light Cafe

A Café of Hope & Light: The Quiet Truths Series 

The Hope & Light Cafe is series of heartfelt, grace-filled gatherings centered around the hard conversations we often avoid, but desperately need. These include topics like suicide loss, anticipatory grief, abuse, estrangement, dementia, and more. So many of us carry these experiences silently, unsure where to speak them aloud. This series would offer patrons a safe space to reflect, share, and connect, without fear, judgment, or pressure.

Each gathering would gently explore one theme, such as:

• Grief Before Goodbye – Anticipatory grief, dementia, and slow losses
• The Things No One Talks About – Suicide, overdose, and complicated grief
• Estranged but Still Grieving – Family fractures and unspoken goodbyes
• When Memory Fades – The heartbreak of Alzheimer’s and fading identity
• Shadows of the Past – Abuse, trauma, and childhood sorrow carried into adulthood

There’s so much power in simply making room for these quiet truths, with the hope that each session becomes a doorway to connection, healing, and meaning.

Hosted by: 
Christine Barron
Grief & Grace Mentor
Balancing the Stones of Life
https://www.balancingthestonesoflife.com/