The Good Grief Guide

Compiled by Sonya Claire Milam, MFT, Family Therapist • Certified Grief Coach • Widowed Mom • Author • Blogger • Ordained Baptist Deacon

Updated: July 5, 2025, to be updated monthly


FAITH-BASED GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS, GRIEFSHARE

  • Central Baptist Church1120 Lake Joy Road, Warner Robins, (478) 953-9319 
  • Southside Baptist Church1040 South Houston Lake Road, Warner Robins, (478) 953-9388 
  • Trinity United Methodist Church 129 South Houston Road, Warner Robins, (478) 923-3797 
  • First Presbyterian Church 682 Mulberry Street Macon, (478) 746-3223 
  • Forest Hills Church 1217 Forest Hill Road Macon, (478) 477-1161 
  • Ingleside Baptist Church 834 Wimbish Road Macon, (478) 477-7251 
  • Stone Edge Church 5659 Zebulon Road Macon, (478) 477-7251



SUPPORT AFTER THE DEATH OF A CHILD, THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS. MIDDLE GEORGIA CHAPTERS 

  • Chapter 1 (Byron) Byron Baptist Church100 W White Road, Byron GA 31008
  • Meeting Time: 4th Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM 


  • Chapter 2 Christ Chapel Macon, 170 Starcadia Drive, Macon, GA 31210 
  • Meeting Time: 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM (except November and December) 
  • Contact: Teresa at (478) 319-3526 or the chapter line at (478) 954-4592 

HOSPICE & BEREAVEMENT SERVICES

  • Georgia Hospice Care:
  • 645 Tallulah Trail, Suite 202, Warner Robins, GA 31088
  • (888) 428-7348
  • georgiahospicecare.com
  • Offers family support, and bereavement services. 
  • Gentiva Hospice:
  • 105 Jim Mason Court, Suite 100, Warner Robins, GA 31088
  • (478) 953-1016
  • GentivaHS.com
  • Provides hospice and family bereavement support. 
  • Heart of Georgia Hospice:
  • Warner Robins, GA
  • 478-953-5161
  • info@heartofgahospice.org
  • Individual bereavement counseling
  • Monthly community grief support groups partnering with McCullough Funeral Home. Educational resources. Community remembrance events. Annual Camp Wings for children. 
  • Hospice Care Options:
  • 486 New St. Macon, and 306 N. Davis Drive, Suite C, Warner Robins, GA 31093
  • (800) 563-8680
  • info@hcoga.com
  • Bereavement counseling. “The Mourning After” grief support groups. Children’s Camp Good Grief. Memorial services. Family grief education. 
  • Amedisys Hospice Care:
  • 3377 Northside Drive Macon
  • 478-745-0944
  • Bereavement counseling 
  • Atrium Health Navicent Hospice Pine Pointe:
  • 6261 Peake Road, Macon
  • (478) 633-6068
  • navicenthealth.org/service-center/pine-pointe-hospice-navicent-health 
  • Bereavement services for children, teens, and adults

 FUNERAL HOME & AFTERCARE SUPPORT

  • Burpee-Scott Memorial Chapel:
  • 2932 US Highway 41 North, Fort Valley, GA 31030
  • (478) 333-3006
  • burpeescottmemorialchapel.com
  • Provides 365 Days of Healing emails and online book, Verbal First Aid by Judith Acosta for ways to help kids experiencing a loved one’s death. 365 Days of Healing 
  • Heritage Funeral Home:
  • 701 Carl Vinson Parkway, Warner Robins, GA 31093
  • (478) 202-2722
  • altogetherfuneral.com.
  • Provides family support services.
  • McCullough Funeral Home:
  • 417 South Houston Lake Road, Warner Robins, GA
  • (478) 953-1478 
  • Offers grief support resources and year-long grief support email messages. Groups in parnership with Heart of Georgia Hospice. 
  • Richardson & Son Funeral Home:
  • 0405 S. Third Street, Warner Robins, GA 31088
  • (478) 929-1707
  • richardsonfuneralhomes.com
  • Provides online grief support and materials. 
  • FairHaven Funeral Home:
  • 4989 Mount Pleasant Church Road, Macon
  • (478)788-2929
  • Offers grief support resources and grief support group information. 
  • Hart’s Mortuary:
  • 765 Cherry Street, Macon
  • (478)746-432
  • hartsmort.com
  • Provides grief support resources, children’s grief materials, and bereavement education. 
  • Snows Memorial Chapel:
  • 1419 Bass Road, Macon, GA 31204
  • (478)841-9433
  • Snow's at Macon Memorial Park:
  • 3969 Mercer University Drive, Macon, GA
  • (478) 477-5737
  • Provides on line article for grievers and those supporting grievers. 

 FIND A GRIEF THERAPIST


WIDOW COACHING & GRIEF SUPPORT

For grief support, grief companion support, widow coaching, speaking engagements, and resources: outtanowherebook.com


BOOKS ABOUT GRIEF 

From the appendix of Outta Nowhere 

  • Carry On: Encouraging Words for Widows 
  • Hayball, A (2024). Carry On: Encouraging Words for Widows. Blue Hat Publishing 
  • Don’t Cry Past Tuesday: Hopeful Words for Difficult Days 
  • Poole, C. E., MDiv (2012). Smyth and Helwys Publishing 
  • Your Loss Matters: Real Talk About Grief in a World that Doesn’t Get It 
  • Devile, M (2023) Wise Ink Publishers 
  • The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss. 
  • O'Connor, M. F., (2022) Harper One 
  • It’s OK If You’re Not OK 
  • Devine, M. (2023). Sounds True Inc 
  • Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved 
  • Bowler, K. (2018). Random House

PODCASTS

  • The Widowed Mom Podcast with Krista St Germain 
  • Everything Happens with Kate Bowler 

FACEBOOK GROUPS

Be careful friends on here! There are so many opportunities for fraudulent activities here. These are the few I have concluded have the most safety features and that have brought me positive encounters with each of these grief experts and now friends: 

  • The Widowed Mom Podcast Community by Krista St Germain 
  • Michele DeVille- Dare to Grieve 
  • David Kessler 
  • Ashley Hayball Heald (Sonya’s personal grief coach) 
  • Terri Lynn Chaplin (Sonya’s Grief Coach Certification Instructor)