Shortly after her 4-year-old son died, Diane Wendt began Coffee and Comfort, an Orland Park support group for mothers who have experienced the death of a child.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Diane Wendt started Coffee and Comfort, a grief group for mothers, in 1980, a few years after her 4-year-old son Karl died.
Wendt listened to the women carefully, allowed them to express themselves and openly cry. Then, with a soft voice and at the right moment, Wendt offered comforting advice.“There’s nothing easy about the road of grief, but it does get better believe it or not,” Wendt told a mother who shared her daughter died recently, just a few months after her son-in-law died.
Diane Wendt provides books and resources to the women who attend Coffee and Comfort, a support group for grieving mothers. “I don’t know whoever is going to walk through my door. I honestly don’t. Sometimes I can have two. Sometimes I can have 18. I just never know,” Wendt said.Wendt eventually left her job as a nurse and became a grief counselor, ultimately having a private practice until she retired at age 75. Her focus has been to help the mothers realize it takes three to five years for the pain of losing someone to subside, and everyone grieves differently.
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