Creating & Holding Space For Grief & Loss
Death is a natural part of the life cycle, but that never makes it an easy experience. In our loss, we also gain grief, something that doesn’t leave. Rather, it changes and evolves over the course of our life, always staying close. We can choose to ignore it and wait for life to begin again; or we can invite it in, learn from it, and use it as an opportunity to love deeper and live fuller.
This 10-day course will begin the journey of forging a new relationship with the concepts of grief and loss. This new relationship will give way to a new mindset, teaching you how to swim the waters of grief with more grace, surrender, and allowance.
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Exploring What Grief Is and Isn't
In Western culture, there is an unspoken, societal, and cultural approach to understanding and processing grief and loss. On Day 1, we are going to explore this approach and how it has often kept us from truly sitting with our emotionality.
In Western culture, there is an unspoken, societal, and cultural approach to understanding and processing grief and loss. On Day 1, we are going to explore this approach and how it has often kept us from truly sitting with our emotionality.
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Creating Your Own Definition of Grief
On Day 2, we’re going to use the creative power of word clouds and journaling to begin to extract mental and emotional vocabulary associated with the word Grief.
On Day 2, we’re going to use the creative power of word clouds and journaling to begin to extract mental and emotional vocabulary associated with the word Grief.
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The Importance of Making Space for Grief
The more we push grief away, the stronger we feel it. Grief comes with a host of emotions: sadness, anger, resentment, guilt, shame, fear. On Day 3, we will learn how to make space for our emotionality.
The more we push grief away, the stronger we feel it. Grief comes with a host of emotions: sadness, anger, resentment, guilt, shame, fear. On Day 3, we will learn how to make space for our emotionality.
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Honoring and Understanding Your Emotions
It is said that all emotions branch out from two main roots: love and fear. While love is the effortless, unconditional expression that brings us joy and peace, fear is simply the shadow side of this same coin. Therefore, on Day 4, we’re going to explore this concept of light and dark as it relates to love and fear.
It is said that all emotions branch out from two main roots: love and fear. While love is the effortless, unconditional expression that brings us joy and peace, fear is simply the shadow side of this same coin. Therefore, on Day 4, we’re going to explore this concept of light and dark as it relates to love and fear.
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Making Space for Grief: Somatic Movement
On Day 5, we’re going to explore how grief and the emotionality around it gets trapped and lodged as stagnant and dense energy in our physical body.
On Day 5, we’re going to explore how grief and the emotionality around it gets trapped and lodged as stagnant and dense energy in our physical body.
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Making Space for Grief: Expression Through Writing
Grief is love with nowhere to go. On Day 6, we’re going to channel all of the deep, raw love in our heart into a writing exercise.
Grief is love with nowhere to go. On Day 6, we’re going to channel all of the deep, raw love in our heart into a writing exercise.
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Making Space for Grief: Connecting with Your Loss
On Day 8, we begin to tenderly touch the vulnerability of our loss. Whether we have lost a person, a job, a pet, an opportunity, or even some part of ourselves; we will now begin to connect with our loss.
On Day 8, we begin to tenderly touch the vulnerability of our loss. Whether we have lost a person, a job, a pet, an opportunity, or even some part of ourselves; we will now begin to connect with our loss.
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Share Your Love
Now that we know what that love is, it’s time to share it. On Day 9, we’ll explore some unique, sweet, and heartfelt ways to share our love, even in grief.
Now that we know what that love is, it’s time to share it. On Day 9, we’ll explore some unique, sweet, and heartfelt ways to share our love, even in grief.
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How to Live Life after Loss
On this final day of our course, we’ll reflect on our journey; touch back on recognizing our grief and how making space for it has changed our mindset.
On this final day of our course, we’ll reflect on our journey; touch back on recognizing our grief and how making space for it has changed our mindset.
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FAQs
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Once you purchase the course, you will have lifetime access to the information in the course - including all Days’ content, as well as the audio recordings.
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You don’t need anything specific for this course. We will be working with journaling and mindfulness/somatic practices, so ensuring that you have a journal or something to track your thoughts and stories, as well as any household items to make your meditation practices comfortable (such as pillows, props, or blankets) will be helpful. Likewise, if it would also be resourceful for you, having a picture or memento of your loved one (if that is who you are grieving) may be helpful.
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This is absolutely fine. Grief shows up in many different ways - sometimes we grieve things, moments, lost opportunities, or even parts of ourself. Likewise, it is also common to grieve relationships with people who are still on the Earthly plane. This course can help with this, too.
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As this course will show, grief is a lifelong partner and practice. This course does not seek to eliminate grief. Rather, its intention is to make space for grief. And while results will vary and are personal and subjective to all, this course seeks to reconcile our relationship with how we understand loss. This is an opening of a door and the start of a deep journey - I hope the results serve you for years to come.
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Each Day works off of the previous, with each recording lasting anywhere from 10-15 minutes. You are welcome to take as much time between each Day as you need, in order to process and sit with the information and your reflection of it. Ultimately, it is best to mould this course to your current schedule, fitting it as organically and naturally to your life as you can - so that it can meet you where you are.