If you’re here, I want you to know that if you’ve been carrying something heavy, there is hope and a way through. You may have unspoken emotions, feel the weight of life not turning out the way you hoped, or be navigating a loss or transition, wishing things had been different, better, or more. While much of what we were taught doesn’t truly heal our hearts, The Grief Recovery Method offers an action-based path to gently release the pain you’ve been carrying. My hope for you is to find peace and to honor your experience—you don’t have to walk this journey alone.
Did a death, divorce, or the end of a romantic relationship cause it? Or was it caused by any of the forty other losses that you might experience such as moving, pet loss, or a change in finances?
I’m not going to tell you, “I know how you feel,” because I don’t. Neither does anyone else. What I will do is provide a safe environment where you will be given specific tools to help you recover from loss and ultimately lead a happier life.
The Grief Recovery Method® is a once-a-week in person meeting or zoom meeting that gives you the tools, space, and support to work through and release the pain of a major life loss. The program lasts seven weeks.
I am so excited to be able to help you overcome the grief obstacles that you are facing in life. I’ll be hosting a grief recovery webinar where I’ll go in depth about tools you can use to acknowledge your loss and accompanying grief, and move forward in life. I want you to enjoy life again, smile and laugh. Let’s take this journey together, and find your way to the light at the end of the tunnel.
While waiting for the webinar, I encourage you to learn more about grief and loss and explore what grief means to you. You can also book a one-on-one meeting with me and read through some resources.
Loss is an emotion that we will all go through multiple times in life. Loss is the process of losing something or someone. An extremely useful metaphor that I like to use is to imagine reaching out for someone. Imagine being in need and continually calling out their name and stretching out your hands as far as they could go. Even though you’re putting in so much effort to reach that other person, because you desperately need them, they’re not there. That feeling of disappointment and confusion is exactly what someone experiencing a loss can feel.
Children will go through loss like adults do, but their experience differs from that of adults. It’s very common for children to express loss emotionally. Going through monumental experiences can often feel overwhelming for a child, and sometimes they don’t know how to react. Losses can be social, environmental, economic and physical. Some common losses that children go through include:
Divorce
Moving
Changes In Friendships
Birth Of A Sibling
School Transitions
Natural Disasters
Death Of A Family Member
Parental Job Loss
Parental Military Deployment
Death of a Pet
Loss Of Safety/Security
Children of different ages will have different experiences with loss, and it can be helpful to know how to guide the conversation depending on the age of your child. Based on your child’s age, you can see reactions to losses in the form of outbursts, anger, lack of motivation, embarrassment and severe anxiety. If your child doesn’t learn a healthy way to deal with loss, then these emotional reactions will carry on into adulthood and can lead to mental health issues and unresolved trauma.
I believe that one of my purposes in life is to help people deal with grief and loss in a healthy way. I know from experience that even though difficult times may seem never-ending, there is a brighter future ahead. Taking all the tools that I teach you and passing them on to your children will be extremely beneficial throughout their lives.
They will be able to identify loss, experience the loss and move past the situation in order to enjoy life again. If you would like to find out more ways to talk to your child about loss, have questions about the Grief Recovery Method or have anything else on your mind, please reach out to me. I look forward to helping you and your family!