Emotional Support
Grief is the normal and natural emotional response to change or loss of any kind.
It doesn’t need to be fixed.
It does want to be witnessed.
Maggie’s experience of the Grief Recovery Method®
Chelse’s experience of the 12-Week Support Program
Robert’s experience of the Grief Recovery Method®
How do I know if I need support?
Do you feel overwhelmed, lost, or empty inside?
Do you feel tired and fatigued?
Do you feel heavy with unfinished or unexpressed emotional experiences?
Do you experience a roller coaster of emotions?
Would you like to bring joy and spontaneity back into your life?
Would you like to improve your relationships and invite love back into your life?
Would you like to live in, and be clear in your emotional body?
Would you like to learn about giving attention to your heart in each moment?
If so, our 7-week or 12-week 1-0n-1 emotional support programs can help!
General Emotional Support
DESCRIPTION
General Emotional Support sessions are intended to provide space for the identification and processing of personal, familial, or professional transitions or situations. Once the situation is presenced, it is the intention to discover new or different ways to be with or navigate what’s happening
WHAT TO EXPECT
Begin with 3-pack of 60-minute sessions to build foundational rapport and ground for short-term support. Additional sessions are available as needed and desired, and all sessions are held via Zoom (online).
While sessions are not technically therapy, they can feel therapeutic and can include talking and discussion as well as a combination of gentle inquiry and introspection/reflection and/or supportive suggestions.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Adults (18 and over) who:
have a desire to learn to be with or navigate personal, familial, or professional transitions or situations
feel like they aren’t thriving and would like support
want to be met exactly where they are with a situation
are interested in identifying and/or processing emotional situations
Grief Recovery Method®
DESCRIPTION
Other than death, there are more than 40 life events that can cause feelings of grief.
Some include: divorce, moving, miscarriage, retirement, pet loss, childhood trauma, and health challenges.
The Grief Recovery Method® is a 7-week, step-by-step action-oriented process that moves you beyond the pain and isolation of loss and teaches you tools that will allow you to reclaim your life.
The structure of the program provides guidance and allows for processing of all loss events.
While it's not therapy, the process tends to feel therapeutic.
It allows us to gain perspective around our experiences and recognize where grief lives in our lives.
It offers us the opportunity to identify the ways that we meet our grief and to recognize patterns and behaviors that have been present, sometimes for generations, and it allows us to be in choice about how we deal with our grief in the future.
The Grief Recovery Method® teaches us tools to navigate our grief, and help others with theirs, for the rest of our lives, and it is the only evidence based grief program in the world.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The Grief Recovery Method® is an educational and experiential program that is not therapy but tends to feel therapeutic.
The complete program is seven 90-minute one-on-one sessions via Zoom (online), weekly or bi-weekly.
Information from one session builds on the next.
Homeplay is provided before sessions 2 through 7 and involves reading and writing. The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses (Expanded Edition) is used as a guide to work through the program.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Adults (18 and over) who:
have experienced one of the more than 40 life events that can cause feelings of grief (list found here)
are interested in learning about how to be in relationship with grief and difficult emotions
feel overwhelmed, lost, or empty inside
feel heavy with unfinished or unexpressed emotional experiences
experience a roller coaster of emotions
would like to bring joy and spontaneity back into their life
would like to improve their relationships and invite love back into their life
would like to live in and be clear in their emotional body
would like to learn about giving attention to their heart in each moment
12-Week Support Program
DESCRIPTION
Other than death, there are more than 40 life events that can cause feelings of grief. Some include: divorce, moving, miscarriage, retirement, pet loss, childhood trauma, and health challenges.
The 12-Week-Support Program is comprised of the 7-week Grief Recovery Method®, a discrete program that is not augmented or modified through the addition of practices drawn from other disciplines, parallel five Supportive Integration sessions.
The Grief Recovery Method® is a 7-week, step-by-step action-oriented process that moves you beyond the pain and isolation of loss and teaches you tools that will allow you to reclaim your life.
The structure of the program provides guidance and allows for processing of all loss events.
While it's not therapy, the process tends to feel therapeutic.
It allows us to gain perspective around our experiences and recognize where grief lives in our lives.
It offers us the opportunity to identify the ways that we meet our grief and to recognize patterns and behaviors that have been present, sometimes for generations, and it allows us to be in choice about how we deal with our grief in the future.
The Grief Recovery Method® teaches us tools to navigate our grief, and help others with theirs, for the rest of our lives, and it is the only evidence based grief program in the world.
Supportive Integration is a personalized service that is useful and helpful for grief integration and/or normal spiritual, personal integration.
When one steps fully into their grief, there is the opportunity to gain new insights and wisdom about self, patterns and behaviors, ancestors, etc.
It is common to have questions about how to incorporate these new discoveries into life.
WHAT TO EXPECT
A 12-week deep dive into the heart; seven 90-minute one-on-one Grief Recovery Method® and five 60-minute Supportive Integration sessions via Zoom (online).
The cadence is two Grief Recovery Method® sessions, one Supportive Integration session, and then sessions alternate through the end of the program.
The Grief Recovery Method® is an educational and experiential program that is not therapy but tends to feel therapeutic.
Information from one session builds on the next. Homeplay is provided before sessions 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and involves reading and writing. The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses (Expanded Edition) is used as a guide to work through the program.
Supportive Integration is a personalized service that is useful and helpful for grief integration and/or normal spiritual, personal integration.
During sessions 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11, we co-create approaches to integrate discoveries from the Grief Recovery Method® in a way that feels good to you.
Sessions can include a combination of gentle inquiry and introspection/reflection, meditation, energy work, breathwork, and/or supportive suggestions.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Adults (18 and over) who:
have experienced one of the more than 40 life events that can cause feelings of grief (list found here)
would like support with integrating discoveries from the Grief Recovery Method®
are interested in learning about how to be in relationship with grief and difficult emotions
feel overwhelmed, lost, or empty inside
feel heavy with unfinished or unexpressed emotional experiences
experience a roller coaster of emotions
would like to bring joy and spontaneity back into their life
would like to improve their relationships and invite love back into their life
would like to live in and be clear in their emotional body
would like to learn about giving attention to their heart in each moment
“The Grief Recovery Method uses clear, easy-to-grasp language and concepts that have transformed my understanding of grief. My facilitator skillfully guided me through the process, offering support and a helping hand at exactly the right time(s). I now see the world and my interactions and relationships through an entirely different lens, with more clarity and compassion than before.”
- Participant in Colorado
The Grief Recovery Method® vs.
Traditional Therapy or Other Support Groups
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Led by therapist or licensed person who may not be trained in grief
Diagnostic process of talking, analyzing, discovering
Identifying and treating diagnoses
Multiple modalities
Designed to change troubling thoughts and behaviors
No end date – can go on for years
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Led by volunteers
Video based
Christian based - uses scriptures
Points to Christ as the ultimate source of healing
Specifically addresses grief due to death of a person and no other losses
Drop-in style
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Led by a lay person with common experience or licensed/professional person (doctor, nurse, therapist)
Often focused on “like” losses (disease/treatment process, or the death of child, parent, spouse, divorce, suicide, etc.)
Meant to help create a safe environment and community
Designed for sharing personal experience with a group
Not designed for recovery
Drop-in with no end date
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Grief specific program that is led by a grief trained individual
Educational and action-based program where people process their grief experience and learn life-long tools
Evidenced based program (only evidenced based grief program in the world)
Open to grief from all losses
Has a set beginning and end
Not therapy but typically feels therapeutic
It is our unexpressed sorrows, the congested stories of loss, that, when left unattended, block our access to the soul.”
– Frances Weller