Death, loss, and grief happen to each of us throughout our lifetime.

There’s no way to escape them. They CHANGE us and our lives without any notice. They are filled with MESSY, and HARD moments that leave us feeling overwhelmed, sad, afraid, angry, depressed, out of control, and so much more.

In the past 59 years of living on Mother Earth, I have learned that death, loss, and grief are a master class in SURRENDER.

They humble and teach us that we do not have any control over when they show up and show out in our lives. If we resist them, we create more suffering and struggles. If we surrender to them, we open ourselves up to receive their sacred medicine of healing, growth, and transformation.

Surrendering to death, loss, and grief begins when we choose to befriend ourselves.

Befriending ourselves starts with being S.O.F.T.

That means we SLOW down and OFFER ourselves FREEDOM TODAY.

The FREEDOM is grace, space, and time to get grounded, feel our emotions, practice self-care, and seek safe and trusted support.

The TODAY is the present moment — giving ourselves what we need to care for ourselves right where we are and with what we have.

Thriving Mindfully with death, loss, and grief is a heart-centered journey we choose to take when we are willing to be vulnerable with ourselves.

The Thriving Mindfully journey invites us to:

-Become aware of and define what death, loss, and grief currently mean to us,

-Explore our beliefs and previous experiences with death, loss, and grief,

-Set intentions on how we want to relate to them, and

–Create and use a self-nurturing toolkit that honors our unique needs.

This year, I am sharing the lessons I have learned while navigating my mom Theresa’s transition in the monthly Grief + You Retreat.

The Grief + You Retreat is designed to encourage and support you in learning how to embrace Thriving Mindfully with death + loss + grief.

The Grief + You Retreat is a two-day nurturing experience (90 minutes for the first day and two hours for the second day) that will be held on September 28-29, October 26-27, November 16-17, and December 7-8 at 2-3:30 PM ET (second day is 2-4 PM ET) via Zoom.

Participating in a retreat is a great way to make yourself a priority. A retreat helps you carve out time and space and take responsibility for yourself. When you take responsibility for yourself, you begin to see your full self. A retreat gives you an opportunity to take responsibility for identifying your vulnerabilities, challenges, wins, and losses. A retreat can also help you set intentions and create shifts in how you choose to show up in your life, relationships, career, and business.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE RETREAT

“The Retreat provided a safe container to be in community with others around my grief story, our grieving process. It allowed me to be vulnerable with myself and others. It reminded me of how to show up for myself and be in close company with my process all at the same time. I’ve been keeping grief at arms distance since November, and I signed up knowing that you would be a trusted guide. I really appreciated the inquiry-based approach to understanding my relationship with grief. I’ve been working my way through the answers over the past week. Some are easier than others to respond but the heightened awareness has been helpful. The gentle yoga and movement breaks, reminders to breathe, were very helpful during the retreat. Thank you for making space to allow so many emotions and feelings and experiences to show up, be witnessed without judgement. I really appreciated all the safeguards you implemented for personal choice to engage in the retreat space in a way that brought the most comfort and sense of security.” Karla T., a television professional

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS AT THE RETREAT

During the Grief + You Retreat, I will hold space for you to:

-Be present, vulnerable, and share in a sacred and safe community

-Participate in a mindful moment and meditation that will help you get grounded in your body and breath and teach you how to nurture yourself when you experience emotions caused by death, loss, and grief

-Define what death, loss, and/or grief mean to you.

-Reflect on and journal about the emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and experiences you’ve had about death, loss, and/or grief, especially during the pandemic years

-Identify how you have or have NOT taken care of yourself when you experience death, loss, and/or grief

-Learn about the seven stages of grief and how you they may be showing up in your life

-Reflect on and set an intention about normalizing your conversations about death, grief, and loss and the type of relationship you would like to have with them

-Use your reflections and journaling to begin writing a love letter to yourself and your story (stories) about death, loss, and grief

-Learn self-nurturing practices and tap into ancestral medicine you can use to support yourself when you experience death, loss, and/or grief

-Learn how to use the Thriving Mindfully framework to create a self-nurturing toolkit you can use when you experience death, loss, and/or grief

YOUR INVESTMENT – $125

Click the button below to register for the retreat that works best for you. Tell your family and friends to join you.

Change happens each day.

Change shows up in our spirit, heart (emotions), mind, body, relationships, career, and community.

Many of us resist change because we are afraid of it and/or want to control what’s happening.

When we resist it, change often becomes more messy, overwhelming, chaotic, and/or stressful.

What would happen if you learned to befriend yourself and change when it shows up?

If you’re interested in gaining tips on how to navigate change, join me for the Thriving Mindfully Circle, a monthly 30-minute session, that will introduce you to the Thriving Mindfully approach, a heart-centered awareness and approach to being present, well, and the REAL YOU no matter what’s happening.

Click the button below to register for the dates that work best for you. Once you register, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom.

Each Thriving Mindfully Circle offers you a pay what you can option. All you gotta do is click the pay what you can button and select your own fee. No one will be turned away!