Grief changes us, often without our permission. Where did my memory go? Why can’t I concentrate? Will I ever feel like myself again? Join Soaring Spirits International founder, Michele Neff Hernandez, to discuss the emotional, mental and physical changes that accompany widowhood and to find hope that you can miss the old you while learning to appreciate […]
Middle Widowed: Hope and Healing for those Widowed 3-5 years
Self-Care Through Trauma
Moderator: Susan Hannifin-MacNab
Susan will moderate a discussion exploring a variety of self-care modalities designed to specifically address grief related trauma. She will be joined by a panel of widowed people with personal and professional experience in healing through trauma. They will share self-care tips that they use and recommend.
Grief and Child Development
This workshop will provide an understanding of children and their development as it pertains to their concepts of death and grief reactions. Children’s grief can look very different than adults’ grief, they often grieve in spurts and re-grieve as the concept of death becomes more definitive and permanent to them. As such, it is important […]
Writing as Healing Art
Writing our way through grief into the “after” is just one of many creative ways widows heal. This workshop will offer simple prompts to write what needs to be written using the Amherst Writers & Artists method, an encouraging practice that does not allow criticism of first-draft work. Writers will have the opportunity to share […]
The Forgiveness Conundrum
If you find yourself living an unrecognizable existence since your loss, or you’re feeling somehow stuck between the trauma and the world where you now live, this workshop is meant for you. Come join in this exploration of the space between what happened and what’s next.
Navigating Our Finances
After what we’ve been through, we can ill afford to endanger our finances. Debra will identify & prioritize critical financial decisions to make, so that the Tool called Money can serve to help you (not set you back) in your grief recovery. She uses every day analogies to translate financeze into English. You’ll learn how […]