When our world is turned upside down by death, grievers are frequently encouraged to “get back to normal.” But how? There is nothing “normal” about the person we love being physically missing from our lives. What if instead of trying to recreate the past or even accept a new normal, we allow ourselves to be […]
Navigating Trauma in Widowhood
Evolving With Your Emotions: Color Therapy Tools for Becoming Friends With Your Feelings
This workshop helps you discover the power of color energies as emotional allies, and how color can guide and support your feelings. Colors are like emotions; each one is a gift that leads you into deeper aspects of your whole and well self. When you gently allow your feelings, you can gain true emotional resilience. […]
Dealing with Anger
Anger is an emotion that often comes with grief. It is identified as one of the five stages of grief by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Many mistakenly feel badly about feeling angry, not knowing that it is a necessary path along the grief journey towards healing. Some people do not realize that they are angry or even […]
Guided Writing For Healing and Connection
Author, writer, and widow Melissa Gould will guide participants in a healing writing workshop that explores the unexpected realities of widowhood. Designed to enhance acceptance and exploration of what it means to be widowed, this workshop considers that we are not living the life we were expecting due to the loss of our person. Through […]
Finding Your Footing
“How do I find my footing?” As widowed people, no matter the time after the loss of our partner, we find ourselves faced with what, where, when, why, and how to navigate many aspects of our lives. Join Mel and Anita in this interactive, fun, actionable, and informative session specifically for finding a confident and […]
Retrain Your Brain: Adapting Your Inner Voice for Healing
After the unthinkable happens, our normal human brains operate as if in a danger zone, offering us a constant barrage of thoughts. We revisit the events surrounding the loss and analyze it from every angle. We consider how our own actions might have changed the outcome. It’s easy to dwell on how we could have […]