I will be providing basic moves and terminology while teaching several ultra beginner line dances. While we learn to dance we will also be learning the importance of self care and good ways of including movement into our daily lives.
Navigating Trauma in Widowhood
Put Your Own Mask on First: Parenting through Trauma
Our own grief and trauma are experienced in a variety of ways- emotionally, physically, behaviorally. Our minds and bodies can react with shock, rage, fatigue, appetite changes, sleep disturbances and loss of concentration.
Self-Care in the Early Days
How do you practice self-care when you don’t have the energy to shower? For many widowed people the early days after the death of their person are lived in a fog and self-care is not a concept to which any attention is paid.
Journaling Your Journey
Learn how writing about your journey through widowhood – whether in a diary, a prompted journal, poetry, letters or just any crude stick figures you can manage to create through your pain – can be cathartic…
Taming Anxiety
Grief and trauma can cause an enormously painful dividing line in our personal life story: there is the person we were before our loved one died and the person we are now becoming.
The Search for Calm/Sleep For the Busy and Exhausted Mind
Panic, anxiety, restlessness, exhaustion, racing thoughts, lack of focus, disconnect…grief can make it difficult to sleep, stay asleep or simply find a moment of calm.