Please join Kelley Lynn, long-time Camp Widow presenter and author of My Husband is Not a Rainbow for our Keynote Address.
Navigating Trauma in Widowhood
Nurturing your Nervous System with Somatic exercise
“Nurturing Your Nervous System” offers a class delving into somatic techniques to shift the body from “fight or flight” to “rest and digest.” After trauma, the body releases adrenaline and cortisol, affecting heart rate, metabolism, and immune function. This stress response impacts the brain’s amygdala and hippocampus regions, influencing emotion and memory. Somatic exercises, emphasizing […]
Widowed with Children: A Panel Discussion
Moderator:Kim Murray
Kim will be moderating a discussion about the challenging (and sometimes heartwarming) experience of parenting grieving children. She will be joined by a diverse group of widowed panel members who will share their personal parenting experiences addressing a variety of topics and answer questions related to parenting after being widowed.
iRestore Active Recovery Class with Grief Yoga
The iRestore workout combines breath work to relax and lower stress in the body, self-massage (using a 36 in foam roller, 2 therapy balls in a bag, and a tiger tail stick) to help relieve muscle tightness, soreness, and inflammation, and stretching to help improve blood flow and lengthen of the muscles.
Befriending Your Emotions with Color Therapy
Death is a catalyst for feeling our most challenging emotions. Alongside grief lies anger, fear, panic, depression, overwhelm, and anxiety. Color Therapy provides the possibility of becoming friends with your emotions to soothe yourself into soft hearted feelings. In this session, Constance shares a compassionate practice to help you cope with strong emotions. You’ll learn […]
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 […]