Create Bad A** Boundaries! Become a Master Boundary Maker Unlock yourself from the confines of energy depleting conflict, guilt, and the ‘shoulds’ within your most challenging relationships! Create freedom, ease, personal space and deep self-care possibilities by becoming a master boundary maker inside your grieving and healing journey. In this workshop, Jim will use a […]
Recently Widowed: Tools and Tips for those Widowed 1-3 years
Using Written Word to Capture and Comprehend Your Personal Journey
Through the process of creating a Book Proposal for a Memoir using planning worksheets, attendees will learn how to construct their personal stories of widowhood and related life experiences in a clear and concise manner. We will start with the basics of organizing your unique thoughts and stories. Through writing, there can be healing.
Finding Light Beyond the Shadows
After a loss, the sense of not knowing which way to turn can make navigating the healing journey of transformation confusing and exhausting, often with feelings of despair, anger, fear, loneliness and disbelief.
Finding Calm in the Midst of Chaos
When we suffer the loss of a loved one, our lives are forever changed. Even as time passes, there will be those times when the grief can come roaring back out of nowhere. When things feel out of control, it can help to know there are ways we can learn to calm the chaos within […]
Understanding Your Grieving Brain and the Thoughts That Help or Hinder Healing
Human brains think about 60,000 thoughts per day. Some are true and useful, while others are nonsensical and cause extra, unnecessary suffering during a time that is already profoundly difficult. In life after loss, our thoughts can be overwhelmingly dark and hopeless. And in contrast, our thoughts that can light the path forward. In my […]
Communicating with Your Support System About Your Grief
Communicating Your Grief to Your Support System is an interactive presentation on navigating the communication barriers and breakthroughs with your support system. We will discuss the importance of identifying roles, managing healthy boundaries, and how to be assertive and directive with your requests for needs, accommodations, and space during your grieving period and beyond.