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. […]
Seasoned Widowed: Community Building for those Widowed 5 years and more
Making Sense of Finances: Now and for the Future
Making sense of finances after the loss of a spouse is a struggle for many. Whether trying to decide how to invest life insurance benefits to make them stretch or trying to survive when there is no death benefit or plan for future income replacement, Heather teaches you to understand how to do both and […]
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 […]
Navigating Grief, Sex, Dating & New Relationships: Your ‘Top Ten Tips’ Guide
Experience an honest, safe and sometimes humorous discussion as you learn the ‘Top 10 Tips for Navigating Sex, Dating and New Relationships Following the Death of Your Partner or Spouse’. You’ll discover why most normal dating ‘Top Tips’ aren’t applicable to you, why you most likely won’t follow them anyway and why that’s perfect! Join […]
Why What You Eat Matters in Grief
As a young widow, the kitchen was the place where I was best able to express my feelings. Cooking became my go-to coping tool. Recipe by recipe I made my way through the sudden death of my husband, and found both solace and inspiration along the way. Eventually my love for cooking led to a […]
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 […]