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.
Workshops
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.
Seeking Purpose Post-Loss? Fuel Your Transformative Passion
Join NAACP award-winning Global Nonprofit Founding Director, Certified Grief Coach, Author and Speaker of Young, Black & Widowed for an uplifting interactive workshop to help you find and fuel your transformative passions post-loss! Azurae was widowed by lung cancer at age 27 in 2017 while 5 months pregnant and with their 10-month-old on her hip. […]
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.