Healing Through Grief: A Guided Journey
In this mini-course, you’ll explore practical tools and spiritual insights to help you navigate grief. Using techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), you’ll learn to manage emotions and reframe negative thoughts. You’ll also explore rituals, signs, and symbols to stay connected with loved ones, and dive into spiritual concepts like mediumship and past lives. By the end, you’ll have strategies to process grief, find peace, and continue your healing journey.
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Chapter 1
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Day 1: Understanding Grief and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
On Day 1, we explore Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and how it helps manage the negative thought patterns that often accompany grief. You’ll learn how to identify and reframe cognitive distortions like catastrophizing and personalization, as well as how to engage in small activities through behavioral activation. By the end of this session, you’ll have practical tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and manage your emotions during grief.
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Day 2: Managing Emotional Pain with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Day 2 introduces Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques, which focus on tolerating distress, regulating emotions, and practicing acceptance during grief. You’ll learn skills like distress tolerance using the TIPP method, radical acceptance of your loss, and effective emotion regulation. These tools will help you manage intense grief-related emotions and navigate challenging emotional moments.
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Day 3: Acute Grief Management: Navigating Intense Moments of Grief
On Day 3, we tackle acute grief—those overwhelming waves of emotion that can strike suddenly. You’ll learn grounding techniques like the 5-4-3-2-1 method, progressive muscle relaxation, and breathing exercises to manage emotional and physical reactions to grief. By the end of the session, you’ll have tools to help you ride the waves of intense grief and regain emotional balance.
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Chapter 2
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Day 4: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) – Tapping for Grief
On Day 4, we’ll focus on Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), a practical tool for managing grief by combining gentle tapping on acupressure points with verbal acknowledgment of emotions. EFT helps release emotional blockages and reduce the intensity of feelings like sadness, anger, and guilt. You’ll learn the basic tapping sequence, how to create setup phrases, and practice using EFT to bring relief to overwhelming emotions.
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Day 5: Understanding Different Types of Grief
Day 5 covers the different types of grief beyond death, such as anticipatory grief, complicated grief, disenfranchised grief, and ambiguous loss. You’ll explore how each type of grief brings unique challenges and how to validate your own grieving process. We’ll also discuss secondary losses, which occur alongside the primary loss, and how they impact your healing journey.
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Day 6: Funerals, Wills, and Final Wishes
On Day 6, we explore the practical aspects of grief—funerals, wills, and honoring final wishes. You’ll learn about different types of funeral services and how they provide closure, the importance of wills and legal planning, and how to cope when final wishes can’t be met. You’ll also discover ways to create meaningful rituals, even for small or solo gatherings, to honor your loved one and find closure in the grieving process.
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Chapter 3
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Day 7: Signs, Symbols, and Connections with Loved Ones
Day 7 delves into the spiritual and emotional ways we stay connected to loved ones after they pass. We’ll explore signs and symbols like dreams, synchronicities, and messages from nature, as well as how these signs can bring comfort. You’ll also learn how to stay open to these connections and create personal rituals that honor the ongoing bond with your loved one.
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Day 8: Past Lives, Mediumship, and the Concept of Choosing Our Life Before Birth
On Day 8, we explore deeper spiritual concepts such as past lives, mediumship, and the belief that we choose our life and family before birth. These ideas provide a broader perspective on life, death, and the continued connection with loved ones. By the end of this session, you’ll have new insights into how these spiritual beliefs can help bring comfort and understanding to your grief journey.
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BONUS: A Podcast Companion to the Grief Course
Dive deeper into the key concepts of our grief course with this AI-generated podcast, powered by Google Notebook LM. Perfect for further study and reflection, the episode offers a concise breakdown of the course material, allowing you to absorb and process at your own pace. Listen anywhere, anytime, as you continue your healing journey.
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Meet Your Coach
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Robin The Death Doula
Robin is a former stand-up comedian turned Death Doula, Grief Coach, and counseling graduate student. She brings both depth and levity to the sacred work of supporting others through loss, transition, and personal transformation. With a commitment to helping people heal and grow after profound change, Robin blends humor, empathy, and insight to meet others where they are. Once rooted in Texas, she now lives near the quiet forests of Kittatinny Mountain, where she continues her work holding space for grief and guiding others toward their fullest expression.
Our course content is designed for general educational purposes and to provide information that may be beneficial for a wide audience. While we draw from material we believe to be reliable, valid, and grounded in relevant research, the responsibility lies with the participant to assess how the information applies to their own unique circumstances.
This course is not intended to replace professional advice from a qualified mental health practitioner. Participants should seek personalized support from a licensed provider who can offer guidance based on their specific situation and needs.
For those already in therapy or seeking supplemental support, you are welcome to reach out for coaching services. While coaching can be a valuable tool, it is distinct from therapy. Coaching focuses on goal setting, personal growth, and practical strategies, whereas therapy addresses deeper psychological issues and is guided by a licensed professional.
Course FAQ
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This course is designed for anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one and is looking for a supportive, structured way to navigate grief. Whether you are dealing with a recent loss or still struggling with grief from years ago, this course provides practical tools and compassionate guidance to help you heal.
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The course consists of 8 self-paced modules that combine therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with spiritual exploration. You'll learn how to manage acute grief, explore different types of loss, and engage in exercises like breathing techniques and EFT tapping to help you process emotions.
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No prior experience is necessary. The course is designed for individuals at all stages of their healing journey. Whether you’re new to therapeutic techniques like CBT and DBT or have experience with spiritual exploration, the modules are easy to follow and offer practical tools you can apply immediately.
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Healing Through Grief stands out by combining research-backed therapeutic techniques with open spiritual exploration in a balanced, supportive environment. It also includes unique elements like Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping and monthly Zoom support meetings, creating a holistic approach to healing. The course goes beyond theory, offering real-life applications to help you cope with grief while fostering personal growth and peace.