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Death & Bereavement
When someone you love dies, the loss does not remain confined to the moment of death.
It can change ordinary mornings, family gatherings, familiar places, future plans, and even your understanding of who you are.
There is no timetable for when that should stop mattering.
But grief does not have to require withdrawing from the life that is still here.
Understanding Bereavement
Grief is one of the most natural responses to love. It may affect your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, routines, and sense of the future. There is no right timeline. There is no perfect way to grieve.
Every relationship is unique.
Every loss is unique.
If your experience feels different from someone else's, that doesn't mean you're grieving incorrectly.
It simply means your relationship was uniquely your own.
Group Information
Grief Recovery After the Death of a Loved One is a small, private online group for women grieving the death of someone significant in their lives.
Your loss may be recent, or it may have happened years ago. You may have lost a spouse or partner, parent, adult child, sibling, friend, or another person whose absence changed your life.
You do not need to be at a particular stage of grief to participate.
This group uses the structured Grief Recovery Method to help you look honestly at your relationship, identify what remains emotionally unfinished, and take concrete steps toward completion.
Dates: January 27-March 17, 2027
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Online
Group size: 10
Sessions: 8
Cost: $495
Future Learning Opportunities
Structured grief recovery groups for women who want guided support in a quiet, respectful setting.
What the Group Offers
Grief can contain much more than sadness.
There may be love and gratitude alongside anger, regret, relief, guilt, unfinished conversations, things you wish you had done differently, and things you desperately wish you could say now.
The group provides a structured way to work with what remains unfinished rather than expecting time alone to resolve it.
Together, we will work through the Grief Recovery Method in a small group of women who are also living with death loss.
The purpose is not to forget the person who died.
It is not to stop loving them.
And it is not to “move on” as though the relationship no longer matters.
The work is about becoming less constrained by what remains unfinished so that memory, love, and loss can take their place within a life you are still able to fully inhabit.
What to Expect
This is an educational, action-based grief recovery program rather than therapy or an open-ended grief support group.
Over the course of the program, you will be guided through a structured process that includes reading, reflection, written exercises, and specific Grief Recovery Method activities between meetings.
You will not be expected to tell your entire story to the group.
You choose what you share.
Sessions are not recorded, cameras are optional, and privacy is taken seriously.
You may cry.
You may laugh.
You may remember something you had forgotten.
You may discover that what hurts most is not what you expected.
There is no correct way to perform grief here.
There is simply an opportunity to work honestly with your own.
Not Ready for a Group Yet?
You don't need to make a decision today.
This 12-part series explores some of the experiences that can follow the death of someone we love—not as a formula for getting over grief, but as a way of understanding what loss can change and how life can gradually become more available again.
1. When Someone You Love Is No Longer Here
The first reality of death loss is also the hardest: someone who occupied a real place in your life is physically absent. We begin by making room for that reality without rushing toward acceptance, meaning, or recovery.
2. The Grief Hidden Inside Ordinary Days
Major occasions are difficult, but grief often lives in much smaller places: the empty chair, the grocery store, the television program you watched together, the impulse to call. We'll explore why ordinary moments can carry such extraordinary grief.
3. Grieving the Relationship You Actually Had
Death does not turn every relationship into a perfect one. Love can coexist with conflict, disappointment, anger, distance, dependence, or things that were never resolved. This piece makes room for grieving the real relationship rather than the one other people expect you to describe.
4. The Things You Didn't Get to Say
Death can leave conversations unfinished. There may be apologies, gratitude, anger, questions, explanations, or ordinary words you assumed there would be time to say later. We'll look at what it means to live with unfinished communication—and what can still be done with it.
5. When Memories Bring Both Comfort and Pain
Memories can become precious after death, but they can also hurt. A photograph can make you smile one day and undo you the next. This piece explores how our relationship with memory can change as grief changes.
6. Birthdays, Holidays, Anniversaries, and the Empty Place
Some dates announce the absence before they arrive. Others surprise us. We'll look at traditions, anniversaries, family gatherings, and the freedom to decide what you want to continue, change, or simply get through this year.
7. When Other People Think You Should Be Doing Better By Now
Grief has no universally appropriate timetable, but other people sometimes behave as though it does. We'll explore the pressure to “move on,” comparisons between losses, unhelpful advice, and how to protect your own grief without making it your entire identity.
8. Who Are You When Someone Important to Your Life Is Gone?
We do not only lose people. Sometimes we lose roles: wife, daughter, sister, caregiver, best friend. This piece explores what happens when death changes part of your identity—and how to discover what remains without erasing who you were together.
9. The Fear That Living Means Leaving Them Behind
Sometimes beginning to feel better creates its own grief. Laughing, traveling, changing the house, forming new relationships, or simply having a good day can feel strangely disloyal. We'll explore the difference between continuing to love someone and continuing to suffer for them.
10. You Don't Have to Let Go of Love
Recovery does not require severing your relationship with someone who died. Love, memory, influence, stories, traditions, and even an ongoing inner relationship can remain. The question becomes not whether you must let go, but what you are carrying forward.
11. Making Room for Life Without Making the Loss Smaller
A life can begin expanding again while grief remains part of it. Pleasure does not cancel love. Interest does not erase memory. New relationships do not replace old ones. This piece explores the gradual return of participation without demanding that grief disappear first.
The person who died mattered. The relationship mattered. The loss matters.
And your life matters too.
If You Found Yourself Wanting to Tell Me About Them
Perhaps somewhere in this series you thought:
Yes. That's exactly what happened.
Or perhaps you disagreed.
Remembered something.
Wanted to tell a story.
Wanted someone to know what they were like before they became “the person who died.”
Perhaps you realized there are still things you wish you could say.
Grief does not always need to be fixed.
But sometimes there are parts of a relationship that remain emotionally unfinished long after the death.
My Grief Recovery After the Death of a Loved One group offers a small, private, structured place to work with what remains unfinished without asking you to let go of the person you love.
The goal is not to forget.
It is to become less burdened by what remains unfinished so you can carry the relationship while participating more fully in your own life.
If you would rather talk privately before deciding whether a group is right for you: