Category Archives: Events & Courses

When People Tell You That You Haven’t “Dealt With” Your Grief…

Open Call: “Grief Support 101” With The Creative Grief Coaching Studio Tomorrow (15 January 2013, at 2pm EST), Kara and I will be doing an open call about the core themes in the approach to grief support that we teach in our Creative Grief Coaching Certification Course. It’ll be a sort of “Grief Support 101”…

Top 8 Books I Recommend For Grieving & Living Wholeheartedly After Loss

I often get asked for book recommendations on the topic of grieving. I’m normally a book-addict but I found myself unable to read for the first 6 months after Juggernaut died – I just didn’t have the concentration span or will. Once I started reading again though, to be honest, I found that really great…

Why You Should Be Suspicious of Stories About Grief & Healing

Yesterday a good friend of mine posted this video of Tyler Cowen, an economist, speaking about why we should be suspicious of stories. Tyler’s point: Stories make a messy reality seem neat, purposeful, meaningful, and that’s one of the reasons why our brains love stories. But the problem is that reality is actually very messy, complex…