Making Space For Grief
With Joni Staaf-StamfordThis course includes five sessions designed to be taken at your own pace. Although Insight Timer presents courses in a day-by-day format, grief does not follow a schedule. Whether you've lost a parent, a child, a spouse, or other loved one, grief can change how you experience yourself, your relationships, and everyday life. Making Space for Grief is a five-session course designed to help you meet grief with greater presence, understanding, and compassion. Rather than trying to fix grief, rush it, or “get over it,” you’ll learn practices for making room for difficult emotions, understanding the unpredictable nature of grief, and staying present with what you feel in manageable ways. Through guided reflection, mindfulness, breathwork, and body-based practices, you’ll explore how loss can affect your sense of identity and learn ways to reconnect with yourself. In the final session, you’ll consider how you might carry the person you lost forward through meaningful activities, places, traditions, or rituals. Although this course contains five sessions, grief is not a five-day process. Remember to take each session at your own pace and return to the practices whenever you need them. The intention is not to leave grief behind, but to learn how to make space for both grief and life.
Mindfulness and compassion for living with the loss of a loved one.
About this course
This course includes five sessions designed to be taken at your own pace. Although Insight Timer presents courses in a day-by-day format, grief does not follow a schedule. Whether you've lost a parent, a child, a spouse, or other loved one, grief can change how you experience yourself, your relationships, and everyday life. Making Space for Grief is a five-session course designed to help you meet grief with greater presence, understanding, and compassion. Rather than trying to fix grief, rush it, or “get over it,” you’ll learn practices for making room for difficult emotions, understanding the unpredictable nature of grief, and staying present with what you feel in manageable ways. Through guided reflection, mindfulness, breathwork, and body-based practices, you’ll explore how loss can affect your sense of identity and learn ways to reconnect with yourself. In the final session, you’ll consider how you might carry the person you lost forward through meaningful activities, places, traditions, or rituals. Although this course contains five sessions, grief is not a five-day process. Remember to take each session at your own pace and return to the practices whenever you need them. The intention is not to leave grief behind, but to learn how to make space for both grief and life.
Meet your Teacher
Joni Staaf-Stamford is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), and experienced mindfulness and meditation teacher with more than 20 years of experience in mental health and wellness. She holds a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology and has extensive training in mindfulness, yoga, meditation, and trauma-sensitive practices. Her work integrates evidence-informed counseling approaches with mindfulness and body-based practices to help people navigate difficult emotions, life transitions, loss, and change with greater awareness and self-compassion.