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Life And Death Wisdom
With Louis Weinstock‘It Is Only When We Face Death That We Become Most Fully Alive’ A deep journey designed to help you turn towards death and become more fully alive, so that every cell of your heart, your mind, and your body tingles with vitality. The course contains 6 beautifully crafted lessons, each filled with heart-warming wisdom, and transformative meditations on life, death, grief. With a balance of personal storytelling, engaging meditations, journal exercises, and transformative wisdom shared from various life and death teachings from across the world, you’ll learn about Death as Life’s Greatest Teacher, How to Befriend the Fear of Death, how to overcome self-sabotage by using Sigmund Freud’s theory of the Life and Death instinct, and the Surprising Magical Power of Grief. By the end of this series, you will have gently and compassionately discovered your answer to perhaps the most important question of all, one from the Zen buddhist tradition: Since death is certain, and it’s timing uncertain, what is important now?
How to befriend your fear of death, take care of your grief, and become fully alive.
About this course
‘It Is Only When We Face Death That We Become Most Fully Alive’ A deep journey designed to help you turn towards death and become more fully alive, so that every cell of your heart, your mind, and your body tingles with vitality. The course contains 6 beautifully crafted lessons, each filled with heart-warming wisdom, and transformative meditations on life, death, grief. With a balance of personal storytelling, engaging meditations, journal exercises, and transformative wisdom shared from various life and death teachings from across the world, you’ll learn about Death as Life’s Greatest Teacher, How to Befriend the Fear of Death, how to overcome self-sabotage by using Sigmund Freud’s theory of the Life and Death instinct, and the Surprising Magical Power of Grief. By the end of this series, you will have gently and compassionately discovered your answer to perhaps the most important question of all, one from the Zen buddhist tradition: Since death is certain, and it’s timing uncertain, what is important now?
Meet your Teacher
Louis Weinstock is a Transpersonal Psychotherapist who works with children and the child inside us all. He helps people find a light in the darkness – in the things that are unseen, unheard and unspoken. For over 20 years, he has expertly guided children and grown-ups through some of the toughest challenges life can throw at us – loss, trauma, divorce, burnout, and breakdowns. He has studied death since his early 20s, worked in a hospice counseling families with a terminal illnesses, and supported people through their grief. He runs The Magic Power Of Grief Workshops. He is also co-founder of Apart of Me, a multi-award-winning charity that helps children, young people, and families transform their grief into compassion. His book 'How The World Is Making Our Children Mad, And What To Do About It' was published by Penguin in June 2022. His work has been featured on the BBC, ITV, and in the Guardian newspaper. He lives in Manchester with his wife and daughter.