Self-Care Healing Spaces For Grief & Loss

In our first session together, you will be immersed in our first healing space of self-nurture. This is a foundational self-care technique that will become a meaningful practice for you right away as a coping strategy you can use long after our time is over to offer soothing care to yourself. It will serve to both comfort you and awaken your inner healer as you move through your grief.

Session two invites you to experience the self-care healing space and positive energy-flow of positive memories as a healing gift from your loved one; a gift in which you can begin to find yourself again as you recall the good times you once shared with your loved one. The healing energy of positive memories also helps you to regain courage to face the future.

Session three looks at how the body, mind and spirit/soul express emotion in the absence or presence of food and sleep. An awareness of these responsive inter-connected links helps you to meet the challenges of your grief with the strength you receive from the energy of balanced nutritional support, hydration, and adequate rest and sleep. Together, these supports fuel your inner light and temporarily lift you out of the darkness of your grief.

In Session four, our healing pathway leads us to the potential self-care healing space of exhaustion, one of the components of the mists that surround our healing pathway. Despite attempts to prevent exhaustion, often the inability to sleep over an extended period of time, combined with the emotional exhaustion of grief, simply bring one’s life to a standstill where care of the self is essential to recover from its debilitating effects. In today’s session we turn to nature to help us in our recovery using a guided imagery of the healing space of ancient earth energy.

In session five, the elements of nature are introduced as a sacred healing space, selecting the earth element as a place to begin this understanding. You are encouraged to experience a new kind of self-care healing and comfort from the earth as you walk with mindful awareness, awakening to your relationship with nature, and the potential that exists within nature for your own personal healing.

In session six, we focus on some of the many attributes of the water element as a healing force within nature - both externally and internally - and as an ancient healing resource for us as we grieve. Specific suggestions derived from water element’s teachings are offered for you, giving rise to your being open to receive self-care healing from these teachings as you grieve.

Session seven introduces the fire element in its various symbolic forms as a comforting healing space during grief. Within the fire element, unspoken and undemanding companionship is undeniably experienced within one’s own home through this ancient vehicle of comforting support. Energies return as part of your self-care healing awareness, stimulated by the fire element warming your heart with its familiarity.

In session eight, the healing pathway leads you to find stimulating comfort and solace from something as simple as a pleasing fragrance reaching out to you, carried by the ancient, life-giving air element, uplifting you instantly with its “in the moment” self-care healing space of beauty and familiarity. Causing you to stop and heal in place, aware of the peaceful inner space within you as you do this.

Session nine integrates your understanding that the healing benefits from each of the elements of nature are found within the presence of the ether element; its effect - both externally and internally - allows you to experience the sense of peace and pleasure that each of the elements creates within you, expanding your horizons as you stop to heal in place, to absorb the beauty and awe within these moments of self-care healing space. Expanding you internally, preparing you to greet your inner sun again.

Session ten reviews the key points of the course and offers healing affirmations as a meditative focus as you walk in nature. Combining meditation with exercise has been shown to reduce depression. Forest breathing research also shows measurable reduction in stress levels, an important factor and supportive self-care healing space as you are grieving. One can never say how long it will take to recover from your grief; what is important, is that you bring honour to the soul of the one you grieve by bringing honour and comfort to your own soul. And as you do this, you will be able to lift your eyes to see and feel the comforts of the sun again. This pathway of continuous healing is dedicated to my late brother, Gordon.