Just because you don't talk about it, doesn't mean your loss isn't real and valid.
Just because others are dismissive of your loss, doesn't mean your loss isn't real and valid.
Just because your current culture and environment may be grief-illiterate, doesn't mean your loss isn't real and valid.
Validate your loss by noticing and naming it.
Choose how you want to allow yourself to process and pass through this loss.
If only the loss in either work and life contexts were more simple. Sadly, it's not. The only way through is through.
What does courage in your loss, look like for you today?
Lead yourself well.
"My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn't go as planned, and that's okay." Quote by Rachel Wolchin
If you have experienced loss of any kind....
If you are ready, willing and able to honour and process 'what didn't go as planned'.....
Consider enrollment in a one-hour, 10-week grief and loss coaching group, that will be a foundation for the reality you find yourself in.
10 Touchstones by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt (required text for coaching group)
1. Open to the presence of your loss
2. Dispel a dozen misconceptions about grief
3. Embrace the uniqueness of your grief
4. Explore your feelings of loss
5. Understand the six needs of mourning
6. Recognize you are not crazy
7. Nurture yourself
8. Reach out for help
9. Seek reconciliation, not resolution
10. Appreciate your transformation
Logistics:
Fee is $499+gst
Option of once a month 1:1 coaching available for $135+gst per session.
CDN funds please.
Curious?
Interested?
DM or email [email protected] for a copy of the syllabus.
If you are unsure, if this is a good fit for you and would like to experience a one-time coaching session with me, please email [email protected] and ask for my calendar for this one-time offer of one-hour coaching for $70+gst. (limited availability)
Lead yourself as well as you can. I'll be present with you!
A reminder...
In business.
At work.
In life.
Irrespective of age, status, financials or level of education - loss will find you.
Time alone does not heal wounds of loss of face, loss of respect, loss of value, loss of health, loss of income, loss of place, loss of our people and loss of _____________ (you name it).
Notice your expectations.
Name your expectations.
Use time to follow through in ways that will help you honour the loss, and honour the healing journey.
No rush to heal.
Only a reminder of the invitation to notice and name the loss. And then, with time and over time, allow the wounds to integrate into who you are becoming.
Lead yourself well *through* the messy wounds of loss.
Am I the only one who has endured grief and loss?
Sadly, all humans experience grief—it's a difficult reality for all of us.
Grief is best experienced in 'doses'. Be patient with yourself and others. This is a journey that can not be rushed, although it can be honoured, befriended and integrated over time.
Over time, I hope your grief softens and transforms into something that allows your natural compassion to shine even brighter, bringing comfort and kindness to yourself and to those around you. Although the journey is yours, you need not traverse this journey alone.
Reach out to trusted others around you. Ask them to listen. Tell them what you want and what you need. Find people who hear you, who see you.
And if you feel like a grief and loss support group is a meaningful fit for you right now, reach out to join (or receive more info) on the grief and loss support group starting on October 8th. (10 weeks).
Lead yourself well.
