Riding the waves, honouring your grief.
Imagine crying freely and expressing the pain of losing a loved one, without apology.
Imagine grieving without feeling you must tend to the discomfort of the grief and loss-averse people in your life.
Imagine embracing the pain of grief as an indicator that you’re fully human, and also able to be joyous.
Imagine how it would feel to let yourself grieve the smaller losses. Jobs. Relationships. Divorce. Homes. Friends. Transitions. Aging.
Imagine letting go and moving into the new shape of your life by working with unique, creative, healing themes (drawn from mythology, anatomy, fairytales and anthropology.)
Honouring your grief is about allowing.
It’s about witnessing, as we allow for the full range of feelings that come with loss.
Imagine having support and guidance from a guide with body-based trauma-informed training, who can help you face the painful, distressing and overwhelming parts of your life - the griefstricken parts that have got you stuck.
Support to grieve when we’ve never seen anyone go through a healthy grieving process?
Support to grieve when we don’t know how?
Support to grieve when we can’t cry around our loved ones?
It’s hard to grieve fully and deeply when that need is not honoured or supported, and when the people around you feel so uncomfortable around your feelings and their own.
If you’re reading this and saying “yes, I want that!” I want you to know that becoming intimate with your grief is possible.
I want you to know that allowing space for grief is the key to deeply connected joy.
Yet, we live culturally disconnected from grief and sadness.
Contemporary society denies us even the simple knowledge that grieving is useful, should be supported, and can heal the heartbreak.
But we know better. In this course you’ll walk through your grief and embrace it as the life-giving force that it is.
Introducing
Riding the waves,
honouring your grief.
A 5-module online journey in which you’ll move through loss and heartbreak into deep joy.
Healing via 5 weekly modules containing stories, insights and writing prompts, as well as plenty of tools and techniques that offer eclectic ways of understanding and being in relationship with and healing grief.
Honouring your grief is a discovery of beauty.
The beauty that comes by moving through grief to the other side. The beauty of sparkling moments of joy and of connection, all of which are only possible because of the grieving that has been done.
Course breakdown
There are 5 modules delivered weekly (also accessible in an all-in-one webpage)
Each module includes:
A story theme accompanied by a unique teaching to help you understand and deepen into your grief
Accessible artistic and/or body-based action to unravel and unwind
Playful and thoughtful writing prompts designed to deepen you into greater understanding of your grief
A resource list with optional extra resources for learning and deepening
You’ll explore your multifaceted angles and embrace the grieving process so you can tap into the joy waiting on the other side.
Module 1: the world of magical thinking
Exploring the ways that grief takes us into a realm outside of place and space.
Module 2: sitting with our selves
Cultivating self-witnessing through self-portraiture.
Module
3: tall tall shadows
Exploring grief, rage and our shadowy selves through the death mother archetype.
Module 4: smell, memory and grief
Exploring the connection between our sense of smell and our memories.
Module 5: tear water tea
Embracing our tears as a way of cracking ourselves open into joy and love. Plus a daily photo meditation project.
Your grieving journey begins here.
Work through this 5-module course at your own pace.
Pay in full
$40
- Riding the waves, honouring your grief.
- Includes 5 modules
- Lifetime access
Hi there. My name is Janelle and I’ve got a particular passion for grief-work.
My initiation into deep grief was catalyzed by the dissolution of two important relationships, the loss of much of my identity when I became a self-employed solo mother, and, finally, my father’s diagnosis of leukemia.
Facing mortality followed by four years of watching my dad live with then die from cancer was a shattering into grief.
During my dad’s cancer I also did my local Hospice Society’s volunteer training, until, as I was almost complete, he died.
So one of the things I do is help people like you work with their big grief, their big feelings, and their lifestories.
I’ve been working as a trauma-informed Structural Integrator doing one-on-one hands-on healing bodywork for 13+ years, and teaching individuals and groups for even longer.
I’m skilled in braiding our creativity and our body-wisdom together with our deep cultural knowing and self exploration (and grief is a great catalyst for self-exploration) to create spaciousness, ease and joy in our lives.
So join me in honouring your grief.
It’ll be rich, healing, and, ultimately, very joyful.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What do I need to take this class?
An email account.
Access to the internet.
Time. Each e-mail lesson will take between 20 minutes to a couple hours (which you can space out during your week, as needed.)
Why does this course only have 5 modules? And no videocalls?
Working with our grief is an ongoing process, so I designed these 5 modules to contain ideas, concepts, exercises and prompts that will spark the most shift for you, which can be worked through at your own pacing.
In my experience, grief is a wild and ever-moving wave, and the timing is very different for each person.
You can trust that this process is a good one, and if you engage with each of the 5 modules, there will be plenty of transformation for you.
Can I get more services added to this? I want to work with you more/work with my whole lifestory.
Absolutely. I offer a complementary course on anger, and also offer an online 13-module transformational memoir-writing course The Art of Personal Mythmaking.
These courses are rich, deep and wonderful, and very much complementary.
How are you qualified to teach griefwork?
Thanks for asking.
I’ve got 13+ years experience doing hands-on healing work, 5+ years experience facilitating group healing processes (my Art of Personal Mythmaking course) and I completed almost all of my Hospice Yukon volunteer training done (all about death, dying, grief and how to accompany people in their grieving.)
The only reason I didn’t finish the Hospice Yukon training was because in 2010, after 4 years living with leukemia, my father died. At that moment I left the anticipatory training grounds of griefwork and I began my experiential apprenticeship with death and grieving.
In my healing arts experience, I’ve been witness to the many ways that, in contemporary cultures, grieving and mourning gets repressed. Because of that, I began to grow my skills and experiences in supporting the grief acknowledgement and grief-release work that was more and more necessary for people to heal.
Your grieving journey begins here.
Work through this 5-module course at your own pace.
