Riding the Waves, Honouring Your Grief.
Move through heartbreak and into remembrance via 5 mythic modules of story, body, sensation and written release.
Grief doesn’t follow a tidy timeline. It doesn’t wait for a convenient moment.
It arrives — sudden, slow, sweeping — and makes a home inside your chest.
But in this culture, we’re taught to repress, hide, numb it. To stay productive. Stay strong. Stay out of the mess.
Here’s the truth: Grief is not weakness. It is an initiation. A holy fire. A love letter written in tears.
So what if you let yourself grieve fully?
Not just the big deaths — but the subtler heartbreaks too? Lost dreams. Disappeared friendships. Aging. Estranged family. Identity unravelings.
What if grief could be generative? What if it could make you more alive?
Honouring your grief is about allowing.
To cry without apology. To ache without explanation. To fall apart — and find beauty in the falling.
In this self-paced course, you’ll receive sensual, myth-infused guidance through 5 deep-dive modules.
Each is designed to alchemize grief into meaning — using story, somatic practices, and writing prompts that move through marrow and memory.
Introducing Riding the Waves. Honouring Your Grief
A 5-module self-paced course for the tender-hearted and the grief-split.
This course doesn’t fix grief. It midwives it.
You’ll walk with archetype, anatomy, fairytales and forgotten wisdom — and come out the other side changed.
In this self-directed course you’ll walk through your grief and into your embodied aliveness.
→ You’ll grow a deeper capacity for presence, tenderness, and personal truth.
→ You’ll meet mythic figures and symbols who illuminate the terrain of grief.
→ You’ll cultivate a raw appreciation for the ways grief destroys and creates. All in a safely guided, self-paced, and textured space.
Riding the Waves is a guided exploration of grief as a sacred companion.
It reveals what you love, what you’ve lost, and how to keep living inside that paradox.
Honouring your grief is about beauty.
Not surface level beauty — truth beauty. The kind that glimmers when your tears meet candlelight. When laughter erupts in the middle of mourning.
Riding the Waves,
Honouring Your Grief: Course breakdown
A 5-module journey into the sacred ache of being human
Inside each of the 5 course modules you’ll find:
A story theme with by a unique teaching to deepen your understanding of grief
A body-based technique and/or creative action to soften your grief responses
Playful and thoughtful writing prompts to deepen your understanding of your grief
A resource list for continued learning
Module 1: The World of Magical Thinking
Grief unmoors us from reality. Time bends. Logic wavers.
→ In this module, we honour the liminal — exploring how grief cracks open portals between what was, what is, and what we’re not ready to admit.
Module 2: Sitting With Our Selves
When connection feels impossible, turning inward can become a powerful balm.
→ In this module, we cultivate self-witnessing through self-portraiture.
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3: Tall Tall Shadows
Grief has teeth — rage, unfairness, unmet needs — and it’s chew with them.
→ In this module, we explore grief, rage and our shadowy selves through the Death Mother archetype.
Module 4: Smell, Memory and Grief
A scent can open floodgates. Grief lives in the senses — especially smell.
→ In this module, we explore the connection between our sense of smell and our memories.
Module 5: Tear Water Tea
Tears are not a breakdown — they’re a brew. Grief steeps us in love.
→ In this module, we embrace our tears as a way of cracking ourselves open into joy and love. Plus a daily photo meditation project.
Riding the Waves: your grieving journey begins here
Move at your own pace. Feel your sadness. Reclaim your joy.
$40 $20 USD
Riding the Waves: Honouring Your Grief
- 🕯️ 5 mythic, textured grief modules
- ✍🏽 Writing prompts that crack and soothe
- 🧘🏽♀️ Body-based and creative rituals
- 📚 Resource lists for deeper wandering
- 💻 All available immediately, self-paced
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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Just an email address, internet access, and a willingness to feel. The materials are all online, and you can move through them at your own pace — whether that means five days or five months.
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Because grief isn’t linear — but this course offers five touchstones.
Each one is crafted to evoke, support, and move something in you.
There are no live calls, no forced timelines — just deep, spacious work.
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Yes — I offer other self-directed courses and live group programs.
You’ll get updates if you stay on my newsletter.
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I’ve been a hands-on trauma-informed bodyworker for 17+ years, and I’ve guided groups through transformational writing work for over a decade.
I’ve done the intensive Yukon Hospice grief work training.
But more than that — I’ve lived it.
Grief taught me how to hold grief.
I’ve ridden those waves. And I can hold you while do too.
Your grieving journey begins here.
Work through this 5-module course at your own pace.
