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Resources for conscious living, dying, and grieving
Explore resources and creative offerings that invite reflection, connection, and conscious living.
Welcome to a space for reflection, connection, creativity, and meaningful conversation about life, death, and grief. At In the Spirit of Healing, I offer resources, workshops, and gatherings designed to create space for exploration and deeper awareness. Whether you’re curious about living more consciously, preparing for the end of life, finding your way through grief, or simply wanting to have conversations we don’t often have, I invite you to explore, reflect, and discover what matters most.
Explore upcoming workshops, free talks, and transformative resources designed to support your healing journey.
Let’s create the ripple to enrich your life.
Upcoming Events
Growing With Your Grief
Meet Grief with Awareness and Intention
Grief is not a problem to be solved. It invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and make space for what has changed.
At In the Spirit of Healing, I believe grief is a natural part of being human and a reflection of the love and meaning carried in what we have lost. This 8-week holistic workshop offers a nurturing space to slow down, breathe, and experience your grief as it is—not as others expect it to be.
Together, we will create a compassionate space for reflection, connection, and conscious grieving as you explore how to carry your loss while continuing to live.
Through a blend of virtual and in-person sessions, we will explore grief with curiosity and compassion, making room for the many emotions, memories, questions, and changes that loss can bring.
Grief may be personal, but you don’t have to carry it alone. Community gives us a place to be witnessed, understood, and reminded that we can carry grief while continuing to live.
Growing with grief doesn’t mean leaving grief behind. It means discovering how grief can walk alongside you as you keep living.
For anyone navigating the death of someone they love-whether the loss is recent or has been carried for years. You may find yourself:
- Longing for a space where your grief can simply be what it is.
- Wondering how to carry your grief while continuing to live.
- Feeling disconnected from yourself or from others who seem to have moved on.
- Searching for ways to honor your relationship and the love that remains.
- Wanting to understand your grief rather than feel pressured to move beyond it.
- Looking for compassionate company as you find your own way forward.
- Seeking community with others who understand the experience of loss.
What can you expect?
- Weekly Guided Sessions: Explore the emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational dimensions of grief in a safe and compassionate space.
- Practices for Living with Grief: Explore journaling, ritual, somatic movement, reflection, and meaning-making practices to help you listen to your grief and discover ways to carry it as you continue to live.
- Connection and Community: Share, listen, and reflect with others who understand the experience of loss. A space to be witnessed, supported, and reminded that you don't have to grieve alone.
- Individual Session with Carole: A private one-on-one session with Carole following Week Seven, offering space to reflect on your experience and explore what you are discovering about your own path with grief.
Because grief is deeply personal, I invite you to have a brief conversation with me before registering. We’ll talk about where you are, what you’re looking for, and whether Growing With Grief feels like the best space for you right now.
Date: Winter, 2027
Time: TBA
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Kitchen Table Talks with Carole
Creating Ripples
We talk about what matters, what we fear, what we hope for, who we love, what we want to leave behind, and how we want to be remembered.
- Pull up a chair and settle in.
- Sometimes we talk about life. Sometimes we talk about dying. And sometimes we talk about loss.
- Why? Because we're living.
- Sit in good company — around a virtual table, with Carole and others, where listening is as welcome as speaking and connection does its quiet work.
- That's the beauty of the kitchen table.
“What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In this complimentary, virtual session, we welcome all.
Come curious, leave with a bit of clarity, a pinch of mystery, and lots of connection.
Date: TBA
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Cost: Complimentary
Bring a friend!
There’s always room at my table.
SoulCollage®: A Creative Path to Conscious Living
Growing With Awareness & Intention
What if you gave yourself space to listen to what is within you?
Life brings transitions—some chosen, some unexpected. A change in relationship, work, identity, health, home, or the death of someone we love can invite us to pause and reconsider who we are and what matters most.
SoulCollage® offers a creative and intuitive way to explore those questions. Through images, reflection, and conversation, you create a personal collage card that can open a door to your inner wisdom and perspectives that may be difficult to reach through words alone.
You don’t need to be an artist. There is no right or wrong way to create.
Simply bring your curiosity and a willingness to listen to what emerges.
Whether you’re navigating grief or change, exploring a new direction, or simply wanting to live more consciously, SoulCollage® offers a space to slow down, listen inward, and discover what is asking for your attention.
Come curious. Create. Reflect. Listen. Discover.
- Explore your inner world through imagery, creativity, and reflection.
- Create space for insight and self-discovery as you listen to what is emerging within you.
- Create your own unique SoulCollage® cards with all supplies and guidance provided.
Date: Fall, 2026 TBA
Time: 12:00–3:00 PM
Location:
Seating is limited to ensure a supportive interactive and personalized workshop experience.
Crafting Legacy Letters
Reflections on sharing your wisdom and love
Crafting Legacy Letters helps you share your love, wisdom, and life lessons through meaningful letters for your loved ones. Whether facing life transitions or simply reflecting, this program guides you in expressing your heart and creating lasting connections.
You’ll learn how to begin, what to say, and who to write to—whether family, friends, or even those who have passed. These letters become treasured keepsakes that heal, inspire, and preserve your legacy.
What you’ll gain from this program:
- Tools and guidance to write heartfelt letters that express your values, memories, and gratitude
- A meaningful way to heal, connect, and leave a lasting emotional gift for future generations
- Strategies to address difficult emotions and mend relationships through writing
- Support in creating rituals that honor life milestones and foster healing
Date: Fall, 2026 TBA
Time: 12:00–3:00 PM
Location:
Resources & links
Creating a community is critical to supporting the dying and grieving. I’ve curated resources to help your outreach. Connections create synergy and build community. Explore sections that interest you to expand your resources and cultivate your community.
Death Literacy
Death Cafés: Where people meet to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives.
Death Over Dinner: This project was created as a gift, invitation, and simple set of tools to help families and friends address the basic human fact that we are all, at some point, going to die.
Death Literacy Institute: The Death Literacy Institute works across systems – people, places, and organizations to embed skills, experience, actions, and knowledge that create and support the development of end-of-life, grief, and death literacy.
Kitchen Table Talks with Carole: Virtual connection and open conversation to share, learn, and engage. Normalizing the conversation about death, dying, and grief.
Support for Caregivers
Caring Bridges: Our mission is to build bridges of care and communication, providing love and support on a health journey.
Caregivers’ Resources: Select your state to find free advance directive forms for where you live.
Caregiver Action Network (CAN) is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life.
Support for the Dying
Death Cafés: Where people meet to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives.
Death Over Dinner: This project was created as a gift, invitation, and simple set of tools to help families and friends address the basic human fact that we are all, at some point, going to die.
Death Literacy Institute: The Death Literacy Institute works across systems – people, places, and organizations to embed skills, experience, actions, and knowledge that create and support the development of end-of-life, grief, and death literacy.
Kitchen Table Talks with Carole: Virtual connection and open conversation to share, learn, and engage. Normalizing the conversation about death, dying, and grief.
We provide non-medical support for Medical Aid in Dying. We guide and support you through the steps prior to and through the day you take your medication.
The Life of Death is a touching, hand-drawn animation about the day Death fell in love with Life. It has been well received at various animation festivals and featured on the EYE film DVD of Selected Dutch Shorts. Now, it is finally online!
Planning for Death
Compassion and Choices: An organization dedicated to improving care, expanding options, and empowering everyone to chart their end-of-life journey. Includes resources on VSED.
The Conversation Project: Helping people share their wishes for care through the end of life.
Free Advance Directive Forms by State from AARP: State-by-state advanced directive requirements.
Five Wishes: Five Wishes is the nation’s only national advanced care planning program. Providing peace of mind for more than 25 years.
Death with Dignity: National leader in end-of-life advocacy and policy reform focused on improving how people with terminal illnesses die.
Compassion and Support: Everyone 18+ should have family discussions about personal values and beliefs, choose the right spokesperson, and complete a health care proxy. NY State Advanced Care Planning.
Final Exit Network: We Support The Human Right To A Death With Dignity
Voluntary Stop Eating and Drinking Resource Network (VSED): Working to increase available resources on VSED.
End of Life Choices, NY: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking resources
End-of-Life Conversations Are Hard, But Your Loved Ones Will Thank You
Medical Aid in Dying (MAID): Medical aid in dying (MAiD) is a practice in which a physician provides a competent adult with a terminal illness with a prescription for a lethal dose of a drug at the request of the patient, which the patient intends to use to end his or her life.
Support for family and loved ones utilizing MaID
Bridge C-14: A Network of Peer-to-Peer Connections and Community Supports Through All Stages of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
After-Death Care
Green Burial Council: This is the place to learn more about green burial and how to find certified cemetery stewards, funeral professionals, and funerary product sellers who share the commitment to create more sustainable after-death options for you, your community, and the planet.
Natural Transitions: The Parlor is a monthly online community gathering on Zoom spotlighting holistic and environmentally friendly approaches to after-death care.
Funeral Consumer Alliance: Ensures consumers are fully prepared and protected when planning a funeral for themselves or their loved ones.
Spirit Vessel: Support for the transition of loss with personalized parting ceremonies and handcrafter ceramic urns to assist in grieving, honoring, and celebrating your loved ones.
Recompose Life: A full-service funeral home specializing in human composting.
National Home Funeral Alliance: Dedicated to increasing access to information related to community-led after-death care.
Grief Support
Grief.com:Grief.com is dedicated to helping everyone with the often unknown terrain that comes along with all kinds of grief.
Good Grief: An organization focused on teaching resiliency and facilitating healthy coping in the lives of more than 900 children each month by providing a caring and understanding environment like no other.
Grief in Common: The journey of grief provides an opportunity for great personal growth, reflection, and resilience that only the greatest challenges in our lives can design.
Center for Loss and Transition: An organization dedicated to helping people who are grieving and those who care for them.
The National Grief Center for Children and Families: Dougy Center provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and families who are grieving can share their experiences before and after a death. Flip the Script.
New Hope Grief Center: Our mission is to help bereaved children and families find hope and healing through connection and support.
Child Mind Institute: We’re dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need.
Grief Support for Children: Learning Grief is a free online resource created to help you support kids and teens navigate the big feelings that come with loss. Whether you’re a mentor, coach, youth leader, educator, or caregiver, you can use these tools to learn and model effective support—teaching kids how to navigate tough times and how to be there for their peers.
Books on Grief:
Suicide Project: Suicide Loss Support Group
Samaritans Hope: Samaritans’ SafePlace meetings are open groups of caring people who have lost a loved one to suicide.
Alliance of Hope: Support for suicide loss survivors. We believe no suicide loss survivor should go without support.
Reading List
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
The Art of Dying Well, Katy Butler
Advice for Future Corpses, Sallie Tisdale
Die Wise, Stephen Jenkins
A Year To Live, Stephen Levine
Death Is But A Dream, Dr. Christopher Kerr
More Beautiful Than Before, Steve Leder
The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo
Briefly, Perfectly, Human, Alua Arthur
The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Frances Weller
Can Anyone Tell Me?, Meghan Riordan Jarvis
Briefly, Perfectly, Human, Alua Arthur, Death Doula
The Full Catastrophe, Casey Mulligan Walsh
Loss: Poems to better weather the many waves of grief, Donna Ashworth
Seven Lessons for Living from the Dying, Karen Wyatt
The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Francis Weller
The Grieving Brain, Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD
Can Anyone Tell Me, Meghan-Riordan Jarvis
Staring at the Sun, Irving D. Yalom, MD
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