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Give Grief a Pause
A 5-minute grounding meditation to gently bring your awareness back to the present and reconnect with your body. Calm your nervous system and restore a sense of peace and connection with yourself. This short, supportive practice is the perfect pause to reset.
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Transform Grief into Growth with Meaningful Support
Explore creative workshops and valuable resources that empower healing, connection, and self-discovery.
Welcome to a space where grief, growth, and self-reflection intertwine. At In the Spirit of Healing, our events and resources are designed to inspire healing, connection, and transformation. Whether you’re exploring creative ways to process loss or seeking meaningful conversations about life and death, you’ll find supportive opportunities here.
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
An Invitation to Healing
At In the Spirit of Healing, we believe grief is not a problem to be solved-it is a sacred invitation to presence, tenderness, and transformation.
This 8-week holistic workshop, offers a blend of virtual and in-person sessions, providing a nurturing space to slow down, breathe, and witness your grief as it is — not as others expect it to be. Together, we will create a compassionate container for reflection, clarity, and connection in the wake of loss.
Who would benefit by this workshop?
For anyone navigating the death of someone they love, whether the loss is recent or has been carried for years. You may be feeling:
- Overwhelmed, unsteady, or uncertain about how to express your grief.
- Curious about who you are becoming in the aftermath of loss.
- In need of permission to grieve at your own pace, without fixing or rushing.
- Need a way to carry your loss and live your life
What can you expect?
- Weekly Guided Sessions on the emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational aspects of grief.
- Practical tools to support your ongoing journey-including journaling, ritual, somatic movement, and meaning-making practices.
- Connection and reflection in a supportive community
- Private Session after week seven with Carole Heaney
To register, arrange your pre-workshop conversation to ensure this workshop is the best fit and timing for you.
Date: Jan. 11th-Feb. 22nd, 2026
Time: 1:00–3:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Kitchen Table Talks with Carole
Creating Ripples
Join me for a conversation on writing legacy letters.
If you had just one letter to leave behind, what would you say?
A legacy letter is a heartfelt way to share your stories, values, gratitude, and blessings with the people who made a difference in your life.
- Explore what a legacy letter is for you.
- Discuss what key elements to include that matter to you.
- Play with capturing your unique voice so it truly feels like you.
In this complimentary, virtual session, It’s not about being a writer—it’s about being real.
Bring a notebook, an open heart, and maybe the names of those you want to write to.
Come curious, leave with clarity, mystery, and connection.
Date: Nov. 19th, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Cost: Complimentary
Bring a friend!
There’s always room at my table.
SoulCollage® for Grievers
Growing With Your Grief
Loss takes many forms: the death of a loved one, a breakup, job loss, or losing a home. Each form of grief brings challenges—and opportunities for growth, adaptation, and self-reflection.
What if embracing your loss could unlock personal growth?
This SoulCollage® Workshop offers a creative method to explore your inner world. Amidst grief’s emotional noise, SoulCollage® helps you listen to your soul’s voice through imagery and creativity. No artistic skills are needed—just an open heart and willingness to explore.
- Gain tools to navigate and gain insight into your grief and find growth.
- A safe, creative space for self-reflection and expression to discover pathways to your healing.
- Supplies and guidance to create your own unique SoulCollage® cards.
Date: February 2nd, 2025
Time: 12:00–3:00 PM
Location: Sand Lake Merchant,
Averill Park, NY
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: February 2nd, 2025
Time: 12:00–3:00 PM
Location: Sand Lake Merchant,
Averill Park, NY
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.
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 VSED.
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
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