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Grief Coaching

Grief is sacred. Grief is holy. Grief is a portal through which we can find our truest and most authentic selves. Grief can be heavy and difficult to process on our own in a culture that often asks us to turn away from grief and focus on silver linings. 

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In my practice I do not "fix" or disappear grief you are experiencing, but I can help you process, metabolize, and integrate it into your life. Integrating grief into your life helps you:

  • have more emotional balance during your day

  • feel less isolated in your grief

  • increase your capacity to hold joy as well as grief

  • feel more "whole" instead of a sum of compartmentalized parts

  • understand grief as an experience that shapes you rather than hinders you​

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All grief is sacred and as your coach I walk with you through the forests and fields of your grief at entry points of your choosing (ie you don't need to disclose any more than you are comfortable with during our sessions). Examples of personal grief I work with are (but not limited to):

  • death of a loved one or pet

  • Your life or path looking or feeling differently than you expected it to

  • romantic or platonic relationships ending

  • Navigating shifting identities as we grow and change during life

  • job loss

  • medical/disease diagnosis

  • the grief medical professionals carry due to traumatic events and moral injury

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If you are feeling the grief of the collective in times of polycrisis, I can work with you by helping you:

  • navigate collective grief with affirmation and validation

  • see your grief reflected back to you to affirm you are not alone

  • develop practices including ritual, meditation, and movement, to metabolize your grief in a world that can often feel disappointing and devastating

  • have a witness to your own grief as you witness for others

 

In any grief coaching session, you will have my undivided attention, compassion, grace, maybe some art and often even laughter. I look forward to helping you integrate grief into your life for healing, wholeness, and joy.

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Grief Coaching vs Therapy

As a coach, I am here to help you start where you are and move forward through your grief at whatever pace is comfortable to you. We will be forward facing, while holding space for and honoring the loss that has produced your grief. I will help you integrate grief into your life without the expectation that at some point you "move on" or "get over" your loss. Together we will work on "what's next" and move towards those goals. 

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As a grief coach I do NOT: diagnose or treat mental disorders; seek to heal mental disorders; determine objectives of our work based on diagnosis; provide counseling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis or any other form of mental health care or therapy. 

Testimonials

Coaching Client

"I came to Abby for help working through a specific area of grief in my life. I left with a fundamentally different relationship with grief, life, and the world around me. Not only am I a better griever now, I am a better human."

 

 

 

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