Ready to find a pathway back into life?
How to Ease the Pain and Get Unstuck
even if you believe…
it will never feel any better than it does right now.
The Writing Your Way Through Grief Workshop
Will teach you how to use writing to move through your grief.
…from the first days of disorientation following a death.
…to working through and resolving all of the enormous feelings of yearning, doubt, regret, and fear.
…to finally building a happy and meaningful life while still honoring the memory of the person who died, and your experience of grieving them.
Saturday, April 30, 2022 via Zoom
1pm – 4 pm Eastern
How would you feel about having a reliable tool to help you through your grieving process?
Do any of these scenarios describe you?
Scenario #1
- You just want the pain to end, but you don’t really believe it ever will.
- You yearn to have your old life back, but know that’s not possible.
- You’re still riding the roller coaster of early grief.
- You feel so disoriented you don’t even feel like yourself anymore.
- Your grief is so all consuming, you can’t imagine it ever getting better.
Scenario #2
- You can’t seem to get past the anger, regret and guilt.
- You may have reached the point where you don’t think about them every minute of every day but that makes you fear you’re forgetting them.
- You still have unfinished business with your loved one, your family members, or maybe the doctors.
- And it still feels like it will never end.
Scenario #3
- You have been through the acute grief of the first year+, and are thinking about your life going forward but not at all sure what that will look like.
- You actually doing ok but just ok. Life just isn’t particularly interesting.
- You struggle with questions of meaning. How do you find meaning and purpose out of this enormous life changing experience?
- You have been profoundly changed by this experience and you’re not even sure who you are anymore.
- You’re doing ok but you don’t even know what you’d like your life to look like going forward.
- You feel like you are living in limbo waiting for something to happen but you don’t think it will.
- So you’ve decided this is probably as good as it’s going to get.
What they all have in common is you’d like to be anywhere but here, and you have no idea what to do about it.
Maybe you’ve tried counseling or attending a support group, but neither seemed to help.
Maybe you’re a private griever who would never consider baring your heart and soul to a stranger, never mind a group of strangers, so you suffer alone.
Know what else these scenarios have in common?
WRITING HELPS!
No matter where you are in the grieving process, writing can help you move through your current challenge.
With grief, there will probably be another challenge right after that (at least for awhile), and writing will help with that one too.
Not only will writing help with what you are experiencing right now, but once you’ve learned the skill of writing for yourself, you will use it for years to come. It really is that powerful.
My name is Susan Fuller, Educator and Coach at Grief Heals. After 30 years of working with grief, creativity and personal transformation, I know how hard it is to grieve the death of someone you love.
I know because my clients have taught me more about grief than I ever wanted to know, and more than I could ever have learned from my own personal experiences, though I’ve had my share.
I am so grateful to all of them including the client who suggested I incorporate more creativity into my work with the grieving.
Well here I am.
I have been writing ever since I first discovered The Artist’s Way and began teaching Artist’s Way groups. Writing has become my go-to for when I am feeling confused, challenged, frustrated, stuck and happy. I have stacks of notebooks going back to the early 90’s.
Several years ago I began introducing writing to my grieving clients…stream of consciousness writing, letter writing and making lists.
Those who followed through didn’t just find it useful. Some were downright giddy about what they were identifying and releasing through the process of writing.
I want you to experience what writing can offer especially if you’re isolated from healthy support or you’re just a private griever who doesn’t feel comfortable sharing your pain.
So here’s what you can expect to gain…
In the first 1-3 months…
- You will be able to set aside all of those images, thoughts and feelings that are waking you up in the middle of the night.
- You will begin to find some peace from the yearning.
- You will rediscover stories about your loved one who died.
- For all of those things that have no words, the words will begin to find you so you can begin to make sense out of what you’re going through.
In the first year…
- You will be able to give a voice to feelings of anger, fear and regrets, and resolve whatever unfinished business is haunting you.
- You will begin to tentatively consider the future without your loved one.
- You will sort through the pieces of your life, and begin to figure out how the pieces will fit together.
- You will begin to explore the meaning of the relationship you had with the person who died and the grief that followed.
Beyond the first year…
- You will be able to explore what it all means and how this death fits into the entirety of your life.
- You will be able to decide what matters to you going forward and who you want to be.
- You will begin to plan a happy, meaningful and purposeful life.
- You will discover ways of integrating the memories of your loved one into your life moving forward without being consumed by loss.
Introducing…
The Writing Your Way Through Grief Workshop
How to Ease the Pain and Get Unstuck
Here’s what you’ll get…
√ Instruction and practice in stream of conscious writing, and how to make it part of your life. Though this sounds easy, almost everyone gets it wrong.
√ Troubleshooting all the ways this can go wrong so you will be successful developing a writing practice.
√ Discussion of how to apply stream of consciousness writing to letter writing, writing prompts and list making.
√ BONUS A private Facebook group so you can share your experience with writing and get help when you need it.
√ BONUS A copy of Mining Your Memories: Writing Prompts for Healing
√ BONUS Daily reminder emails for 1 month following the workshop to make sure you don’t forget to make this a habit.
What makes Writing Your Way Through Grief so different?
- You are not writing for anyone but yourself
- You are not writing a memoir.
- You are not writing a letter to say goodbye.
- This is more than just a series of writing prompts.
By learning this one technique you will…
- Learn to be an observer of your own process
- Find words for your own experiences, memories and images even when it seems there are no good words.
- Increase your self-awareness.
- Gain peace of mind.
- Decrease stress.
- Discover a safe place to explore feelings, memories, and experiences.
Are you ready to join me?
Saturday, April 30, 2022 via Zoom
1 pm – 4 pm Eastern Time
Recommended Price: $50 +/- ($25-$75) *See Fair Pricing Guidelines Below
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Here’s what others have experienced with writing and grief…
One client wrote for 6 weeks before writing a love letter to her partner. The love letter was a keeper but those 6 weeks of blather (later shredded) is what got her there.
Another client wrote and wrote about her anger at her siblings until she was giddy with relief. The writing had freed her from carrying all that stuff that went all the way back to childhood.
Another wrote a list of her regrets and read them to her husband’s ashes before burning them into oblivion.
Here’s what Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a leading researcher on trauma, has to say about writing…
When you write to yourself, you don’t have to worry about other people’s judgment—you just listen to your own thoughts and let their flow take over. Later, when you reread what you wrote, you often find surprising truths.
~ from The Body Keeps Score
Still not sure?
This workshop is a perfect fit for you if…
- You are feeling overwhelmed and disoriented by a recent death.
- You ruminating on the circumstances of the death.
- You are waking up in the middle of the night with images of the death.
- You are feeling confused by anger, regret, or guilt.
- You realize you still have some unfinished business with your loved one.
- You are afraid of forgetting them.
- You are trying to find meaning in this whole awful experience.
- You are feeling ok but want to create a life with more passion and purpose.
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Buy it, try it, apply it.
For those of you who are on the fence, have been burned in the past or just don’t really know me all that well yet, I want to give you every opportunity to reap the benefits of Writing Your Way Through Grief by giving it a try.
All I ask is you attend the workshop and give writing a try for 7 days. If you don’t feel things moving a bit please ask for your money back.
So are you coming?
Saturday, April 30, 2022 via Zoom
1 pm – 4 pm Eastern Time
Recommended Price: $50 +/- ($25-$75) *See Fair Pricing Guidelines Below
Convert to Other Time Zones: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
*Fair Pricing
I want you to feel good about what you pay me. And for my business to be sustainable, I need to feel good about it too. So this workshop is offered based on a Set Your Own Price model.
The recommended price is $50
The lowest sustainable price for me is $25
The highest suggested price is $75
Here’s how it works: Check in with your intuition, your gut, or your heart, as well as your bank account, to find the resonant price for you between $25-$75, and that’s the price you pay.
If paying the minimum sustainable price will leave you destitute, without food, shelter, or medical care, please reach out. I will do what I can to accommodate you.