How Grief Coaching Can Help You Move Forward: The Gentle Kick You Need.

Let's explore how grief coaching can offer coping strategies to help you move toward healing and discover your purpose after loss. It can be overwhelming when even getting a cup of coffee feels impossible. Everything you need is already inside you. Your body, mind, and spirit may feel unbalanced, disconnected, or overwhelmed by grief or loss. You need someone in your corner, someone neutral, who isn't needy and doesn't cry when they look at you.

I thought it might be helpful to share some of my experience. After my husband passed away, there I was with a toddler who was barely out of diapers and a baby on the way, five months along and counting the seconds. All I craved was to drown my sorrows in tequila and puff on Marlboro Reds until I snoozed like a baby. But hey, pregnancy had my back! During a sweltering July heatwave, I parked myself in the pool for hours, hoping for some magical moment when I'd start caring again—anything to shake off the grief. I was as numb as a dentist's patient, juggling a daughter who had lost her "Papa" and a baby who'd never get to meet his dad.

I was like a waddling, pregnant spectacle that people either gawked at with tears in their eyes or pretended didn’t exist. Seriously, who wants to chat with the pregnant widow? I felt like a bloated goldfish in a tiny bowl. "Let me know if you need anything," they said. Yeah, right! Like, anyone's actually going to ring you up. What I really needed was my posse—the people who know how to grill me with the perfect questions, push me forward, and, most importantly, crack me up!

That's the magic of coaching! We toss questions at you like confetti, giving you time to share what is important to you, providing many moments of pause, helping you see things from a different angle, and nudging you forward with a treasure map of steps to unearth your pot of Joy. We achieve it together. The greatest aspect of coaching is our unwavering support, while empowering you to make your own decisions. Loss is hard. Finding a qualified coach is one click away.