Holiday Grief
Meditations For The Winter Season
The holidays are stressful enough when you are not grieving. If you have experienced a major loss, this holiday season will be different than the last, and whether you share your grief openly, or keep things to yourself, managing your internal and external struggles will be less challenging once you master a few basic coping skills and plan how you want to approach the holidays.
This Meditation for Grief During the Holidays mini-course will offer you the tools you need to manage the manage the painful and mixed feelings that accompany grief, help you maintain your physical health, and explore how you can use difficult times to become your own best friend.
Your Instructor
Heather
Stang, MA, C-IAYT is the author of
Mindfulness & Grief, now in its
second edition, and the host of the
Mindfulness & Grief Podcast. She
has a Master’s Degree in Thanatology (death, dying and bereavement) and is a
certified yoga therapist and meditation instructor. Her own journey of love,
loss and posttraumatic growth fuels her passion for teaching bereaved families
and grief professionals how to use mindfulness-based techniques to cope with
grief, cultivate resilience, and prevent burnout. Heather is on the Advisory
Board for the highly regarded military family survivor organization
Tragedy
Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
, and has appeared on the award
winning television show about grief,
Open to Hope. In addition to her
own publications, Heather has contributed to
Techniques of Grief Therapy:
Assessment & Intervention,
edited by Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer. She
is the founder of the Frederick Meditation Center in Maryland as well as the
Mindfulness & Grief Training Institute, and volunteers with the Hospice of
Washington County and the Hospice of Frederick County.