The Healthy Grieving Resolution Program is an eight-week educational program that allows individuals to heal from their pain of grief in a gradual, unfolding process.

Grief as an opportunity for change and growth:

A broken heart is a closed heart. Throughout our life we have unknowingly responded to the pain of loss as a way to hide and stay small in life. Each time we have our heart broken, we unconsciously decide to avoid the painful feelings of loss to protect ourselves, insulating ourselves from the painful experiences. It can give us a convenient excuse not to move forward in life and stay safe within our comfort zone. This is very normal and is an unconscious way people experience life, especially as we get older.

The Healthy Grieving Resolution Program is an educational program for those individuals who seek to open their heart anew to life and use the painful experience of loss as an opportunity for change and growth. It provides the choice to become conscious about how we experience life and take back our power and our life which we have unknowingly given away to the painful experience of loss.

The gift of The Healthy Grieving Program is the ability to take back the part of you that was unconsciously given away and build a relationship with yourself. A relationship with yourself enables you to become grounded in who you are and no longer subject to the fleeting experiences created by loss. The loss associated with grief becomes an opportunity to know yourself more fully and to move forward in life with a greater appreciation of yourself and the gifts of life. With Healthy Grieving you never lose anything; you gain the power to change and grow into a fuller expression of yourself.

The Healthy Grieving Resolution Program was developed by David Cope in response to the cultural resistance to grieving the loss of a loved one in two sessions with the original Healthy Grieving Process. It became clear from feedback that many individuals and therapists felt that grieving the loss of a loved one in such a short period of time was in some way “irreverent” – showing a lack of reverence or veneration for the loved one. This feedback also exposed that there is a cultural morality that prescribes that the process of grieving a loved one is a sacred and revered human experience and requires a period of mourning to honor the loved one.

The Healthy Grieving Resolution Program responds to this awareness by applying many of the fundamental principals of the human experience of grief and loss into an eight-week program. This educational program is also a healing modality; yet it provides the framework for individuals to gradually heal from the pain of grief and loss. It can be facilitated in either private therapy or in a group setting, which opens the program to individuals who find solace with others who are also grieving.

The Healthy Grieving Resolution Program is based upon the following principals of grief and loss:

1. Grief is a normal and natural human experience. The program has a very powerful way for individuals to grasp the human experience of grief and loss and to normalize their personal experience of this natural human experience.
2. Healing cannot take place at the level of a person’s story. The mind creates stories as a way to avoid the true feelings of loss and grief – the pain of loss is essentially suppressed by the stories. The program teaches individuals to safely transcend the stories of their loss and enter into their heart to express the truth of their experience where healing can begin to unfold.
3. In every experience of grief and loss, there is an opportunity for growth and change with the awareness of the gift of the loss. This gift unfolds within the program and allows individuals to open their heart to the experience. The acknowledgment of this gift makes it functionally impossible to maintain the pain of the loss – it naturally dissipates over time.
4. A broken heart is a closed heart. It is not possible for an individual to see the gift of loss as long as they maintain an emotional attachment to the pain and loss. The program teaches individuals how to feel their feelings around their loss, which is extremely effective in healing the emotional pain of the loss. From this fresh and unencumbered perspective, an individual can be open to the gift from the loss and clearly articulate it from their heart.

The benefits of this program are quite remarkable. The pain of the grief and loss is resolved which allows an individual to have a fresh and healthy perspective of their loss and a renewed attitude about moving forward constructively in their life. This educational program also instills individuals with a healthy view towards grief and loss and provides effective tools to face and manage future experiences of loss which are so common in the human experience.

For more information about this amazing educational program that allows you to heal from the pain of your grief and loss please contact us and we would be happy to talk with you.