When life has changed in ways you did not choose

Grief can change how you experience your body, your thoughts, your relationships, and your sense of time. Some days feel manageable. Other days arrive heavier than expected.

You are not expected to move on, stay strong, or find meaning before you are ready. This is a place to slow down and meet what is happening right now, without pressure or pretending.

Support here is practical and grounded, helping you adapt to what has changed while staying connected to what still matters.

A mindful way to work with grief and anxiety

Grief does not live only in your thoughts. It shows up in your body, your breath, your attention, and how you move through daily life. That is why insight alone is often not enough.

The Mindfulness and Grief System offers a practical way to relate to grief differently, especially in the moments when it feels most present. Rather than analyzing your loss or pushing pain away, this work focuses on noticing what is happening now and responding with more awareness and care.

Over time, these practices can help reduce overwhelm, ease anxiety, and support your ability to live, connect, and make choices again. The goal is not to remove grief, but to change your relationship with it so it does not take over everything.

This approach guides the workshops, the community, the one-on-one work, and the professional training offered here.

How support is offered here

Support is designed to meet you where you are and respect your pace. There is no expectation to share more than you want to or to know what you need right away. You can begin by listening, noticing what helps, and taking in only what feels workable.

Some people find relief in being with others who understand what grief can take away. Group support offers shared experience, guided practices, and the reassurance of returning to the same space over time.

Others need a more contained setting. One-on-one support allows for slower pacing, closer attention, and care shaped around the specific details of your loss.

Both options are grounded in the same mindful approach. You are not choosing what you will need forever, only what feels supportive now.

Where you can begin

Grief can make it hard to know what kind of support will help, or when to start. You do not need to decide everything at once. These are simply places to begin, based on what feels most accessible right now.

The Living With Grief workshop is a free monthly online gathering that introduces this mindful approach through education, reflection, and a short guided practice. It offers a way to experience the work before committing to anything further.

The Awaken Community provides ongoing group support for people living with loss. It is a place to return to, with shared practices, conversation, and time to be understood as grief unfolds.

One-on-one support offers a more private setting. This can be especially helpful if your grief feels complex, overwhelming, or difficult to share in a group.

You are welcome to move slowly, explore quietly, and choose what feels workable now.

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For professionals who support people through grief 

This work is also for counselors, therapists, coaches, chaplains, meditation teachers, yoga teachers and therapists, and care providers who support people through grief. Those who do this work often carry more than is visible, especially when grief is ongoing or complex.

The Mindfulness and Grief System offers a clear, compassionate framework for supporting bereaved people without rushing the process or trying to fix what cannot be fixed. It provides practical tools that help clients stay present with their experience while reducing overwhelm and shutdown. Practitioners gain a structure they can rely on, even in complex situations.

This approach is the foundation of the professional training and certification offered here. It is the same system used in individual and group support, and the same framework that underpins the books and resources used by grievers and practitioners alike.

Whether you are looking to deepen your skills, bring a mindful grief framework into your existing work, or train specifically in grief support, this path is here for you.

Attend the free professional training webinar on the Mindfulness and Grief Coach Certification Program

A trusted approach, recognized by the field

The Mindfulness and Grief System is recognized for its thoughtful, non-pathologizing approach to grief support. It is featured in the Handbook of Grief Therapies and used by professionals working in hospice, healthcare, counseling, education, and community settings.

In 2025, Heather Stang received the Association for Death Education and Counseling Clinical Practice Award for Innovation in Grief Support. This award recognizes her contribution to advancing compassionate, evidence-informed grief care.

This work is grounded in modern grief theory, mindfulness practice, and lived experience. It has been shaped through decades of supporting bereaved individuals and training professionals who work with loss in real-world settings.

Both grievers and practitioners often describe feeling more grounded and less overwhelmed. Professionals frequently share that the system gives them language and structure they can rely on when grief does not follow clear timelines.

Books, articles, and resources to support you

Sometimes support does not begin with a conversation. It begins with reading a few words that reflect your experience, or spending quiet time with a practice that helps you feel more present.

The resources here are designed to meet you where you are. You can move at your own pace and return whenever you need.

Books like Living With Grief, Navigating Loss, and From Grief to Peace offer guidance rooted in the Mindfulness and Grief System. They are used by grieving individuals and professionals alike, both as personal support and as tools for group and one-to-one work.

You will also find articles, guided practices, and free tools that address common experiences such as anniversaries, sleeplessness, loss of confidence, and the ongoing impact of grief on daily life.

These resources are here for when reaching out feels like too much, or when you simply want something steady to return to.

About Heather Stang

You do not need someone to fix your grief or rush you toward meaning. You need support that understands loss from the inside and knows how to work with it in real life.

Heather Stang has spent more than two decades supporting people living with grief, trauma, and life-altering change. Her work is grounded in mindfulness based practices that help you stay present with what is happening without being overwhelmed or shut down.

Heather is the author of Navigating Loss, Living With Grief, and From Grief to Peace, and the founder of the Mindfulness Based Grief Support approach. She trains grief professionals internationally and also works directly with people navigating loss, change, and uncertainty in their own lives.

What guides this work is not theory or positivity, but lived experience. The focus is on helping you build the capacity to meet grief as it shows up, moment by moment, with more steadiness, awareness, and choice.

You are not asked to move on, be strong, or make sense of what cannot be explained. You are supported in learning how to live alongside grief in a way that honors what you have lost and what still matters to you.

A home for your grieving heart

Grief does not move in a straight line. It changes over time, and so do the kinds of support that help. You may be here because you are grieving now, because you support others through loss, or because both are true.

This work is meant to be a steady place you can return to as life continues to change. A place that honors your experience, respects your pace, and offers support without asking you to become someone you are not.

You do not need to figure everything out at once. You can begin where you are, pause when you need to, and return when something inside you asks for care again.