Grief and death care professionals spend their days helping others pause, feel, breathe, remember, and make meaning. This article explores why you need your own grief practice too, not as another task on your list, but as an ethical and embodied way to stay human, grounded, and compassionate in the work.
Learning how to run a grief group means understanding that feelings need space, structure, and support. A safe space to share matters, but without a clear container, people may leave feeling more overwhelmed than held. In this article, I share 17 practical tips for leading grief groups with compassion, boundaries, and care.
If you are a mindfulness practitioner who feels called to support grieving people, this article will help you understand why grief needs a different approach, what trauma-sensitive mindfulness looks like in this context, and how my training supports practitioners with practical tools, pacing, and ethical clarity.
Can you become a grief coach without a degree? In many cases, yes. But grief work still requires training, clear boundaries, trauma sensitivity, and ethical support skills. This article explores what you do need if you want to support grieving people well, stay within your scope of practice, and approach the work with humility and care.
What skills actually matter in grief coaching? This article explores the essential skills grief coaches need, including deep listening, grounded presence, practical support, ethical judgment, and the ability to stay with pain without rushing to fix it. It is written for helping professionals who want to support grieving people with more clarity, humility, and care.
Not all grief coach training programs are created equal. If you are a therapist, chaplain, doula, yoga therapist, meditation teacher, or coach looking for grief-specific training, this guide will help you understand what to look for, which red flags to avoid, and how to choose a program that is practical, ethical, and grounded in the realities of loss.
While grief is like a roller coaster, and rarely feels “normal,” most of us have the natural capacity to make it to the other side. Along the journey we will feel a myriad of uncomfortable, intrusive and most of all unwelcome sensations. The pain we feel as a result of losing someone we love seems unfair, but it is natural, and while the loss itself is permanent, the intensity of pain will subside.