Grief is universal—but support isn't always instinctual. When someone we care about is grieving, especially after a heartbreaking loss like miscarriage or stillbirth, we often feel unsure of what to say or do. Well-meaning words can fall flat, silence can feel like abandonment and the desire to “fix” their pain can cause more harm than healing. That’s why this workshop was designed to help you show up with compassion, confidence, and care for those walking through grief.

Who This Workshop Is For?

This experience is designed for anyone who wants to offer meaningful support but isn’t sure how. We welcome:

• Family members and friends wanting to better support a grieving loved one

• Churches and spiritual communities seeking to provide compassionate, informed pastoral care

• Workplaces and companies aiming to build a grief-informed, inclusive, and human-centered culture

• Nonprofits and support organizations that work with vulnerable or grieving populations

• Healthcare and helping professionals seeking to provide support through loss to their patients

Whether the grief is fresh or longstanding, this workshop equips attendees to move beyond avoidance or awkwardness toward presence and connection.

Why This Even Matters?

Grief is isolating. Pregnancy loss is especially so! It is often unspoken, minimized or misunderstood—even by those closest to the person experiencing it. Many parents suffering this type of loss have heard phrases that sting and complicate their healing. When Words Fall Short teaches how to be present, hold space, and respond with empathy when words are hard to find.

What You’ll Learn:

In this engaging and experiential workshop, participants will:

✅ Understand what grief, especially after pregnancy loss, can feel like emotionally, physically, and relationally

✅ Learn the common missteps and myths about grief support and what to do

✅ Explore supportive language and behaviors that bring comfort instead of confusion and additional pain

✅ Practice supportive skills

✅ Build emotional literacy and self-awareness for supporting others through loss

✅ Receive tools and handouts that can be used long after the workshop ends

This is not a lecture. It’s a guided, interactive experience that encourages reflection, connection, and growth to address and close the grief gap in pregnancy loss support.

Delivery Duration: 2 hours

Format: In person

Includes: Interactive discussion, reflection exercises, grief-informed communication tools, take-home guide

Group Size: Minimum 10, Maximum 30

Facilitated by: A licensed mental health professional with lived experience and clinical expertise in grief and pregnancy loss

Workshop Outcomes After attending When Words Fall Short, you will be more equipped to:

• Respond compassionately when someone you care about is hurting

• Normalize the emotional complexity of grief

• Reduce the fear of “getting it wrong”

• Show up consistently and meaningfully over time

• Create a culture of care within families, communities, workplaces and organizations

Are you ready to create a community where no one has to grieve alone? Whether you're a hospital team member, church leader, HR director, nonprofit program manager, or simply a person who wants to show up better for those you love—this workshop is no doubt for you! Grief is hard and many times weird but being a trusted partner through the journey, you will be better able to care for the grieving instead of unintentionally inflicting additional pain while trying to be helpful.

The problem isn't YOU! Most of us were never really taught how to deal with emotions. We were told to “calm down,” “toughen up,” or “stay positive.” But the truth is, emotions are at the core of every human experience and learning how to understand and work with them (not against them) is one of the most powerful things you can do for your mental health. Think of emotions as an internal GPS. They tell you when things are going well and when something needs attention.

Emotional fluency means being able to identify what you’re feeling, understand where it’s coming from, and respond in a way that’s helpful rather than reactive or avoidant. It’s like learning a language, once you can “speak emotion,” you can better understand yourself and others. Why does this matter? Because unprocessed emotions don’t just disappear. They show up in anxiety, irritability, depression, chronic stress, trouble in relationships, or even physical symptoms like fatigue and tension. When you ignore emotions, they find other ways to be heard.

Emotion coaching helps you tune in instead of pushing away. It teaches you to recognize what you're feeling, why it's there, and what to do with it. That kind of awareness builds resilience. You feel more in control not because you're shutting emotions down, but because you know how to move through them in a healthy way.

Your emotions aren't the enemy, they're your unrecognized superpower! This year you can commit to finally learning their language! It’s not about controlling your emotions, it’s about understanding them so you can use that understanding to create lasting change. In short, emotional fluency isn’t just about “feeling your feelings”—it’s about improving your overall mental health by making emotions your ally instead of your enemy. And this alone can change everything in your inner world first and then in the outer world that you show up in relationship with others.

An 8-week immersive experience, or 3 day intensive, to decode your emotional language so that they stop running the show! You’ve tried ignoring your emotions and you’ve tried ‘fixing’ them so what if you just needed to understand them instead? This isn’t a talk therapy circle, The Emotion Decoding Lab is a map of your inner world: naming the unnamed to articulate why you feel "off."

Here's how we'll journey together:
Week 1: Emotions as Data
Week 2: Honoring and Melting Defenses
Week 3: Working with Anxiety
Week 4: Actions versus Flaws
Week 5: Getting Curious about Sadness
Week 6: Anger as the Advocate
Week 7: Emotional Humility
Week 8: Openhearted Connection

This group is for you if:

• You're tired of being hijacked by reactions you don't understand

• You sense there's wisdom in your emotions but can't access it

• You're ready to move beyond managing symptoms to true emotional fluency