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” pain can sometimes cause more harm than healing. That’s why Present Through The Pain—a powerful 2-hour 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 tools to support clients or patients through loss

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

Why This Even Matters?

Grief is isolating. Pregnancy loss is especially so. It often goes unseen, unspoken, and misunderstood—even by those closest to the person experiencing it. Many parents suffering this type of loss have heard phrases like:

“At least you know you can get pregnant.”

“It wasn’t meant to be.”

“Everything happens for a reason.”

Present Through The Pain teaches how to be present, hold space, and respond with empathy when words aren’t enough.

What You’ll Learn:

In this engaging and emotionally intelligent 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 instead

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

✅ Practice “being with” instead of “fixing”

✅ 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.

Delivery Duration: 2 hours

Format: In person

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

Group Size: Ideally 10–40

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

Workshop Outcomes After attending Present Through The Pain, 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, or organizations

Are you ready to create a community where no one has to grieve alone? Whether you're a hospital CARE 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, your loved one, congregants or staff will be better able to care for the grieving instead of complicating their pain.

Grief comes in many forms. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a miscarriage or infertility, the loss of a pet, a major life transition, or the future you imagined....your experience matters, your pain is real and you don’t have to face it alone. At the heart of healing is the ability to feel seen, heard, and supported in your sorrow. All emotions are welcome in our work together including sadness, anger, confusion, numbness, guilt and even moments of relief. This journey is not about "moving on" or "fixing" your grief, it is about honoring your experience and helping you carry it with more compassion.

Grief is deeply personal. There is no timeline, no checklist, and no “right way” to grieve. Many people who are grieving silently struggle with messages they’ve received from others—or internalized themselves—such as:

• “Crying won’t change anything.”

• “Just stay strong and keep going.”

• “There’s no use dwelling on the past.”

• “If I let myself feel it, I’ll fall apart.”

• “Other people have it worse so I shouldn’t complain.”

These statements often come from a place of emotional suppression for survival, not because you are weak. These statements reflect how we were taught to disconnect from pain rather than process it. Truthfully, pushing grief away doesn't make it go away. It only delays the healing and "quietly" deepens the hurt. Ignoring grief doesn’t protect us—it isolates us.

Unacknowledged emotions build beneath the surface, showing up as irritability, anxiety, physical exhaustion, or emotional numbness. In our work together, we gently turn toward what’s been avoided not to stay stuck in sorrow, but to move through it with intention, care, and support.

You're likely:

• Feeling overwhelmed by waves of sadness and longing

• Experiencing anxiety, isolation, or guilt

• Numb or disconnected from yourself and others

• Wondering who you are now or how to rebuild

• Tired of people telling you to "be strong" or "get over it"

What Our Work Together Might Include

• Processing Your Loss at Your Own Pace

• Naming and Validating Complex Emotions

• Exploring the Meaning of the Loss in Your Life Story

• Integrating the Loss While Reconnecting with Yourself

• Identifying What You Need from Others

• Setting Boundaries

• Finding Comfort in Honoring Rituals, Memories, and Values

We'll move at a pace that feels safe to your nervous system because this is not about rushing to feel better but about feeling supported as you navigate the realities and uniqueness of your grief. You deserve a space where your grief is not minimized or pathologized but honored as a reflection of your love, your hopes, your humanity.

Whether you’re newly grieving or still carrying a loss from years ago, it’s never too early—or too late—to seek support. Grieving is a sign that something mattered to you very deeply. It is a natural response to loss, of any kind. Acknowledging grief is a gateway to healing and healing doesn't mean forgetting, it means allowing yourself to be emotionally held as you remember, rebuild, and rediscover life in the midst of loss. You don’t have to do this alone.