Center For Loss, Grief, Hope & Healing

07/23/2025

🌿 The Quiet Work: The Grieving Brain, The Grieving Body

A workshop for grieving women

🗓 Wednesday, August 21

Wednesday?! Yes - grief doesn't always wait for the weekend! Take a mid-week break and care for you!

🕘 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Sky Pond, Apex, NC

Grief lives in the body.
It shows up in your breath.
In your sleep.
In your ability to focus, to feel, to be present in your own skin.

Whether you’re grieving a death, a relationship, a role, your health or the life you thought you’d have — your grief is welcome here.

Join us in the healing hands of nature for the first session in our workshop series, The Quiet Work.

This half-day workshop is an invitation to pause and tend to that grief — with breath, gentle movement, and education about how grief and trauma impact both brain and body.

You’ll learn. You’ll move. You’ll write. You’ll rest. And in the final hour, you’ll be held in quiet reflection and deep nervous system restoration through yoga nidra. This practice is gentle and accessible — no experience required.

This is not group therapy. This is The Quiet Work — a space to gently reconnect with yourself in the presence of grief.

🌬 Space is limited.
🧘‍♀️ Register now - link is in the comments!
https://wix.to/3YpqQXv

07/19/2025

We're Hosting Another Permission to Grieve!

🌿 Our first workshop filled fast — and the experience was unforgettable!

Grief was honored. Bodies exhaled. And women asked, “Will there be more?”

✨ Permission to Grieve
A full-day workshop for women
🗓 Sunday, September 28
⏰ 9:30 AM–5:30 PM
📍 Sky Pond · Apex, NC

This day is a sacred pause. A space to learn, a place to be held, to move gently and to feel what’s been quietly carried.

Some thoughts our guest shared with us from our first Permission to Grieve:

“This was the first time I allowed myself to feel.”
“I walked in feeling hopeless. I left knowing I can do this.”
“I didn’t know it was possible to befriend my grief.”

If you're grieving — a death, the loss of a relationship, a life that changed without your permission — this is your day.

We’ll gather in nature and move through:
🧘‍♀️ Grief-informed movement
🫶 Gentle rest + ritual
🌀 Nervous system support
🧠 We’ll learn about the grieving brain and the grieving body
🎵 A closing sound bath by
🥣 Nourishment by the incredible Chef Kelly

✨ Space is limited to 10 women.
✨ Early registration: $185 through Sept 12.

This isn’t just a day off.
It’s a day in — into your body, your breath, your grief, and your healing.

🫶 You have permission to grieve.

💛 More to come!
Stay tuned for a series of intimate half-day workshops this fall —
And save the date for our next full-day retreat:
🗓 Sunday, October 26 – Permission to Heal
Registration opens soon.

https://wix.to/kXSGobr

07/15/2025

Our workshop, Permission to Grieve, was a beautifully healing day for 10 amazing women! Our day was filled with restorative yoga, meditative walks around the pond, sharing, learning, a powerful release ritual, an amazing sound healing experience, incredible food and a community that allowed for witnessing, honoring and releasing of pain and sorrow in ways that were both freeing and healing. Words once silenced, were spoken. Tears tightly held within, finally released. Restorative rest, finally received. This amazing group gave themselves permission to grieve, to allow and to release - and each of them left knowing they are not alone and their grief, while it will remain a powerful force, is no longer an enemy. We are honored to have partnered with and extend our deepest gratitude for skypondnc for offering this beautiful space and elody.soundhealing for bringing her incredible gift of sound healing
to us! Our next workshop will be September 28, and registration will open soon!

06/25/2025

Our “Permission to Grieve” workshop at Sky Pond is officially SOLD OUT!!

Ten incredible women are gathering to do the brave work of honoring what has been lost, listening deeply to what is being carried, and learning how to release — with gentleness, with reverence, and with the support of one another.

This isn’t a day of fixing.
It’s a day of softening.
Of remembering.
Of grieving in community — and learning to be with all that still lives.

I’m so honored to hold this space,
and so grateful for every woman who felt the pull and said yes.

💚 More offerings are coming — for those who are seeking and ready. Stay close.

06/19/2025

🌸 We already have some incredible women signed up for Permission to Grieve — and we couldn’t be more honored!

Nature, breath, movement and sound healing - this incredible workshop at the beautiful Sky Pond in Apex, is shaping up to be something truly special! A beautiful day of support and learning, and an opportunity to honor, befriend and release your grief awaits you!

Here’s what this one intentional day can offer:
✨ A new awareness of how grief lives in your body and spirit
✨ A gentle release of what’s been weighing so heavily
✨ A deeper connection to your authentic self
✨ A sense of meaning where there’s been only sorrow

Sunday, July 13 at Sky Pond in Apex, NC.
💗 Say YES to a day of true self-care!

Join Us for an Immersive Day Inward

06/16/2025

✨Join Us for A One Day Grief Workshop for Women at Sky Pond, Apex, NC

Sunday July 13th, 10am - 5pm at Sky Pond in Apex, NC

Gather with us for a day unlike any other — designed for women walking with grief. A one-of-a-kind day to go inward.

To soften the edges. To feel what’s been waiting. To tend to the quiet ache beneath it all.

Grief asks for intentional space — a container to be seen, felt, and honored. This workshop offers that space: a balance of community and solitude, rest and reflection. Learning and integration. You need a day for you. One intentional day can make a lifetime of difference.

Join Us for an Immersive Day Inward

06/04/2025

“I don’t know if I’m doing this right.”
“I think I’m just avoiding.”

I hear this all the time in grief work. And I want to say clearly: Stepping back doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong.

Sometimes, stepping away is grief work.

What we often label as “avoidance” is sometimes something else entirely: wisdom. It’s your body finding breath, your system seeking safety. It’s pacing—so you can feel, and still function.

In grief, you’re allowed to go back and forth. To hold the sorrow and the sunlight. To sit with the ache, and still wash the dishes.

This isn’t avoidance. It’s survival. And sometimes, it’s sacred.

💔 If you’ve been judging yourself for “not doing grief right,” this one’s for you:

👉 Read: When Stepping Away Is Grief Work
How pacing, presence, and permission create space to heal

Read more about it here: https://wix.to/vdDd0TN