These five stories we're about to share from Life After Loss Academy are folks who have
gone through the coursework program.
They attended the live calls with me and they have rebuilt lives after devastating loss.
They have worked through the Five Step grief method, ground release, integrate, establish
and foster.
They've watched the video lessons.
They've participated in weekly coaching.
They've done the exercises on their own time and they have created lives of hope, purpose,
peace and joy that upon entering the program they did not think were possible.
Hi there grief growers and welcome back to grief grower.
Hello.
My name is Shelby for Scythia.
I am a grief coach, a two time soon-to-be-three time author and the founder of Life After Loss
Academy, which is an online program that has helped dozens of grieving people stop feeling
lost, stuck, broken and alone inside the experience of grief and start building lives
that they genuinely love from the lives that lost force them to live.
This includes not only death-related losses because death is not the only thing that changes
your life, but also divorce, break up, major diagnosis and every other major loss or life
transition that changes your life.
Here on the show we believe that grief is not something to get over as society would
have you believe.
It is something that we grow with and alongside for the rest of our lives and that when we
stop treating grief like a problem to be solved and more like an invitation to live our lives
more deeply, we get to build lives that we're proud of that are rich with the memories
that we carry, the struggles that we faced and the preciousness, the every single moment
preciousness of what it is to be alive right here at this time right now.
Once the end of June, I have been walking you step by step through my grief method.
This is the five part framework that I teach inside life after loss academy and week by
week I've been giving you a behind the scenes outline of this structure that I teach inside
life after loss academy.
We started with episode 17 at the end of June all around the ground module which is where
I teach you how to feel safe in a world where loss has taught you anything can happen at
any time for any reason.
So it's all about getting restabilized and reoriented to the world after loss because people say grief
is unstable, is grief is disorienting.
Yes, I agree.
So getting you safe and reoriented in the world is first things first in life after loss.
Then we covered in episode 18 the release module which is how to let go of grief's most
difficult emotions, especially those emotions surrounding who you can no longer be the identities
that lost ripped away from you and the future that you can no longer have.
So grieving the past and the future together and the two lists that will help you with that.
Then we took a break in episode 19 for my interview with Cara Belvin but in episode 20 we
talked about the integrate module which is how to fold loss into your life and begin to
remember positive things about your loss is going forward into the future, especially
if you are grieving a loved one who has died and you want to stay connected to them throughout
the rest of your life.
On episode 21 we did one of my all time favorite topics which is about how grief changes your
friendships with friends, family co-workers, neighbors and how to set boundaries and form
grief honoring relationships with all the people in your life because we do not ever do
grief in a vacuum.
And in last week's episode 22 we covered the foster module which is all about how to create
a lifetime partnership with grief and rebuild a life that you love from the life that
loss forced you to live.
So this five step framework, G-R-I-E-F ground release, integrate, establish and foster is
exactly what I teach step by step in my online course in community life after loss academy.
This week as kind of like the putting a bow on our tour de France of life after loss academy
I want to share five student stories with you because I'll tell you this what I have to
teach you means absolutely nothing if it's not actually helpful for you or for other
griefers who are coming up through these programs who are implementing these tools who are
joining this community.
Even if the tools I had were amazing they don't mean anything.
There is no solidity to them or validation for them if they don't actually work for grieving
people in their lives.
And so to wrap up our coverage of life after loss academy this sort of summer tour I want
to share stories that I have been or inter permission to share by five different students who
have entered life after loss academy and they haven't necessarily graduated because life
after loss academy is one of these things that is meant to be revisited over and over again
as you experience new losses or find out more information about old losses.
So many of these students are still inside the community and life after loss academy but
they have gone all the way through the coursework and experienced real transformations as a part
of using the tools that I teach here and following the grief method to do the work of returning
to life after loss.
They have built lives that they genuinely love from the lives that lost forced them to live.
So if you are thinking about joining life after loss academy and thank you so much to the
people who've joined over the summer we've had so many people use that code grief grower
to get their first month free and life after loss academy and you can still do the same till
August 31st.
You probably know or can kind of get the sense that it is a supportive community for grievous
facing all kinds of losses.
Again we do not just do death.
We do death divorce diagnosis I call them the 3Ds and every other loss that changes your
life but as a grieving person who's kind of like weighing your grief support options it's
really normal to wonder does this really work?
Will this actually work for me?
Will it help me through my unique experience of grief, the life after loss that I am living
because I know as well as you do that healing looks different for everyone because grief
looks different for everyone.
And so these 5 stories we're about to share from life after loss academy are folks who
have gone through the coursework program they attended the live calls with me and they
have rebuilt lives after devastating loss.
They have worked through the 5 step grief method ground release integrate establish and
foster they've watched the video lessons they've participated in weekly coaching they've
done the exercises on their own time and they have created lives of hope, purpose, peace
and joy that upon entering the program they did not think were possible.
While each of them enrolled in life after loss academy with very different pictures of
grief with very different loss circumstances they all build beautiful lives that they love
from the ones lost force them to live.
And that is the core that is the goal of everything I teach inside life after loss academy.
And again before I get into these I want to reiterate that these are shared with permission
these are folks who have said you can openly share my lost story and what I learned and took
away from life after loss academy.
So the first person that I want to start with is Lori who learned how to honor her daughter's
memory while also setting boundaries surrounding her grief and Lori joined life after loss academy
after the tragic suicide of her daughter who was a member of the LGBTQIA+ community which
is a community I am a member of as well.
We've talked about on the show before that I am a queer person being queer is a part of
my grief.
And on top of Lori's grief she endured a crap ton of judgment from her religious and work
communities for her daughter's identity the way that her daughter died and was often told
that her grief was and I don't know if you've heard this before grief grower who was listening
right now too much.
One life after loss academy Lori found a community that honored her loss embraced her big emotions
and gave her the tools to protect her mental health by setting very firm boundaries with
unsupportive people and today Lori practices rituals that celebrate her daughter's life
things that she learned in the grounded integrate modules and channels her pain into
meaningful work as a homeless liaison specializing in LGBTQIA youth.
She says quote it is heart wrenching work but I love it.
And Lori's experience in life after loss academy she summarized this way.
She says I was a mess after my adult child suicide I had completely shut myself off from
everyone my family friends and community.
She'll be listened with compassion and empathy she spoke to each one of our hearts through
each lesson we unpeeled layers of the onion and work to craft our new lives.
If you are hesitating please don't it is a life changing experience where you learn
about yourself and learn to live with grief as a friend.
And Lori is still inside of life after loss academy she posted a picture there a couple
of weeks ago and it is really lovely to see how she continues to grow and honor her daughter
as she continues to live life with grief.
The next student story I want to share with you is named Chris.
Chris is actually therapist and she found support and hope after the death of her nephew.
This again a practicing therapist a social worker was devastated by her 19 year old nephew's
suicide when a side effect of his medication led him to a tragic and irreversible decision.
Chris is a person who has no children of her own and felt very much as if she had lost
a child.
She did she lost a child in her family.
And in grieving her nephew's death Chris was shocked to realize how little grief training
she had received in her career and how unprepared she was to cope with his death.
She actually revealed to me that in her graduate program for getting her masters in social
work she received one week of training about grief and it was lumped in with death and dying.
And for anybody who knows anything about grief and death and dying these are separate categories
of things.
End of life the lead up to death terminal diagnosis illness caregiving all the things
related to that.
You could spend a whole semester or a whole year on and then death, grief, emotional pain,
navigating life after loss.
Again you could spend a whole semester a whole year on that and still in many masters programs
at least in the United States.
Therapist social workers people who work with the public in spaces of mental and emotional
health get one week of training surrounding grief and loss and Chris was devastated to discover
that fellow therapists were judging her for not being able to move on and for being stuck
in her grief.
Inside life after loss academy Chris was able to reframe her loss not as something to get
over which we talk about so much here on grief grower but as something to fold into her
life honoring her nephew every single day.
She also gained compassionate tools to help her own clients navigate grief.
She took tools away from life after loss academy with my permission.
She said I am able to live with grief in a more honest and positive way that I didn't
think was possible before.
The next person I want to introduce you to is Julia and this is one of my all time favorite
stories that has come from a student in life after loss academy.
Julia joined life after loss academy in 2020 which is when I founded it during a huge
whirlwind of grief.
Her mother was in a nursing or an assisted living home and she faced daily shame at work
from managers who had no compassion, no room, no space for her grief.
Inside life after loss academy Julia reclaimed her sense of stability and power through the
ground, module like getting really grounded in who she was in finding safety and orientation
in the world again.
Slowly she began working herself through the program and through the lessons she was able
to report at least she said to the group, "Start to do small and enjoyable things.
She enjoyed putting around the house, indulging in slow mindful tea drinking rituals which
was one of her favorite things to do."
She also through the framework of the established module which we talked about in episode 21
of life after loss academy, setting boundaries with friends, family, co-workers and neighbors.
She summoned the strength she needed to ask for what she needed at work and when she couldn't
get it left that hostile to grief workplace and found a new job at a tea shop doing a thing.
She loved drinking some tea, selling some tea with two widows who welcomed her grief and
shared their own experience with loss.
She literally relocated herself from a grief shaming and grief averse environment to one
that openly welcomed her grief as a part of the gig, as a part of the job.
And she wrote in her review for life after loss academy quote, "This course was amazing.
With so many unknowns in 2020 it provided stability.
The journaling prompts were helpful in exploring my own experiences and in realizing how far
I have come and what I can do.
I've taken my power back in so many facets.
Grief is a part of who I am.
Acknowledging and welcoming all aspects of grief into my life have made me more comfortable
with vulnerability, accepting who I am now and who I am becoming.
And this is just, again, I get to talk to you about her story because it is possible to
build a life that is good from the really crappy shitty one that life forced you to live.
She was not, no one generally signs up for a life of loss.
We do not want these terrible awful things to happen to us.
We do not want one parent who have died to be caregiving for another who is in a nursing
home that is inaccessible in the midst of a COVID pandemic.
How on earth do you rebuild from that?
You start by feeling safe or oriented in the world again.
You restabilize.
You start to figure out life's difficult emotions where they can go where you can put them,
how you can begin to process them.
You release them.
You begin folding loss and reminders of your loved ones into your life.
You establish boundaries with people who cannot honor your grief and welcome relationships
that can.
And you begin to seek grief as a lifetime partnership, a lifetime companionship, a lifetime
roommate that you're stuck with, yes, but that you can communicate with and build a life
together as opposed to one where you're constantly fighting or trying to get rid of the thing.
And that is exactly what Julia did inside life after loss academy.
And I just freaking love her story.
And last I checked, she is still at that T-shop and still enjoying puttering around the house
even as her mother eventually declined and died.
And she is still talking about how what she learned in life after loss academy has changed
her life.
Okay.
So, the next student I want to introduce you to is Tammy.
And she was not facing a death loss when she joined my laughter loss academy.
I always include her story because often times the majority of the time, I'd say 80 to 90
percent of students in my laughter loss academy are joining because someone has died.
Whether a loved one or a, as I once heard it said, a less than loved one.
So when you have a complicated relationship with his died, that is often the number one
reason people join my laughter loss academies.
The number one reason people find my work because people in our society think death and then
they think grief, grief equals death, death equals grief.
But Tammy joined life after loss academy after grieving a divorce and an empty nest.
She saw from the work that I did that life after loss academy was not just all about death.
That's why it's called life after loss academy, not life after death academy because there
are so many other things that change our lives in addition to the death of a person.
And so she's like, this is a big transition I'm going through.
I feel disoriented.
I feel destabilized.
I feel like my life is very much empty and I don't know where to go from here.
Those are very similar feelings to losing someone to death even if the loss experience is the
same.
And she came in overwhelmed by just a great sense of loneliness from full house with a, with
a partner and children to divorce and empty nest.
And so she poured herself into the course she showed up for every single call we did together.
She watched every single lesson and she completed every single journaling assignment or list
making assignment or visualization assignment or calendar making assignment.
By her end of the time in the course by the time she reached the last lesson, Tammy discovered
that grief was not her enemy, but a companion that was helping her navigate the loneliness
of a major transition.
And in her review, she said, this course was more than I could ever have imagined through
Shelby's vulnerability and transparency and sharing about her own losses as well as the
sharing of the students.
I recognize that grief is not my enemy, but a friend that invites me to take a deep
dive into my heart and soul.
The exercises and homework that Shelby has so creatively crafted prompted me to examine
the depth of my grief and embrace what grief was trying to show me and teach me.
I seek grief differently now, not as my enemy, but as my friend.
Thank you Shelby for giving me permission to grieve.
It has been a sacred and holy journey for me, one that has helped put this broken heart
back together.
And I just love this story because it shows that even non-death losses can follow this
framework, GRIEF, ground, release, integrate, establish, and foster, to return to life after
devastating loss, to come from this place where you feel empty, powerless, disconnected from
yourself, super uber lonely, and to join a community of grieving people who get it, say,
I am here right now or I have recently been where you are, and to go through these tools
and to follow these steps and this framework together, and say, ah, feeling destabilized,
go to ground, feeling like you're navigating something weird with a neighbor, go to the
established module to have this shared language, it really helps you feel like you take what
is broken and to mend it together, possibly in a new way, possibly in a way that it's never
been mended before, but in a way that helps you again seek grief not as a tormentor or
a tyrant or a dictator or the thing that has ruined your life, and instead as something
that comes along for the ride, as you figure out how to fold all of the losses of your life
into the larger picture of your life.
The last student I want to introduce you to is Kim, a very dear friend who also lives here
in Illinois.
She joined life after loss academy after five years of back to back to back losses.
I recently did a podcast episode with Tyler Federer about cumulative grief, grief that
builds and grows.
You might know it as grief overload, but when you experience multiple losses in a short
period of time, this was Kim's real life.
She had lost a job that she held for many years.
She lost a tight-knit religious community that was core to her identity.
She lost her health in the form of a grueling cancer diagnosis and treatment, and years
before this five-year span of bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
She had also lost both parents who had died.
And so she had not only experienced loss in her earlier years, but had also in adulthood
in her early 50s, say late 40s, early 50s, experienced five back to back years of.
I am being fired from my job.
I have lost my church community, and I have gotten a cancer diagnosis and received treatment
for that.
I have been deeply changed.
She described herself when she joined the course as "not belonging anywhere."
And feeling as if I surrender to the pain and the overwhelm of grief, I will be destroyed.
What little is left of me will go poof and be gone.
Inside life after loss academy, she found a supportive community of other people who were
grieving and the language that she needed to surrender, but not be swallowed by, and that's
very key, surrender, but not go completely under by her grief.
Learning to see grief as part of herself helped her reconstruct her identity, sort of from
the ground up, inform a new and deeper relationship with God and the people in her life, and using
what she learned in life after loss academy, she said yes to a new job where she feels valued
and felt brave enough, eventually, to try out sort of experiment with many different religious
communities until she found a new one where she feels as if she belongs.
And her comment that she left in the life after loss academy community is my favorite.
In all of my years of teaching this work, she said, "I feel like I have come home to myself."
And that is such a profound thing for me as a grief coach to receive, but also for you
as someone who is considering joining life after loss academy to hear.
Because one of the things I say when I talk about life after loss academy is that unlike
other educational courses or things you can buy online, like success, quote unquote success
in life after loss academy, cannot be measured in dollars.
A lot of online courses will teach you how to, you know, "Here's how to make an extra
$30,000 a year," or "Here's how to grow your Instagram following by 800,000 in 10 weeks,"
whatever the case may be, but whatever the promises that they're selling, it's all about numbers,
it's all about growth, it's all about scaling up and building bigger.
That's not what we do inside of life after loss academy.
Life after loss academy success cannot be measured in dollars or numbers.
It is measured in feelings.
And so to receive the one sentence, someone saying, "I feel like I have come home to myself
as a gift, as a statement of truth from a student who is in this course is literally the most
validating and profound thing I as a coach can receive."
It says, "These tools are helping.
I feel seen.
I feel heard.
I feel understood.
I feel like it's possible to move forward from this.
And I know who I am amidst all of it.
And what a gift that is to receive when you are in the midst of, at least in Kim's case,
the five darkest years of your life."
So before we say goodbye today, I want to get into some common questions I get about life
after loss academy.
So if you were like, "I've been listening to all five of these past episodes.
I have now heard these testimonials from five students inside life after loss academy.
I didn't mean to do that five and five, but here we are.
I want to answer some common questions I get about the course.
And these are posted on the page for life after loss academy on my site.
You can read them for yourself if you want.
But I'll cover them again here just in case you're on the fence about joining or if this
answers a question that's lurking somewhere in your brain.
So first one is, "I'm grieving a loss other than death.
Is life after loss academy for me?
If you haven't heard from these testimonials, yes.
Life after loss academy acknowledges that grief includes both death and non-death losses.
Again, why it's called life after loss academy instead of life after death academy?"
And past students have followed the life after loss academy framework to grieve divorce
and break up, major diagnosis and thinking things like cancer, chronic illness, things
that change your life.
Estrangement from friends and family, that's a big one we talk about in life after loss academy,
especially in our political climate right now.
We also talk about grieving separation from religious community, pet loss, financial loss,
geographic move, or a symbolic loss of home.
Notice that I consider felt losses such as a loss of identity, innocence, safety, creativity,
or a connection to the divine, whether that's God or something else for you.
We grieve all of these things and more inside life after loss academy.
And a lot of times we named griefs that we didn't even know we were carrying.
One of my favorite things to do inside life after loss academy when we do weekly coaching
is say, "Oh, isn't that interesting how you phrase that perhaps you're grieving this?"
And we were like, "Oh, I never considered I could grieve that before."
And then we go through the whole process, how do we go through the ground?
We'll enter the release, module, the integrate, establish, and foster module with the grief
of this in mind.
And it's very, very profound to be able to wrap language around that.
Another common question I get for life after loss academy is, "What if my grief is fresh?"
Or, "What if it happened a really long time ago?"
And what I will say is that past students in life after loss academy have enrolled in current
students are enrolling at timeframes ranging from just a few months after a loss to years
and even decades down the road.
No matter how long it's been since your losses, life after loss academy's framework is designed
to help you reorient to the world and then eventually form a lifetime relationship with grief.
I often say it is not oriented to time, it is oriented towards rebuilding.
And so I have students in life after loss academy whose losses occurred three, four months ago.
And I also have people in life after loss academy who experienced losses 20, 30 years ago and
are just now recognizing, "I never really rebuilt my life after that."
I am living a life.
I have tried my best to quote unquote get back to normal, but I'm not really loving this life
or I don't feel like I fully grieved.
This loss or new information came up about that loss or a new loss has happened.
And so that old loss is activated and I'm discovering I never really learned how to cope
with grief, how to build a good life with grief.
And so that's what we do inside life after loss academy.
It's not a course for, "Here's how to survive the first year after a loss."
But here's how to rebuild after any devastation that enters your vicinity.
Okay, next question.
Can I join from anywhere?
Yes, life after loss academy is available to students all over the world.
Current students that are enrolled are located predominantly in the US, UK and Canada.
We do also have students in Australia, New Zealand and the Czech Republic.
All that's required is that you have a stable connection to the internet to join life
after loss academy.
And the asterisk that I always put by this is, "Please know that I can only speak English.
I am unfortunately not bilingual or multi-lingual at any capacity."
So in order to understand the lessons, the video lessons, the things I write, the journaling
exercises, there's something called the C-E-F-R scale and it's like an international
scale for understanding language.
Having a B-2 or above on that language scale, English language proficiency is necessary
to join the course because I am not capable of offering the teachings in another language
besides English.
If you have translation software on your computer that may be helpful to you, but especially because
there are so many specific words for grief in the English language and I'm often differentiating
between the two or like building metaphors from things.
The biggest thing that's required is you need to have some sort of secondary or even tertiary
level of proficiency in English to be able to join the course.
But yes, as long as you understand English, you can join from anywhere as long as you have
an internet connection.
Next question I get.
One of the live calls.
Weekly group coaching takes place every week right now.
It's on Mondays.
It kind of varies based on, I have a part-time job in addition to the great work that I do.
This is not my only life as of right now.
I'm hoping for that to change some time in the future, but at the moment right now it happens
on Mondays and every week we alternate between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. central time.
That's where I am located in Chicago.
And this is exactly to accommodate students worldwide.
We have students joining from all over the world.
And a.m. tends to work better for people in the UK and Europe.
And 6 p.m. tends to work better for people in the United States, Canada, who may be coming
home from work and that's the time that they have to join the calls.
And this schedule is always pinned to the top of the Deep Dive calendar page inside the
course.
And if you can't make the calls live, I always invite you to leave your question in the weekly
questions post.
And I can answer it during the live call.
So there is a place to submit questions in advance every single week.
So if you're like, I can't make it, but I have a question about this lesson or this
grief milestone is coming up.
Can you talk more about this?
And then as soon as the call is over, the replay is available immediately and forever.
So you can watch it at your convenience.
And the cool thing is whenever you join Life After Laws Academy, you can access to the
library of Deep Dive Replays.
And so you can go back and watch replays from before you were even a student in Life After
Laws Academy.
So you get hours and hours and hours of just listening to me answering people's questions
about Life After Laws.
And you join the course.
It doesn't just start.
The library doesn't just include things from when you were a student and beyond.
It includes everything that I've ever answered about Life After Laws.
So you can search for things or browse around and see this person is grieving a friendship.
I want to know more about that.
You can absolutely go back and watch those replays to learn more about what I have told
people in the past.
And then of course, you're always welcome to ask your own question.
Okay.
This is an interesting question.
But I think a lot of people, especially grieving people, because we are so oriented
to time of like it's been X months since they've died or X years since they've died.
And a lot of people in our society want to focus on things like productivity or momentum
or being motivated.
They want to know how long does it take to complete the course.
And I always have to offer the caveat that just like grief, completing, heavy air quotes,
completing, Life After Laws has no timeline.
The goal is to build a lifetime partnership with grief and that's never really done.
It's done when you're dead.
Sorry to put it but link, but it's done when you're dead.
We stop living a life with grief when we die.
So I will say that your experience in Life After Laws Academy depends on what other tools
and practices you've used to navigate grief thus far.
It also depends on how deeply you engage with the homework and the live calls, how much
you're able to hold and focus attention because especially if you're early on in grief
or have experienced multiple back to back losses.
Grief Brain is a very real thing.
But that being said, most students start feeling better after completing the ground module.
That very first one, it's a series of about six to ten video lessons.
And most students finish the course anywhere between two and ten months.
And so generally I say like less than a year.
I say give us, give us a year to see how you go, to see how the lessons resonate with you,
to be with us through a year of your milestones, holidays, big events in your life potentially
finding out new information about old losses or grieving old losses again or grieving new
losses potentially.
Give us about a year and just see how you go.
And of course you are in charge of your membership, your student access to life after loss academy.
So if it doesn't work for you, you can cancel it anytime.
There's no pressure to stay in the course.
If you feel it's not working for you, if it people join and say, wow, there's so much here,
there's so much to learn, there's so much to watch.
That, and I am deep in the weeds of grief logistics, as we've called in previous podcast
episode, Sadman, the sad administration of life after loss, that I just don't have the
brain space right now to even attend a deep dive call or even to watch a lesson.
So I'm going to cancel my membership and join it a later time, which they've done.
And I have people who as well who have been students in life after loss academy four or
five years, I founded this in 2020 and it's still going now in 2025.
And so for people who are in the course for that long, staying connected to the community
of grieving people has been so helpful for them grieving with us through milestones, through
it's been 10 years now.
Here's a new thing I learned about grief.
I keep seeing reminders of them.
I have dreams about them like these things keep happening.
And life after loss and it's not because we're bad at grief, it's because we are living
life with grief all the time.
When loss enters our lives, it never leaves.
It doesn't leave.
And so being a member of the community forever is something that resonates for them.
So you get to choose sort of your own adventure, what path you'd like to take.
Most people, if you're pretty aggressive about completing the lessons, if you have the
capacity to pay a lot of attention and focus a lot and kind of work through things like
you would sort of an online school, you can complete it in about two months.
But most grieving people will complete the coursework anywhere from six to ten if that gives you
a good idea of what to expect.
And that's just because life be life and life is life.
Alongside everything else you're trying to do and one of those things includes grieving.
I will say that keep in mind your goal in life after loss academy is not to finish, but to
build a lifetime partnership with grief.
And it is designed to revisit again and again and again and again.
So again, as new milestones occur, if you want to grieve through the holidays with us,
if you want to celebrate things that are happening in your grief that you feel like your friends,
family, members, co-workers, neighbors, they just wouldn't get it.
Life after loss academy becomes a place where you can put all of that.
It becomes for many grieving people, especially early on in loss when a lot of friends and family
and other folks have drifted away or gone back to their normal lives, heavy air quotes on
that.
It becomes a place where your grief can live.
And that's a really crucial thing to have, especially if you do not feel you have a lot
of supports in the early days or even in the later days of life after loss.
The thing I want to invite you to as we're kind of wrapping up this series on life after
loss academy is that this is always open to you.
This is not a grief support program that's like a six week thing and then you're kicked
out or it's like a ten week thing and you have these exercises and you have this tiny cohort
and then you're done and you never see each other again.
These five testimonials, these student stories from life after loss academy, illustrate the
variety of losses you can have joining life after loss academy.
The outline of how the grief method framework can support you and potentially what sort
of transformation is possible for you if life after loss academy is something that's
been calling to you as we've done these podcast episodes through the summer.
You can leave you feeling lost, broken, struggling, empty, lonely without purpose.
But with these practical tools, these little step by step video lessons and the consistent
support of a community coaching with me, it is possible to create a life that both honors
your pain and also pursues and embraces when they arrive hope and joy.
So if you are a person who is ready to do that rebuilding after devastating loss, if you
have the capacity, if you have the interest, if you even are like this might be something
that's interesting to me, whether you're grieving a death divorce breakup major diagnosis
or other significant grief event, I am here and life after loss academy is here to guide
you every single step of the way.
You can still use that code, grief grower, to join us for free for one month and life after
loss academy until August 31st and you can choose whatever payment plan resonates for
you and then enter grief grower and you will get your first month absolutely free and again,
you're in charge of your membership.
So if you decide after one month it's not for you, you can cancel and you will not get charged
anything because I am not, I tell people all the time, I'm not in the business of holding
your money hostage.
It's bad karma first of all.
Second of all, like it's just not, it's not a way to operate a business or exist in a
world with integrity.
And so what I want for you is to be able to try this on sort of like I often call it the
dressing room of grief, try on life after loss academy is a support tool for you.
You could try on therapy, you could try on grief support, you could try on seeing a medium,
you could try on going on a grief vacation, you could try on exercising for your grief,
you could try on all kinds of things to help with grief.
See if it fits, see if it feels good to your body, heart, mind, spirit, soul and if it
doesn't, you are more than welcome to cancel and if it does, I am so delighted to welcome
and honor your presence in life after loss academy and look forward to coaching you through
deep dive sessions every single week and also to guiding you 24/7 through a library at your
fingertips of tools that you can use grounding tools, releasing tools, integrating tools,
establishing tools, fostering tools through the grief framework in this course and community.
Thank you so much for spending time with me this summer if we have gone the full gamut of
life after loss academy and I'm always so delighted to bring more episodes of grief grower your way.
That's all for this episode of grief grower. Thank you so much for joining me today.
If you're looking for grief support beyond the show, you can find free workshops, blog articles
and my signature what's your grief support style quiz at shopweefersithia.com/links.
And if you'd like to get support from me for your unique loss experience, you can join us in
life after loss academy. As a student, I'll walk you through my five step grief framework for
rebuilding life after loss and you can get live coaching from me every single week to answer your
questions and honor your milestones. Replays are always available if you can't attend life.
It's just $33 a month to join or $22 a month if you're marginalized or financially stressed
griefer, a new pink cancel at any time. Now through August 31st take advantage of getting one
month free of life after loss academy with the code grief grower all one word. You can find a link
to do that in the show notes. Griefer was hosted by me, Shelby Fersithia, and the theme music is
composed by Addy Goldstein. Until next time, I see you, I am so proud of you and the work that you're
doing in the world and I love you. Because even through grief, we are growing.