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Join with women of similar struggle with thoughts & feelings in grief, stage & stress of 30’s 40’s life, and desire to connect with others while building inner skill & capacity to hold soft acceptance for what happened & grieve while honoring the love you remember & yearn for.
You may feel overwhelmed when the loss comes up. Something reminds you, or the car is quiet for once, and the grief feels huge—scary, a brick wall, and what’s more: you wish it just hadn’t happened. You wish it just hadn’t happened, that things were different. Even if your loss somehow ‘made sense’ (for example with a very painful illness), or even if you are in the swirly land of ambiguous loss (your loved one is alive but not who they were and the relationship is, in some important way, lost), you might still feel this overwhelming “NO!” in response to your grief and grieving.
As a community at Voyager, we get it. We also know from experience that avoiding our grief in some ways caused it to follow us. Some people who delay grief experience panic attacks, some people feel disconnected from those they love most, some people neglect to take care of themselves when they need it most because to feel the grief is to acknowledge something that feels too scary. Yet just by being here, by reading this, you might also notice that you do acknowledge your loss, no matter how inadvertently. This group will help you to build a gentle, process-based skill inside yourself around acceptance of loss & grief. By ‘process-based’ I mean focused on how you are doing and at your pace, in the support and connection of group. You might compare this to a ‘process-based’ movement class where you feel encouraged and fully supported to move at the pace your body tells you to, as compared to an ‘outcome-based’ movement class where you are told to do X number of squats with Y number of weight in Z amount of time. (You might even like that second class more! …but it doesn’t work so well with grief & grieving).
This is group therapy that is equally compassionate/supportive and functional/relevant. This group is open to women in their 30’s & 40’s navigating any loss, including death of a beloved person, perinatal loss of any kind, infertility, diagnosis of a serious illness in self or other, or worsening symptoms/later stage of a serious illness in self or other.
This is a space to turn your attention to your own experience, at least temporarily, to support your life and wellbeing as a whole. Join us to include yourself in your own compassion and your own care as you build a soft acceptance practice within.
In this therapy group, we spend 4 weeks exploring, learning, & practicing:
What is acceptance, & why is it not a synonym for “embracing” or “loving”
What happens when we avoid acceptance, where do we struggle?
What are other ways acceptance can look, that feels more supportive from within?
Grief models beyond the 5 stage model, and how to consider which model works for your grief in an intentional and actionable way
How to build acceptance within and how to support others with acceptance
Nuanced aspects of companioning our own experience, accepting ourselves, as we slowly and gently accept our losses
Time: Saturdays, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location: In person, in our spacious mountain-grandma chic office in North Chesterfield
Address: 9327 Midlothian Turnpike #2G, North Chesterfield VA 23235
Cost: $60 per session
Meets Weekly Starting: Saturday, September 6th, 2025
Ends: Saturday, September 27th, 2025
Begin your registration process by requesting a free, supportive, 20ish minute introductory call.
Sending you a lot of care & hope for soft moments on hard days. Please include yourself in your own care. Connect soon.