As we travel through time as grieving mothers, we may wonder how to show up for ourselves as we’re tending to our grief and trauma.
As a certified grief educator and grief movement guide who comes to this journey with 25 years’ experience facilitating creative groups, as a writer, as a gardener, as someone who cares deeply about finding peace and calm each day, I’m offering a series of workshops for moms that will encourage us to explore, express and enrich our lives through movement, creative writing and supportive seasonal activities, inspired by nature.
In this healing space, I’ll invite us to use trauma informed somatic movement, rooted in body, breath and sound, to soften and ground our awareness. I’ll offer creative writing prompts to help us to express our feelings. I’ll give Reiki – a technique that uses energy to reduce stress and anxiety and encourages relaxation in the receiver – to help us to surrender into the quiet stillness of our inner strength. I’ll lead a meditation to connect with the well of enduring light that glows within each of us, as we evolve on our path towards healing. And I’ll ask us to explore seasonally inspired nature-based activities to nourish our continuing bonds with our children. Each workshop will ease our bodies, minds and spirits.
These workshops are free with a suggested donation to my child’s nonprofit, encouraged.
Please stay tuned for the 2025 workshop schedule.
If you have a child or children in spirit, if your heart is hurting, if your mind is racing, if your body bears the pain of loss: Please join us in this oasis find comfort, community and a shared appreciation for nature’s capacity for hope, helpfulness and healing.
Signing up for Grief Movement is simple!
Rachael serves in memory of her daughter, and instead of receiving payments, she asks participants to make a donation to to Sexual Assault Support Services, an organization her daughter volunteered for, and that has established two full-time positions focused on preventing sexual assault and supporting survivors in Middle and High Schools, in her daughter’s name.
It’s easy to donate and sign up!
1) Make a donation to Sexual Assault Support Services. (Suggested donation is $20-50 per workshop – And your donation is 100% tax-deductible.)
2) Email a copy of the donation receipt to info@griefmoms.com
3) Rachael will send you a confirmation with a link to the Zoom invitation for the workshop
About Rachael
- 25+ years facilitating creative movement and creative writing classes
- Professional playwright and theatre artist
- Certified Grief Educator
- Certified Grief Movement Guide
- Certified Level One and Level Two Reiki Practitioner
Rachael brings 25+ years of experience to leading movement classes for all ages and abilities. Inspired by her own little girl, Rachael founded a nonprofit in 2004, to provide movement experiences for children with disabilities, and those at-risk for abuse and neglect. She pioneered trauma-informed programs for children that have been replicated in settings for preschoolers, elementary schools, and teen parent programs across the country. Since losing her daughter to suicide in 2022, Rachael has received her Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Level One and Level Two Certification, her Grief Movement Guide Certification from Paul Denniston founder of Grief Yoga, and she received her Grief Educator Certification from death, dying and grieving expert, David Kessler.
While grief is universal, these workshops offer community for moms with kids in spirit.
All movements are adaptable for all ages and abilities.
All proceeds from this program will be donated to Sexual Assault Support Services, an organization that Rachael’s daughter volunteered for many years.
While grief is universal, this is a community for bereaved mothers.
