“I learned more in the amount of time I was able to participate than I have in a year of therapy”
-Bonnie
“It was the first time I ever felt that someone understood my pain.”
-Candace
Back by popular demand--This event is for ONE date in March. You can’t get rid of the pain of child loss but there are ways to lessen your suffering and we talk about strategies for that. You will be exposed to different strategies, and connect with others who know the same kind of loss. For bereaved parents and step-parents hosted by two bereaved parents. AnneMoss lost her 20-year-old son Charles to Suicide and Karla lost her 9-month-old baby, Theo to a brain tumor. (Bios at the bottom)
Creative Writing Workshop
“Mind Mapping” and how that helps you process your grief. Sign up as a single, or a couple.
We will support you in accessing and expressing your grief, love, and any experiences in this grief journey that you wish or need to write about—maybe you won’t even know what they are until the words flow from pen to paper or from keyboard to screen. This will be a heart-opening, compassionate, creative experience with your broken heart in mind.
Original artwork by Mehmet Sahin Altug from Cool-Colors.com, Cool Colors Gallery, Richmond VA.
Price: $75 for one night.
Pay for ONE 1.5-hour evening (single or couple) with a group of bereaved parents/ step-parents hosted by facilitators Karla Helbert LPC and AnneMoss Rogers.
“For me, one of the most helpful things was hearing from parents who are further along on this journey than I am. Not only were there pearls of wisdom but also lots of validation for feeling exactly as I am and for understanding that I’m going to have those “knock me on my ass” moments forever–and that’s ok.”
-Chris
ABOUT YOUR HOSTS
AnneMoss Rogers is a mental health and suicide education expert, professional speaker, trainer, and consultant. After her 20-year-old son, Charles died by suicide in 2015, Anne Moss chronicled her family’s tragedy in a newspaper article that went viral. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, Diary of a Broken Mind and the best seller, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk with co-writer Dr. Kimberly O’Brien. She has been a TEDx speaker, was featured in the New York Times, Variety Magazine, and was the first non-clinician invited to speak on youth suicide at the National Institute of Mental Health. A UNC-Chapel Hill alumna, Anne Moss currently lives in Richmond, VA. Her surviving son is a filmmaker in LA.
Karla Helbert LPC is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), internationally certified yoga therapist, (C-IAYT), registered yoga teacher (RYT), award-winning author, and a Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider certified through the MISS Foundation, the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Trust and the Center for Loss & Trauma. Counseling and supporting those living with traumatic grief and bereavement is her main focus of work. Karla’s life was forever changed when her son Theo died of a brain tumor at nine months old. She is the author of three books on grief including Yoga for Grief and Loss, The Chakra System in Grief and Trauma, and Finding Your Own Way to Grieve: A Creative Activity Workbook for Kids and Teens on the Autism Spectrum.