BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:81@mentalhealthawarenesseducation.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T190000 DTSTAMP:20240312T193354Z URL:https://mentalhealthawarenesseducation.com/events/virtual-coping-strat egies-for-grief-and-loss-march-19/ SUMMARY:Virtual Coping Strategies for Grief and Loss\, March 19\, iCal DESCRIPTION:"I learned more in the amount of time I was able to participate than I have in a year of therapy"\n-Bonnie\n"It was the first time I ever felt that someone understood my pain."\n-Candace\n\nBack by popular deman d--This event is for ONE date in March. You can't get rid of the pain of c hild loss but there are ways to lessen your suffering and we talk about st rategies for that. You will be exposed to different strategies\, and conne ct with others who know the same kind of loss. For bereaved parents and st ep-parents hosted by two bereaved parents. AnneMoss lost her 20-year-old s on Charles to Suicide and Karla lost her 9-month-old baby\, Theo to a brai n tumor. (Bios at the bottom)\nCreative Writing Workshop\n"Mind Mapping" a nd how that helps you process your grief. Sign up as a single\, or a coupl e.\n\nWe will support you in accessing and expressing your grief\, love\, and any experiences in this grief journey that you wish or need to write a bout—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\, c ompassionate\, creative experience with your broken heart in mind.\n\nOrig inal artwork by Mehmet Sahin Altug from Cool-Colors.com\, Cool Colors Gall ery\, Richmond VA.\n\nPrice:  $75 for one night. \n\nPay for ONE 1.5-hou r evening (single or couple) with a group of bereaved parents/ step-parent s hosted by facilitators Karla Helbert LPC and AnneMoss Rogers.\n\n\n[butt on link="https://buy.stripe.com/3cscNvc3c1Yl7nOfZ3" type="big" color="gree n" newwindow="yes"] REGISTER[/button]\n“For me\, one of the most helpful things was hearing from parents who are further along on this journey tha n I am. Not only were there pearls of wisdom but also lots of validation f or feeling exactly as I am and for understanding that I'm going to have th ose "knock me on my ass" moments forever--and that's ok.”\n-Chris\n\nABO UT YOUR HOSTS \n\nAnneMoss Rogers is a mental health and suicide educatio n expert\, professional speaker\, trainer\, and consultant. After her 20-y ear-old son\, Charles died by suicide in 2015\, Anne Moss chronicled her f amily’s tragedy in a newspaper article that went viral. She is the autho r of the award-winning memoir\, Diary of a Broken Mind and the best seller \, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recogn izing 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 N ational Institute of Mental Health. A UNC-Chapel Hill alumna\, Anne Moss c urrently lives in Richmond\, VA. Her surviving son is a filmmaker in LA.\n \nKarla Helbert LPC is a licensed professional counselor (LPC)\, internati onally certified yoga therapist\, (C-IAYT)\, registered yoga teacher (RYT) \, award-winning author\, and a Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider ce rtified through the MISS Foundation\, the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Tru st and the Center for Loss &\; Trauma. Counseling and supporting those living with traumatic grief and bereavement is her main focus of work. Kar la's life was forever changed when her son Theo died of a brain tumor at n ine months old. She is the author of three books on grief including Yoga f or Grief and Loss\, The Chakra System in Grief and Trauma\, and Finding Yo ur Own Way to Grieve: A Creative Activity Workbook for Kids and Teens on t he Autism Spectrum.\n[button link="https://buy.stripe.com/3cscNvc3c1Yl7nOf Z3" type="big" color="green" newwindow="yes"] REGISTER[/button] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mentalhealthawarenesseducation.com/wp-co ntent/uploads/coping-strategies-promo-image-rec.jpg CATEGORIES:Support Group,Training & Workshops,Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR