This course explores the emotional and psychological impact of losing a child, offering students insight into grief, trauma, and healing. Through guided reflection, discussion, and wellness-based strategies, participants learn coping tools, emotional awareness, and resilience-building practices in a supportive environment from one grieving parent to the next parent. But also supporting anything that comes with grief because it has many faces and no one grieves the same. Safe Place.

Topics: • Course expectations & emotional safety • What trauma does to the brain • Grief vs. traumatic grief • Why loss feels unreal Activities: • Grounding exercise • Group agreements & boundaries • Reflection: “My experience of the first days” Take-Home Practice: • Emotional check-in journal • Simple grounding technique

Topics: • Emotional waves & triggers • Guilt, anger, sadness, numbness • Physical symptoms of grief • Myth-busting grief timelines Activities: • Emotion mapping • Group discussion • Journaling exercise We could go down this path or we could go through the realistic one that sometimes we need to say Fuck it and just be with what the day brings; pain, tears, laughter, or etc.