What is (and is not) Holistic Grief Support?

Holistic grief support is a Safe, universally effective approach that offers comfort while supporting the whole-person.

Holistic grief support is a natural way to help someone navigate all that loss and trauma can bring. This gentle approach honors and supports the mind, body, spirit, emotions, heart, and soul in grief and uses them as tools to help create balance.

A prompt to feel seen…
A reading to slow down and be with…
A reflection to return to…
A small piece of love and comfort to keep…
A grief specific creativity craft to bring peace…
A way to honor their Loved One…

This non-religious, ethical, non-clinical, and non-invasive way to hold space for grievers offers simple yet powerful, time-honored, whole-body tools like:

  • breathwork

  • movement

  • creativity

  • ritual

  • mindfulness

  • affirmations

  • awareness

  • self care

  • connection rituals

  • a small treasure

  • transitional items

  • writing & journaling

  • music and sound

  • nature and animals

  • embodiment activities

  • food rituals

  • story telling

  • meditations

  • active imagination

This conscious approach offers safe, universal, compassionate grief support in a way that is easy for grievers to take in and work with.

Holistic grief support is not:

  • therapy

  • clinical advice

  • diagnosis

  • judgment

  • religious counsel

  • a linear ‘solution’

  • a deadline for grief

  • toxic positivity

  • a quick fix for suffering

Learn more about Pamela Ann Noxon and her comforting and compassionate approach to grief support.

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