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Many times you hear a teaching described as revolutionary. Part of the definition of the word revolution is, “a sudden change in a system”.  I believe the Healthy Grieving process is a way that kind of change can genuinely happen.  The two day seminar was a wonderful introduction, allowing me to see how this could not only bring about sudden change and growth in my life, but how I could use this in my counseling practice.  I was challenged to process emotions and feelings in a way that was truly different. I began to see how this could change the trajectory within a counseling relationship and move people beyond the story telling to real healing and a new, more accurate self identity.

I would highly recommend this seminar; it will be different from any grief support paradigm you’ve known in the past.   The setting for learning was personal, fast moving, and interactive while David and Peggy share a heartfelt passion that flows freely from their lives bringing the material alive in a unique way.  It was totally worth the investment of time and resources.

Deanne Helmboldt MA, LMFT

Greeley, Colorado

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<strong>I walked away with a whole new perspective about grief …</strong>

Grieffree.org is an incredibly passionate, caring and generous group of people who are truly in it for the greater good.  David, Peggy, and everyone at Grieffree.org has been, and continues to be extremely encouraging, compassionate and excited about sharing the Healthy Grieving Process with myself and other helping professionals.  Both the Introductory Training, and the Two-Day Professional Training far exceeded my expectations.  I walked away with a whole new perspective about grief and a way to let go of what no longer serves me, as well as a way to help other people do the same. This work has shown me that healing is not only about gathering new tools and techniques to cope with life in a more effective way, nor is it just about surrendering to and accepting ourselves.  If and when the time is right, healing can allow us to fully own every action we have ever taken, let go of the past, and thus, set ourselves free.  Yes, this is easier said than done, <i>and </i>I believe that it’s well worth the effort; it can lead to a more peaceful and gratifying existence.  If you are ready, don’t hold back!  Dive into this work and watch your world transform.

Jenny Arribau, MA  True Self Therapy, LLC

Psychotherapist in Denver, CO

<strong>a clear process, connecting concepts to my own feelings and experiences...</strong>

For most of my life, I have been searching for meaning, purpose, and inner peace. I have read countless books, engaged in psychotherapy and devoted a career to psychiatry. I have grown in many ways and gained much wisdom. Nonetheless, I frequently find I have difficulty putting it all together. That is until I met David. He has incredible insight and has provided me with essential tools that I have yet to encounter. Never before in my training have I learned such a clear process, connecting concepts to my own feelings and experiences. What’s more, he teaches techniques that you can use to enhance your own growth. I am already noticing significant benefits from my work with him. I am forever grateful for David and what he has brought to my life.

Adam Burstein, DO

<strong>it empowers clients to find peace and healing within them …</strong>

The Healthy Grieving Process is helping me guide clients towards more meaningful inner work in conjunction with the energy medicine that my practice is centered around. They are noticing transformational shifts in their lives by learning how to feel their feelings and by taking back ownership for their life experiences. Watching clients change their lives is the most rewarding experience I can have as a helping professional. This work is honest and revolutionary, and it empowers clients to find peace and healing within them. It guides people towards resolution of their root issues instead of covering up the symptoms. I was unable to get clients to that deeper place within them without The Healthy Grieving Process. What is even more beautiful is that I can truly empathize with my clients because I am also doing my own grief work with this modality. I am able to be more vulnerable, which creates a safe and nurturing space for clients to also be more open and willing to explore the uncharted territory of their souls. The Healthy Grieving Process brings cohesiveness to my work that ripples out into the world to create change. I feel like I am able to make a difference now and that I am serving the community in a much more profound and effective way.

Karyn Seitz  The Soul’s Thread

Denver, CO

<strong>a direct experience that has renewed my life…</strong>

I attended two introductory Healthy Grieving workshops and the two-day training. The introductory workshops are like snapshots, whereas in the two-day training you get to experience and understand the process more in slow motion.

The workshops and the training reinforced the awareness that I have conceptualized my experience rather than living it or feeling it. I was able to clearly see my pattern of withholding and intellectualizing my experience.  I know that as a result of early trauma and a near death experience, I was drawn to study psychology, and was seduced by the framework of understanding the pyscho-social journey. I more or less turned over my identification to the process of studying these concepts.  They all made sense to me but they did not touch into my personal emotional experience; they conceptualized it but they weren’t it.

Psychology is a template. It isn’t the real thing. It’s a description of something…  <strong><span style="color: #800000;"><a style="color: #800000;" title="A Professional Perspective" href="http://www.grieffree.org/a-professional-perspective/">read more</a></span></strong>

Robert Kaplan, MSW

Denver, CO

<strong>a personal sense of healing and forgiveness…</strong>

As a hospice bereavement coordinator, I was interested in learning about the Healthy Grieving process and experiencing it for myself.

What’s unique about this approach is that rather than the loss being about someone or something external, this process guides us to bring the loss into our own being and look at our own identification. What stands out most for me was the question <b><i>What did the loved one give you that you feel you can’t give to yourself? </i></b> as well as the follow-up question of <b><i>How you can learn to give that to yourself?  </i></b>When we understand that we can do for ourselves and give to ourselves what we wanted or needed from our loved one, the relationship totally changes. Somehow they are alive in us in a new way. We can integrate the gift of the loved one into ourselves and make it ours.  So <i>instead of having to need it, we can now have it,</i> which is so beautiful. I used the process to grieve the death of my own mother and found it extraordinarily helpful. I found a great relief and release, as well as a personal sense of healing and forgiveness.

This process isn’t for everyone. It is most appropriate for stable clients who are past the initial or crisis stages of grief and mourning, and those who are willing or able to go deep. I think it would also be helpful if the client has some understanding that we are more than our stories, feelings and identifications. But for those who are not moving through their grief in a healthy way, and are willing to experience some intense feelings to get movement and release, this is a very powerful and helpful process. I would recommend it for anyone in the grief and loss professions.

Christine A.

Hospice Bereavement Coordinator

<strong>This amazing process helps me become conscious… </strong>

I recently read a quote that said, “Until the unconscious becomes conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate.” Whenever I use the Healthy Grieving process, as soon as the underlying issue comes to light, I am able to see how it has been ruling my life.

I have used the Healthy Grieving process to work on some major issues. It has shifted some big stuff for me, and continues to do so. This amazing process helps me become conscious and release the things that have been running my life.

The most important piece for me – and it sounds rather trite but it is huge – is self acceptance.  The work I’ve done with the Healthy Grieving process has freed me to really be me.  I fully – 100% — accept who I am.

As a result of this work, I also have a much more self-guided way of living rather than being at the mercy or effect of things. This process has taught me to recognize the ways that I am creating my life and to ask, “Is this what I want to create?” I also notice more discernment around what I’m willing to experience and what I’m not, and that I now seek more authenticity in my relationships.

One of the coolest things is that every time I use the Healthy Grieving process, it leads me to new areas I can explore and look into.  It’s like a long string that I can follow from one release to another. The process itself leads to that kind of expansion, and I look forward to incorporating it into my practice to help my clients experience the letting go and freedom that the Healthy Grieving process provides.

Vivian Sylvest Experiential Psychotherapy  Boulder, CO

<strong>the missing link for my practice…</strong>

The owning process was the missing link for me in my practice. I didn’t know how to take people deeper and now I have the avenue to take them as deep as they want to go.  And as a result, they experience profound changes. <strong><span style="color: #800000;"><a style="color: #800000;" title="The Process of Owning: A Therapist’s Perspective" href="http://www.grieffree.org/the-process-of-owning-a-therapists-perspective/">Read more…</a></span></strong>

Anonymous Upon Request  Denver Therapist

<strong>an amazingly beautiful way for my clients to be constantly introspective …</strong>

I was searching for a more effective way for my clients to find their way though their grief. I was drawn to the Healthy Grieving process because of the opportunity for the resolution of the pain of grief rather than the undetermined, drawn out state that is so typical for my clients to be in.

I like using the Healthy Grieving process because it <i>is</i> resolution based. In a series of just three or four sessions I can easily get my clients to a point of resolving the underlying issues that cause their grief. I have also come to appreciate the diversity of this process and its many broad applications. I especially enjoy helping my clients to look inward to develop self-awareness rather than being reactionary to the outside world.

I have found that the Healthy Grieving process is a brilliant and quick way to accomplish the principal of becoming awakened, which is achieved by looking inward with the idea of eliminating one’s story and dropping away falseness. The Healthy Grieving process is an amazingly beautiful way for my clients to be constantly introspective to open up to the truth of who they are which is where I believe true healing takes place.

Adam Seitz  The Soul’s Thread

<strong>I’m a believer!</strong>

<b>“</b>I am already using what I learned in the half-day workshop in my practice. Differentiating between feelings and emotions is magical. People get so much deeper; sometimes I can’t even believe the depth of where they can get to. Also the results of going through the Healthy Grieving process myself have been incredible. I have so much energy now. The work freed up something really big in me. I have a few areas where I can feel that I’m still blocked and that I need to work on, but before, my whole life was blocked. Let me just say, I’m a believer!”

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