Grief Group
Phew, I don’t know about you, but the holidays always bring up stuff for me.
When we go back ‘home’ and visit family, we fall back into old patterns. We step back into the role we filled as a child in our family home, no matter how old we are.
You play a part whether you are the oldest, youngest, or middle child. Only children, you have yet another part - it’s a bit of all three.
You may feel like you’ve overcome so much, broken patterns that didn’t serve you and are living your life the way you want, but the moment you walk back into your family home - even with your little family in tow, you fall right back into those old patterns and behaviors. Your family expects you to be the person you were when you were five, ten, or even twenty, but you’re not anymore.
In group dynamics, we all play a role, and when our group comes back together, we fall back into those old roles.
It’s exhausting trying to reorient your family to the person you are now and make them see that you have grown and evolved - and hopefully, they have, too. You feel unseen, unheard, maybe unvalued even as the person you are.
By the time you get home again, you feel disoriented. Old stuff was stirred up–things you thought you grew through or left in the past.
You feel grief over the relationships that you had that have changed. You feel grief over the loss of connection you feel to the people you were once closest to.
You grieve the connections you could have if others would evolve and grow with you, but they’re not ready. They’re on another path.
Taking the time to sit with your emotions and feel your grief allows it to move through you.
We typically find it easier to understand the grief we feel around losing a person to death, and that can also come up around the holidays–the people we miss and how things used to be. But learning to grieve these other elements that feel more subtle can greatly impact how you move out of the holidays into the next season.
This four-week grief group will meet for one hour a week and focus on the emotions of grief and why expecting yourself to move through the stages of grief in a neat and tidy order is bullshit.
Bring your Human Design chart, or get yours free here and join me for this grief group, where we look at emotions from a Human Design perspective and the grief we feel around and after the holidays.
Death Journal Class Dec 2023
Death Journaling - FREE
Come spend 90 minutes with Death Doula and Grief Coach Aypril Porter, creating your personal death journal. A death journal is a notebook that you will use to record your thoughts, wishes, memories, and more. You can use it to explore your thoughts on end-of-life topics and what kind of funeral or memorial service you’d hope for so your loved ones can understand and fulfill your wishes.
This is also a legacy project where you can share your favorite memories, quotations, scripture, or anything important to you. You can share your own wisdom of what you’ve learned in your journey through life and want to leave for your family. Families and friends cherish these journals to help them remember you and what was important to you long after you are gone. Having something you touched, worked on, and wrote in helps them feel connected to you.
Please bring a notebook to work on. This can be as simple as an inexpensive three-ring binder or as fancy as an art journal. We’ll have pens, markers, paints, and inspiration for things to write about or consider as we spend time together in community, discussing and sharing thoughts, ideas, and memories and creating your personal death journal. You can start this at any age and add to it as things come up or thoughts change. Feel free to bring any magazines, articles, pictures, or other mementos you’d like to include.
Death Journal Class Nov 2023
Death Journaling - FREE
Come spend 90 minutes with Death Doula and Grief Coach Aypril Porter, creating your personal death journal. A death journal is a notebook that you will use to record your thoughts, wishes, memories, and more. You can use it to explore your thoughts on end-of-life topics and what kind of funeral or memorial service you’d hope for so your loved ones can understand and fulfill your wishes.
This is also a legacy project where you can share your favorite memories, quotations, scripture, or anything important to you. You can share your own wisdom of what you’ve learned in your journey through life and want to leave for your family. Families and friends cherish these journals to help them remember you and what was important to you long after you are gone. Having something you touched, worked on, and wrote in helps them feel connected to you.
Please bring a notebook to work on. This can be as simple as an inexpensive three-ring binder or as fancy as an art journal. We’ll have pens, markers, paints, and inspiration for things to write about or consider as we spend time together in community, discussing and sharing thoughts, ideas, and memories and creating your personal death journal. You can start this at any age and add to it as things come up or thoughts change. Feel free to bring any magazines, articles, pictures, or other mementos you’d like to include.
Death Journal Class Oct 2023
Death Journaling - FREE
Come spend 90 minutes with Death Doula and Grief Coach Aypril Porter, creating your personal death journal. A death journal is a notebook that you will use to record your thoughts, wishes, memories, and more. You can use it to explore your thoughts on end-of-life topics and what kind of funeral or memorial service you’d hope for so your loved ones can understand and fulfill your wishes.
This is also a legacy project where you can share your favorite memories, quotations, scripture, or anything important to you. You can share your own wisdom of what you’ve learned in your journey through life and want to leave for your family. Families and friends cherish these journals to help them remember you and what was important to you long after you are gone. Having something you touched, worked on, and wrote in helps them feel connected to you.
Please bring a notebook to work on. This can be as simple as an inexpensive three-ring binder or as fancy as an art journal. We’ll have pens, markers, paints, and inspiration for things to write about or consider as we spend time together in community, discussing and sharing thoughts, ideas, and memories and creating your personal death journal. You can start this at any age and add to it as things come up or thoughts change. Feel free to bring any magazines, articles, pictures, or other mementos you’d like to include.
Death Journal Class Sept. 2023
Death Journaling - FREE
Come spend 90 minutes with Death Doula and Grief Coach Aypril Porter, creating your personal death journal. A death journal is a notebook that you will use to record your thoughts, wishes, memories, and more. You can use it to explore your thoughts on end-of-life topics and what kind of funeral or memorial service you’d hope for so your loved ones can understand and fulfill your wishes.
This is also a legacy project where you can share your favorite memories, quotations, scripture, or anything important to you. You can share your own wisdom of what you’ve learned in your journey through life and want to leave for your family. Families and friends cherish these journals to help them remember you and what was important to you long after you are gone. Having something you touched, worked on, and wrote in helps them feel connected to you.
Please bring a notebook to work on. This can be as simple as an inexpensive three-ring binder or as fancy as an art journal. We’ll have pens, markers, paints, and inspiration for things to write about or consider as we spend time together in community, discussing and sharing thoughts, ideas, and memories and creating your personal death journal. You can start this at any age and add to it as things come up or thoughts change. Feel free to bring any magazines, articles, pictures, or other mementos you’d like to include.
Event Two
Join me for Human Design 101 $49
A live six-week class on the basics of Human Design
In this course, we will cover:
What is Human Design
Energy Types, including Strategy
Inner Authority
Profile
Centers, defined and undefined
Other details
Classes will be one hour, held over Zoom.
Classes will be recorded and shared with participants if you are unable to make the live calls.
We will begin with learning about each of the areas above and have time for questions.
You'll be asked to submit your birth info so I can pull up your chart on the call if you have specific questions.
Class dates are Wed Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, from 5:30 - 6:30 pm PST, and the last class will be held on Thursday, Sept. 7th, 5:30-6:30 pm PST.
Free Grief Group
Free Grief Group
Are you grieving someone or something, and do you need a place to talk about it?
Join me for a free grief group via Zoom on Saturday, July 29, 2023, 11:30 - 12:30 pm PST.
This group is a space where you can bring your grief and be in the presence of others with their grief. There is no set agenda for this time together. It’s simply a space to be heard and hear others' grief in a safe space.
This can include grief over the death of friends or family, pets, or living losses.
You must register through the link below to join.
Space is limited to 10 people.