grief life coaching: What it is & What it is not???

Certified Grief Life Coaching covers a broad spectrum of approaches to include loss of health, career, and yes, even grief due to death most especially.  Mourning Joy provides a forward moving approach to grief with use of the International Coach Federation core principles.  

The question is: what makes Mourning Joy Certified Grief Life Coaching different from other coaches, therapists, counselors, etc.? Note the following:

Certified Grief Life Coaching with Mourning Joy addresses the pain of inward grief and points a client towards outward MOURNING IN ACTION. Many would ask what the difference is between the two as the words and phrases are often used interchangeably.  Mourning Joy has developed a model that provides a clear and concise way to differentiate between the two, thus, laying out a road map where one can know as to whether they are paralyzed with grief, or actively moving forward with mourning in action that ultimately, regardless of how long it might take, achieves restored hope. Grief is now included in the DSM-5 Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual and includes diagnoses such as 'Prolonged Grief Disorder' and 'Complicated Grief.' Once a client receives intervention from a therapist with the license to diagnose what is a natural human emotion to loss, then the diagnosis code remains on a client's mental health record without recourse. 

THE ANSWER FOR MOURNING in ACTION is the 'MOURNING JOY  3-LEGGED GRIEF MODEL': 

(1) Pillars of Hope

(2) Companion C's 

(3) ICE - Individual Coaching Experience. 

With this approach, which admittedly can be hard work, one will move forward from grief to healing to hope, all the while mourning-in-action their loss and transforming their hearts from inward pain to restored hope. 

 In terms of grief, the ICF core principles provide a rich confident pathway towards healing and hope, with a certified Mourning Joy Grief Life Coach fully realizing that life for their clients will be different and perhaps never the same as a person mourns the loss of a loved one.

A 'Certified Grief Life Coach' session is client driven, based on needs, and may include the following:

• Initial intake to include an explanation of the client's experience with personal loss & grief
• Session(s) to be 45-60 minutes in length; sessions may be longer depending on need
• Evaluation based coaching exercises that include enjoyable yet thought provoking activities such as journaling, exploring a grief-o-gram, learning about the multiple pitfalls of grief, reflecting on the firsties of the grief journey, the pruning project, and so much more
• Each session, although planned, will be flexible and client driven as the Grief Life Coach evaluates presenting client challenges and expressed needs
• Realizing that there is no timeline to moving forward with the grief journey, subsequent sessions will be scheduled based on client choice
• Client-Coach relationship may come to closure as the client begins to acknowledge successful movement forward through healing to ultimate restored hope

DISCLAIMER

"Certified Grief Life Coaching is NOT therapy, or mental health intervention, nor does it impose the fear of a mental health diagnosis. The DSM-5 is not used for purposes of Grief Life Coaching. If a person during the intake process presents with mental health indicators that suggest the need for an alternative, then resources are provided to the client to include counselors, therapists, and local clinics."

METHOD OF SERVICE 

Mourning Joy provides personal services within the comfort of your own home.  We use virtual technology to include Zoom, Skype, Duo, and a group alternative that may be appealing to individuals seeking to have the support of others who have experienced a similar journey specific to grief. 

In tribute during our first year, note the following:

Mourning Joy honors our HEROES:  THE GLOBAL HEATLHCARE COMMUNITY

As Certified Grief Life Coaches, we acknowledge that healthcare communities and families live with daily 'grief,' andin today's time, the healthcare professionals are grieving even to the point of walking away from their careers due to the pandemic stress they have lived with every day for over two years. 

To schedule your first Certified Grief Life Coach session, contact:

Sonja R Camden, CPGC, MSSW at:

scamden@mourningjoy.net

1-800-260-5404 Ext. 2

US Skype: 1-920-659-6122 

UK Skype: +44 131 618 83