Course Curriculum: After the Casseroles

7 Modules • 30+ Lessons • Reflection Exercises • Self-Paced • Lifetime Access

What You’ll Explore

This self-paced course includes seven thoughtfully sequenced modules designed to help you better understand grief, care for your nervous system, process difficult emotions, and begin building a life that makes room for both love and loss.

Module 1: Understanding the Impact of Grief, Loss & Transitions

Build a new understanding of grief by exploring what it really is, what it affects, and why so many common beliefs about grief leave people feeling misunderstood.

  • Grief Is Not a Problem to Solve
  • What You Were Taught to Believe About Grief
  • The Truth About Stages, Timelines, and What People Get Wrong
  • When Grief Pushes You Beyond Your Capacity (Window of Tolerance)
  • Life Audit: Taking Inventory of What Grief Has Touched
  • Reflection Questions & Practical Exercise

Module 2: Embrace & Understand

Learn to recognize, name, and make space for emotions that grief often leaves difficult to identify or express.

  • What You’re Feeling Might Not Have Words Yet
  • Naming What’s Real, Not Just What’s Expected
  • Using the Emotions Wheel to Find Language for Loss
  • Reflection Questions & Practical Exercise

Module 3: Unspoken Words

Create space for the conversations, emotions, and stories that never had the chance to be expressed.

  • What Wasn’t Said, and Still Needs to Be Heard
  • Writing for the Words That Never Got Out
  • Journaling for the Things You Couldn’t Say
  • Reflection Questions & Practical Exercise

Module 4: Daily Practices That Support Healing

Explore practical, body-based tools that can help you find moments of steadiness when grief feels overwhelming.

  • Regulating Your Body When Grief Overwhelms
  • How EFT Can Help Your Body Process Grief
  • Tap Along: Guided EFT Session for Emotional Relief
  • Boundaries as Protection, Not Punishment
  • Reflection Questions & Practical Exercise

Module 5: Rewiring the Grieving Brain

Understand how grief affects the brain and nervous system, why certain patterns become deeply ingrained, and what supports lasting change.

  • What Grief Does to Your Brain
  • Breaking the Loop: How Habits, Thoughts, and Beliefs Get Stuck
  • Tools That Rewire: Small Practices, Big Changes
  • Emotional Flashbacks & Grief Triggers: Why You Feel “Hijacked” by the Past
  • Why You Can’t “Think” Your Way Out of Grief (And What Helps Instead)
  • Reflection Questions & Practical Exercise

Module 6: Meaning, Connection & Moving Forward (Your Way)

Explore what healing, meaning, and continued connection can look like while honoring your own beliefs, values, and personal journey.

  • Finding Meaning…If You Want To
  • They’re Closer Than You Think (Optional)
  • Living With Grief, Not In It
  • Reflection Questions & Practical Exercise

Module 7: Integration & What Comes Next

Bring everything together as you continue building a life that makes room for both grief and hope.

  • You’re Still Becoming: Integration After the Course
  • When Grief Re-Emerges
  • Identity After Loss: Who Am I Now?
  • Reflection Questions & Practical Exercise