INSPIRE
Courageous Grieving Support
with Melissa Bowers
Find your path to healing
My beloved,
As a bereaved mother and grief educator, I am here to compassionately guide and support you through this impossible time.
I know that when you lose someone you love, your life suddenly changes forever.
You are left alone, struggling, feeling completely broken, and wondering if you will ever feel good about living again.
Even when surrounded by well intentioned family and friends, it’s important to feel heard, to be supported, and to really connect with someone who understands, so we are comfortable sharing our deepest pain.
We often don’t know how to be present to our grief, to even want to move forward when you are in grief can feel like a betrayal.
I will share how being able to meaningfully connect with others has been one of my most treasured pieces in my grief journey, and has inspired my personal growth, courage and resilience.
I have learned that their is hope, you can transmute your pain into possibility.
You can create meaning in your life and in the life of your loved one ♡
Sharing your grief is an act of love. I would love to hear your heart+story.
All the love x
Our next 12-week group starts May 13th
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Compassionately supporting others in their grief journey is my lifework. We will explore ways to navigate and better understand grief together to begin healing your heart and honouring your grief, and to create a meaningful life full of love around your loss ♡
Melissa Bowers
Love Is Forever – Share Your Heart+Story
Sharing your grief is an act of love. Your relationship with your loved one continues through your shared stories and cherished memories. As we move through our grief journey we will find new ways to continue our relationship and to honour our loved one ♡
INSPIRE Holistic Healing & Hope
INSPIRE is a heart centered community that holds a sacred space to compassionately support you as you navigate your grief, inspiring holistic healing, hope and growth, one day at a time. Melissa shares how being able to meaningfully connect with others has been one of her most treasured pieces in her grief journey. You will be guided to find understanding, peace and love in your own grief journey.
Grief Must Be Witnessed
You are not alone, our heart centered community is a private and sacred space to connect and share your heart+story with people who understand and “get it“. Share your story and become emotionally honest as you allow yourself to feel your feelings, release painful memories, heartache, regret, and any feelings of blame and guilt. While you are encouraged to share your heart+story, you may also choose to just listen and that is perfectly ok.
Find Your Path to Healing
Melissa holds the yogic perspective that we are whole as we are, so even if you feel broken it is important to remember that you are not broken.
Navigate your grief your way. Even though grief is a deeply personal path, we can find tremendous comfort and healing in our shared connection. Together we will take small yet meaningful steps towards healing each week, being gently guided to navigate and better understand grief together, as we explore mindful self-compassion practices and self-care rituals. You may be new to grief, or grieving a decades old loss, knowing that you are supported in your grief journey will help you to get unstuck and find your path to healing.
We Lead with Lovingkindness
Please feel welcome as all our groups are lead with lovingkindness. This is a safe space for us to support each other in sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings. We are often at our most vulnerable when sharing about the death of a loved one, please bring a willingness to listen to others, and be prepared to give & receive kindful attention.
Courageous Grieving
It takes courage to share your grief, to share your story and your pain ~ sometimes it takes courage just to show up each day. Each week we support each other as we share our heart+story and connect with others, with an intention to move towards remembering with more love than pain. You will be encouraged to contemplate a HeartCompass weekly question that inspires your personal growth towards healing, as well as being able to ask Melissa your most important questions.
Being supported in your grief journey will inspire you to grow your courage and resilience as you move forward to create meaning in your life and in the life of your loved one ♡
Mindful Self-Compassion
& Spiritual Teachings
Your wellbeing is so important as you navigate this devastating time in your life. You will learn to carry your grief without being overwhelmed, showing up for yourself with a gentleness and grace so that you can tend to your feelings with compassion and lovingkindness. Integrate grief, mindful self-compassion, and self-care rituals into your life ~ breathwork, healing guided meditations, inspiring videos, and mindfulness practices infused with spiritual teachings.
The healing power of words. We will explore writings from spiritual teachers and luminaries including Adyashanti, Brené Brown, Pema Chödrön, Deepak Chopra, Paulo Coelho, Baba Ram Dass, Hafiz, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Krishnamurti, Kristin Neff, Mark Nepo, John O’Donohue, Don Miguel Ruiz, Rumi, Sharon Salzberg, Michael Singer, Eckhart Tolle, Allan Watts, Marianne Williamson …
Spirituality is simply the path of the heart. ~ Marianne Williamson
Grief Yin Yoga with Healing Meditations (all levels)
Experience heart opening Grief Yin Yoga practices which inspire a deeper connection to yourself and your loved one as you gently move into your body awareness to help calm the body and quiet the mind. Melissa teaches you to understand the direct relationship between emotional stress and physical symptoms in your body and why it’s so important to integrate the wholeness of your love and your pain. Each practice has 9 nurturing postures set to music for emotional release, followed by a healing guided meditation.
Compassionate Guidance & Support
We are a grief avoidant and grief illiterate society that often expects us to “just move on“, and unresolved grief can affect every area of your life. Your grief deserves your attention and mindful presence for you to fully grieve your loss. Melissa holds a sacred space for you to attend to your grief, as she guides you to be present to your feelings and to open your heart and listen to what it has to say ♡
Monthly Themes & Weekly Intentions
Journal Prompts & Reflection
Mindful Self-Compassion with Spiritual Teachings
Grief Yin Yoga + Healing Meditations
Self-Care Rituals & Music Playlists
Private Online Community & Classroom
It can feel overwhelming when those closest to us, our bestest and most loving friends & family, are unable to comprehend the impact that grief has on our life ♡
Melissa Bowers
Are you ready to begin healing your heart after the death of your loved one?
Are you ready to share your heart+story and to release any feelings of blame and guilt?
Are you ready to honour where you are in your grief journey and to honour your loved one?
Our INSPIRE Grief Support Program includes themes, intentions, questions, and
mindful self-compassion practices from the HeartCompass Method.
INSPIRE: COURAGEOUS GRIEVING SUPPORT MEMBERSHIP
12-week online grief support membership
Zoom gatherings with Melissa Bowers
Maximum 15 participants per Grief Support Group
Grief Support Groups
Monday or Tuesday
(1hr)
Child Loss
Monday (1hr)
3:00pm PST | 6:00pm EST
(Closed group format)
This group is open to you if your child has died. You may be their parent, grandparent, guardian or anyone who defines their role as a parent.
Parent Loss
Tuesday (1hr)
1:00pm PST | 4:00pm EST
(Closed group format)
This group is open to you if your parent has died. You may be their child, grandchild, niece/nephew, family friend who defines them in a parental role.
All Loss
Tuesday (1hr)
3:00pm PST | 6:00pm EST
(Closed group format)
This group is open to anyone who has experienced a death ~ sibling, spouse, family or friend, or a co-worker, community member, or support person.
Included with your INSPIRE membership
Mindful Self-Compassion & Spiritual Teachings
Thursday (1hr)
4:00pm PST | 7:00pm EST
Grief Yin Yoga with Healing Meditations
Sunday (1hr)
6:00am PST | 9:00am EST or
3:00pm PST | 6:00pm EST
Private Online Community & Classroom
24/7 Support continues online where you can connect with our INSPIRE community to post messages, photos, poetry & writing, and share what’s on your heart.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
Rumi
Love notes from our community
“My most heartfelt thankyou to Melissa for sharing such comforting and healing words. Sometimes her group session was the only thing I had to look forward to that week. To know that she really cares has inspired my grief journey.“
Irene
“Thank you for your compassion and wisdom. In my time of need, I was connected to Melissa through a close friend. I have slowly been able to process some of my feelings around my grief. Being able to share my story with another parent who has lost their child has helped more than I can say. Thank you Melissa from the bottom of my heart.”
Heather
“I have attended group meditation sessions with Melissa for nearly 10 years, and recently private grief mentorship. She has such a calming presence and intuitive nature. Melissa has been a light in my life, at a time when I thought I was all alone, she reminds you who you really are, she is curious, asks questions, and then guides you to find your way. If you are ready, you will experience a new life perspective with Melissa.“
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INSPIRE membership sessions are not recorded in order to respect the privacy of all. INSPIRE membership sessions are group conversations around the death of a loved one. All sessions with Melissa Bowers are considered coaching or mentorship and are not therapy or group therapy. Melissa Bowers does not accept insurance. No online discussion should be used to replace professional help if that is needed.
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