What is a Grief Coach?
A grief coach is very different from a counselor or other therapeutic professional. A grief coach works with you to not only listen to your journey, but individualizes your session with strategies to help you during this time. For me, I've worked with clients that used a variety of strategies including music, writing, poetry, meditation, and more. It is often a combination of these techniques. I will work with you to individualize your plan.
The path of grief is not easy and sometimes what works one day, will not work the next. That's ok! You are always right where you need to be. The important things is just to work with someone... any one that can help. You are not alone at all.
I am available if you need and I would be honored to work with you whether a few short weeks or longer. The important thing is that you gain strength and hope.
Please feel free to email me at josepheppink@gmail.com. The first session is free and is usually around 20 minutes. It really is a time to get to know each other and see if I can help.
From healing, music pours forth
and from music, healing is assured.
Healing propels in various forms and it is the endeavor of my research to discover just why music plays an inherent role in mind, body, and spirit. This is not a new epiphany. We all turn on music when we are sad, need motivation, or just trying to remove the tension of a long day. But what it is about sonorites that invite us to enter into the realm of healing? What it is to me and to you that signifies strength and hope?
We have encountered days of fear, abuse, trials, injustice and yet we carry on. Sometimes we carry on without healing those former cares and the heaviness increases. Sometimes these hurts are just too much and they can only be healed one small step at a time - one tone at a time. We know that "all things work together for good".. eventually... in time... in place.
I'm including some sounds that you may find to help. Active listening is the key. Can you hear high sounds, deep tones, short sounds, long sounds? Can you hear sounds getting louder or fading away. Listen... really listen... and then then write down your thoughts.
You have an opportunity to begin the process of healing through music. Music is safe and it requires nothing other than to enter its presence and listen with your mind, body, and soul. And maybe, just maybe, you will begin to experience healing.
