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Griever's Book Club
Education • Community • Support
We begin September 1st, 2025!
Introducing: The Griever's Book Club!
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This is an online book club focused on learning about grief. The intention is to further your own grief education with quality reading material to help you achieve insights and new perspectives about your own grieving process, while fostering a safe and supportive community environment where grief is welcomed. Come as you are, wherever you may be in your grief process!
Here are the details:
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It's $22/month, you are billed the day you sign up and recurring the same day of each month.
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Our first meeting is September 1st, 2025, 7pm, Zoom
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We meet LIVE on ZOOM twice per month, every 1st and 15th of the month at 7pm PST
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You are given the assigned chapters to complete prior to the meetings.
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We discuss the material LIVE on Zoom at our meetings.
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ALL grief is welcome (not limited to pet loss, although I am assuming that will be the majority of participants given my specialty.)
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Depending on participation numbers, shares will be focused on the reading material and brief reflections as to how it relates to your current grief journey (this is not a support group).
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No refunds offered.
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Replays will only be available with group consent. Live participation encouraged.
We begin September 1st, 2025!
SEPTEMBER BOOK:
'The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing'
Mary-Frances O'Connor
Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak to the psychological and emotional ramifications of loss and sorrow, we often overlook its impact on our physical bodies. Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor specializes in the study of grief, and in The Grieving Body she shares vital scientific research, revealing imperative new insights on its profound physiological impact. As she did in The Grieving Brain, O’Connor combines illuminating studies and personal stories to explore the toll loss takes on our cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems and the larger implications for our long-term well-being.
The Grieving Body addresses questions about how bereavement affects us, such as:
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Can we die of a broken heart?
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What happens in our bodies when we’re grieving?
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How do our coping behaviors affect our physical health?
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What is the cognitive impact of grief?
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Why are we more prone to illness during times of enormous stress?
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and more
Research-backed, warm, and empathetic, The Grieving Body is an essential, hopeful read for those experiencing loss as well as their supportive friends and family.
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We begin September 1st, 2025!