What is the Grief Recovery Method?
The Grief Recovery Method is a 7 week structured programme through which you discover the steps you can take to heal your broken heart.
I offer the first session free so that you have the chance to find out more about the programme and decide whether you would like to do this tender work with me.
Evidence Based
The Grief Recovery Method is a 7-step programme that has been subject to scientific scrutiny. It demonstrably helps grievers recover after an experience of loss.
Are We a Fit?
The Grief Recovery Method programme is an evidence-based programme that has been helping grievers for fifty years, across forty countries.
The Grief Recovery Method helped me move on from domestic abuse, devastating court proceedings, bereavement, and other more intangible losses, like the loss of faith. It is a peer-led programme, so I teach by example.
Where are you in your grief journey?
- You may have been bereaved yesterday and you are in the throes of despair and pain.
- Your experience of loss may have occurred years ago.
- You don’t think of yourself as a griever but you feel dissatisfied because your life is not as happy as you would like it to be.
The key to finding peace through the Grief Recovery Method is your willingness to look at your grief, wherever you are on your grief journey, and take the action steps to bring peace to your heart.
Do you have the time?
The Grief Recovery Method is a 7-session programme. Each session lasts between 30 and 90 minutes, and there is reading and exercises to complete between sessions.
Can you afford it?
I charge £720 for the whole course, the first is free to give you the opportunity to find out if it is right for you. It can be paid up front, or per session. There is the opportunity to continue with more sessions to implement what you have learnt with my support. Each graduate session is half price at £60.
I also offer group sessions that can be accessed through EventBrite.
You Might Find the Grief Recovery Method Helpful:
If you are are dealing with devastating news
The Grief Recovery Method will support you to unpack the different elements of loss and bring them to peace so that you have the emotional equilibrium you need to make sound decisions.
If you are grappling with addictive behaviours
Addiction to pornography, smoking, drugs, shopping and work disrupts our lives and damages our relationships. The Grief Recovery Method helps you identify and bring peace to the underlying losses that are leading to these habits making these behaviours much less compelling and distracting.
If your heart is broken
Divorce, the ending of a friendship, estrangement from parents or children, empty-nest – all these can lead to feelings of heartbreak. The Grief Recovery Method will furnish you with the tools you need to bring peace to your heart.
If you have been bereaved
When someone we love dies it can feel as if our very soul has been ripped from us. No matter how recently your bereavement, the Grief Recovery Method can help you carve out a place of peace in your heart and bring some stability to your world.
When someone who was less than loved dies, we can be left feeling very confused. The Grief Recovery Method can help you tease out these uncomfortable feelings and bring peace to your heart.
Domestic Abuse
Physical, emotional and sexual abuse gives rise to a panoply of losses. The Grief Recovery Method will help you identify your feelings and support you to rediscover your vitality and connection with your own heart.
If you have lost your job
Redundancy can lead not only to a financial crisis but to an identity crisis too. It stretches our relationships to breaking point and leaves us feeling jarred and out of control. The Grief Recovery Method supports you to take the action you need to bring peace to your inner world so that your are resourced enough to bring change to your material world.
If you are experiencing poverty
The lack of financial security is accompanied by many losses, some tangible like the inability to pay for things that you once could, and some intangible like the loss of respect or self-esteem. The Grief Recovery Method helps you unravel your feelings and bring peace to each element so that you have the clarity you need to take care of yourself in the best possible way.
If you are ill
Physical, mental and terminal illnesses bring with them a multitude of losses that can make us feel as if we have been stripped of our very essence. The Grief Recovery Method can help you uncover all the layers of your response to illness and find peace within the experience.
If you have lost a baby
The death of a baby, at any stage of pregnancy, leaves devastation in its path. If you are feeling too fractured to think clearly, struggling to manage relationships with a partner or children, the Grief Recovery Method can help you gently explore the meaning of this loss for you and bring peace to the emotional turmoil.
If your beloved pet has died
When an animal companion dies, we can be left stranded in our grief because there are so few resources to help us navigate this particular loss. The Grief Recovery Method gives you the tools to identify and complete the pain of your loss without judgement.
Court Proceedings
In the aftermath of a family breakdown, hostile court proceedings can make you feel as if you will never reach the bottom of your pain. The Grief Recovery Method can help you become clear about the source of your suffering so that you can take the action to bring peace. With peace in your heart you can navigate legal proceedings with clarity and self-awareness.
What others have said about working with me
My work with Rachel was incredibly healing, deep and powerful.
Morven, Scotland
Thank you so much for all your guidance, clarity, support and wisdom during my grief recovery journey.
Jeanette, Norfolk
Coming into this journey I didn’t know how much of a positive effect it would have on my wellbeing until all of a sudden I just felt so much lighter and in a place I never thought I would be. I am and will be grateful for meeting Rachel and the Grief Recovery Programme.
Gina, UK
Who Won’t Find the Grief Recovery Method Helpful?
The Grief Recovery Method won’t serve you if
- you are not willing to take responsibility for your feelings
- you are not willing to be emotionally honest
- you are not willing to complete the homework
Other Grief Recovery Methods
Do you know how to support children through the experience of loss?
Are you a parent, uncle, aunty, teacher, nurse, youth worker, foster carer, nursery nurse, juvenile detention officer, or meet with young people in your personal or professional life in any other way?
It is part of our responsibility to raise the next generation with the emotional resources to navigate the pain of grief and yet, in modern society, adults are poorly resourced to provide this guidance.
I trained as a children’s nurse at the world famous children’s hospital in London, Great Ormond Street, and still found myself lacking in these skills.
I am delighted to bring to you the Helping Children with Loss programme, based on the book, When Children Grieve. It is a 4 week course that runs regularly through the year and up-skills caregivers to provide emotionally mature support to children who are experiencing loss.
If you would like to discover how to instil emotional resilience in the next generation, please get in touch.
Grieving the death of an animal companion can be hard when our friends and family don’t understand our grief or judge it to be inappropriate.
If you would like support around the loss of a pet, please get in touch.
Grief Recovery Handbook
You do not need to work with a specialist to do this work – although it is recommended. It is possible to follow the steps of the Grief Recovery Programme with a friend using the Grief Recovery Method Handbook.
The book can be bought at most major bookstores or can be purchased here.