Healing Holidays, Making Your Grief Count
Grief during the holidays is always challenging, and even more so in this past year. This workshop will help identify internal and external resources that contribute to self-compassion and enhance resiliency. It will help families embrace their grief, while strengthening characteristics of resilience. Participants will use the holidays to discover how their loved one can live on into their life story, using this special time to continue to heal.
6-8 pm, Tuesday, Dec. 12
ABODE
8619 Post Oak Lane
Facilitated by Edwin Sasek, ABODE Co-Founder.
Sponsored by ABODE and Porter Loring Mortuaries & Cremation Services.
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