Qualifications

Cathy Cheshire is the Founder and Administrator of Cathy Cheshire, LLC, Master Grief Coaching and Online Certification. She is transparent about her qualifications including credentials, education, and experience. 

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Contents

  • Master Grief Coach Certification Program
  • Education
      • College Degree
      • Grief and Healing
      • Sensitive and Empath
      • Mindfulness and Meditation
      • Thought and Emotion
      • Extraordinary Experiences
      • Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping
      • Coaching and Therapy
      • Business
  • Speaking Engagements
  • Associations Researched
  • Organizations Researched
  • Advisors, Coaches, and Mentors
  • Experts Researched and Recommended

Master Grief Coach Certification Program

Cathy has a business degree from Arizona State University. She transitioned from a healthcare career including positions as a CEO, Consultant, Leadership Coach, and Behavioral Helpline Director of Operations to grief, coaching, and small business Author, Speaker, and Teacher. Her credentials include grief therapy training and mentoring from The Portland Institute for Loss and Transition and Life Coach Certification from Michael J Duckett, AA, BS, MA, DC, JD Science, Law, Chiropractic, Theology, Psychology, and world-renowned Social Scientist. The International Coaching Science Research Foundation is a leader in Life Coach training and certification since 1996 providing quality training and over 5,000 Life Coach certifications. 

Cathy experienced a lifetime of loss including abuse, loved ones with addictions, relatives trying suicide, and the death of two children. She created the Certified Master Grief Coach program because of how much she struggled to find healthy grief information and support. She spent over three years researching the work of prominent psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and other related specialists listed on the “Experts Researched and Recommended” webpage under the “Education” website menu option and at the end of corresponding modules.

She recognized the opportunity to create a unique grief education program combining diverse summarized grief expert information, not including any other personal opinions with the fundamental communication components of life coaching and mental/behavioral health therapy. Mental disorder treatment information, which is only a mental/behavioral health Therapist licensed specialty is not included. Grief is natural but can lead to a psychological illness it if becomes unresolved.

The Master Grief Coach Certification program is for those already supporting grievers or for those who want to without the time and expense of becoming a mental/behavioral health Therapist. The program is for those who want to focus on grief and not mental disorders, who often have limited time and/or significant university financial resources.

Grief-related topics are avoided and most wait until emotional pain is negatively affecting their life before seeking knowledge and support. It is much easier to learn about loss and grief when not experiencing feelings of despair. Understanding grief and the basic communication skills of coaching can benefit anyone, be modeled for children, and taught in schools. Knowing what is common about grief, being present, listening, companioning, guiding, and co-creating rather than giving advice supports other humans in finding their way with better outcomes. We may also feel empowered with tools to respond to whatever happens in our own life.

Grief is individual and those beginning any healing journey may benefit from starting with the beliefs from those who have worked with the most grievers and applying whatever best resonates. Using the skill Cathy developed in healthcare to translate advanced medical specialty expert information into simple terms for non-clinical employees, Cathy simplified information from academic research experts to produce separate grief and coaching modules. The small business module is based on Cathy’s education and experience. The three modules can be studied individually for those who already have expertise in one or two of the topics. She saw the benefits of combining expert grief and coaching information with individual discussion over group training where students may not know what they missed or incorrectly comprehended.

Using technology instead of traveling for education, self-study of quality easy to read concise information, dedicated individual certification hours, self-arranged practice hours to make grief coaching a habit, and optional flexible individual training or practice sessions is convenient, effective, and minimizes program expense. Those certified as a Master Grief Coach receive the business module and any future ongoing module updates free.

Reasons grief education programs are essential include:

  • Experts agree on lack of extensive robust focus on grief education
  • Mental/behavioral health Therapists may enhance and save lives with their extensive education including mental/behavioral disorders but do not have to take grief specific education unless it is included in their specific degree curriculum which varies with each university
  • Some mental/behavioral health Therapists list grief as a specialty without formal grief education
  • Not all mental/behavioral health Therapists have profound grief experience
  • Need for more diverse grief education options in addition to mental/behavioral health therapy
  • Need for central grief theory and therapy information so grievers can easily know all that is available to make decisions best for them
  • Many are unknowingly following grief and healing misinformation from other people
  • The abundance of those already supporting grievers or who want to and desire convenient, affordable, and quality grief education
  • Need for basic grief education and life coaching communication skills, especially for high school students becoming adults are valuable life skills

Grief education options vary. Grievers may be most inspired by working with those who understand grief where they feel the best connection. There is no grief wizard. Grievers may have the best opportunity for healing when they follow their hearts regarding what is best for them, seeking support when needed. Various resources include:

  • Written information
  • Personal relationships
  • Grief support groups
  • Self-styled non-credentialed grief professionals
  • Certified Grief Coaches, Specialists, Practitioners, and Educators
  • Mental/Behavioral Health Therapists. 

Many do not think about or do not know they can ask what grief education and experience any professional has when considering their services. It is in the best interest of a griever to decide on a provider after considering recommendations, profiles, and responses to specific questions. It may be beneficial to learn from multiple resources, discontinuing any that are not helping.

Education

Cathy Cheshire’s education includes eBooks, Kindle, Audible, hardcopy books, textbooks, and articles by top experts. Most significant webinars, videos, workshops, classes, conferences, and in-person training includes:   

College Degree

  • Bachelor of Science Degree, Business & Finance, Arizona State University

Grief and Healing

  • Grief Therapy Intensive Training: Meaning Reconstruction in Loss, Substantial education in the latest research and practice on meaning-oriented grief therapies, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition – Instructors Robert A Neimeyer, PhD, Psychology, Director, and other world-class faculty. Dr. Neimeyer is a scholar, author, speaker, and practicing psychologist. He works to advance a progressive theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. He served as President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling and Chair of the International Work Group for Death, Dying, & Bereavement. In recognition of his contributions, he has been granted the Eminent Faculty Award by the University of Memphis, made a Fellow of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both Association for Death Education and Counseling and the International Network on Personal Meaning. Individual mentoring from faculty.   

Featured Speakers Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD; Edward K. Rynearson, MD; Laurie A. Burke, PhD; Darcy Harris, RN, RSW, PhD, FT; Jakob van Wielink, MA; Lara Krawchuk, MSW, LCSW, MPH; Carolyn Ng, PsyD, FT; Donna L. Schuurman, EdD, FT; Jana DeCristofaro, LCSW; Laura Takacs, LICSW, MPH; Kathy Story, MA, JD; and Carrie Arnold, PhD, M.Ed., RSW, CCC, FT

  • Is it Depression or is it Grief? Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors – Instructors Robert A Neimeyer, PhD, Psychology, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition Director
  • Loss, Grief, and the Quest for Meaning: Understanding how growth can come from grief, despite the emotional challenges that mourning brings, TAPS Institute for Hope and Healing ® – Instructor Robert A Neimeyer, PhD, Psychology
  • The Master Series Trauma Edition: Through their wisdom and guidance, the ways unresolved trauma reverberates through our lives and how we can restore ourselves and our patients to a sense of safety and mental health are explored. Instructors Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Trauma Research Center, Stephen Porges, PhD, Psychiatry, Neurobiologist, Peter Levine, PhD, Psychology
  • Traumatic Grief After Violent Dying – Instructor Ted K. Rynearson, MD, Psychiatry, FAPA, FACP, FRANZCP, Clinical Psychiatrist and Researcher, Mason Clinic Psychiatry Founder, Full-time Clinical Practice, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Research Effects of Violent Death on Family Members Publications, Non-profit The Violent Death Bereavement Society (vdbs.org) Founder 
  • Early Intervention Approaches to Bolster Resilience after Traumatic Loss, Association for Death Education and Counseling – Instructor Alyssa A Rheingold, PhD, Psychiatry, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Professor at the National Crime Victim’s Research and Treatment Center within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, Evidence-based treatment of trauma-related mental health issues, grief and loss, and traumatic loss by homicide
  • Catching Your Breath in Grief: Lessons for the Bereaved, Thinkers, and Caregivers, Association for Death Education and Counseling Conference – Instructor Thomas Attig, PhD, Philosophy, author and well-known international speaker to medical and behavioral providers on death and grief, Philosophy Professor, Association for Death Education and Counseling Past President, The Board of Directors of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement Past Vice-Chair 
  • On Grief and Grieving Certificate of Successful Completion Training for Professionals – Instructor David Kessler, MS, Health Care Administration, Bioethics, one of the world’s foremost experts on healing and loss. He is the author of five bestselling books, including “You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After Breakup, Divorce or Death” with Louise Hay, Co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, PhD, Psychiatry
  • Help for the Healing Heart: The Brain Science of Grief and Loss, One Commune – Instructors David Kessler, MS, Health Care Administration, Bioethics, one of the world’s foremost experts on healing and loss, and Paul Denniston, Grief Yoga
  • Transforming Grief and Loss: Strategies to Help Your Clients Through Major Life Transitions – Instructor Ligia M Hoban, MA, FT, FAAGC, CPC, CHT, Founder of My Meaningful Life, LLC, The Center for Transforming Lives Executive Director, “Transform Your Loss,” “Counseling Hispanics Through Loss, Grief, and Bereavement,” and “Transforming Grief & Loss Workbook: Activities, Exercises & Skills to Coach Your Client Through Life Transitions
  • The six honoring: Guidelines for Going on After the Loss of a Loved One, Open to Hope, Grief Conference – Finding Hope During Uncertain Times – Instructor Ken Druck, PhD, Clinical Psychology
  • Grief as a Mystical Experience – Instructor Terri Daniel, DMin, CT, CCTP, Clinical Chaplain, Certified Trauma Professional, End-of-Life Educator Certified in Death, Dying and Bereavement by the Association of Death Education and Counseling, BA in Religious Studies,  MA in Pastoral Care, DMin Pastoral Care and Counseling, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Author, Founder of the Afterlife Awareness Conference
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Trauma, PTSD, and Grief – Instructor Charles Jacob, PhD, Psychology, is the immediate past president of the Pennsylvania Branch of the American Counseling Association Past President, Licensed Psychologist in Private Practice
  • How Emotions Affect Our Cognitive Functioning – Instructor Gabor Maté, MD, Family Practice, Addiction, Psychology
  • A Return to Wholeness, COMMUNE Online Workshop including recognizing where you are wounded; healing, transforming, and finding peace from past pain; freeing yourself from addictive patterns and behaviors; getting to the root causes of chronic illness; setting more intentional boundaries; and being authentically you — even in a sick society – Instructor Gabor Maté, MD, Family Practice, Addiction, Psychology
  • Person-Centered Emotion-Focused Approach to Grief including recent innovations in models of grief and trauma – Instructor Dale G Larson, PhD, Psychology, Graduate Professor of Counseling Psychology, Clinician and Fulbright Scholar, Award-winning “The Helper’s Journey: Working with People Facing Grief, Loss, and Life-Threatening Illness” Author, Numerous Awards Recipient for End-of-Life Contributions and Training, 2016 Association for Death Education and Counseling Death Educator Award
  • Broken Heart, Broken Spirit, Resilient Soul: Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Grief, Compassionate Friends National Conference – Instructor Mark Keep, MD, Cardiology, Addiction Medicine, Complicated Grief
  • Understanding Grief and Applying Modern Grief Theory: Explores the most prominent grief theories to have emerged from fields of psychology and thanatology, beginning with neurologist Dr. Sigmund Freud and working forward to the most current evidence-based models of grief, TAPS Institute for Hope and Healing ® – Instructors Litsa Williams and Eleanor Haley, Mental Health Professionals with 20+ years of experience in grief and bereavement, Co-founders of “What’s Your Grief”
  • Anxiety in the Wake of Loss: Strategies for Working with The Missing Stage of Grief – Instructor Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC, MS, Clinical Psychology, Author
  • The Me You Can’t See: A Path Forward; Discussions about mental health and emotional well-being journeys and struggles with participants and experts. Created and Hosted by Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey – Advisory Board Members and Instructors: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California surgeon general and founder of Center for Youth Wellness; Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, founder of MISS Foundation and Selah Carefarm; Ken Duckworth, MD and chief medical officer, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); Dr. Vikram Patel, co-founder of Sangath and professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School; Dr. Bruce Perry, senior fellow of Child Trauma Academy; Sue Baker, OBE and global director of Time to Change; Alain de Botton, FRSL and founder of The School of Life; Dr. Pamela Collins, director of Global Mental Health, University of Washington; Dr. Jacqui Dyer, MBE, director of Black Thrive Global and president of Mental Health Foundation; Dr. Dainius Pūras, professor and head of the Centre for Child Psychiatry and Social Pediatrics at Vilnius University; Scott L. Rauch, MD, president, psychiatrist in chief, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Chair of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital; Jo Robinson, associate professor and head of Suicide Prevention Research at Orygen; Shaun Robinson, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand; Dr. Victor Schwartz, clinical associate professor of psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
  • Healing Trauma: Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body – Instructor Peter Levine, PhD, Biophysics and Psychology specializing in trauma, Somatic Experiencing® Founder, a clinical method to resolve trauma symptoms, groundbreaking research focuses on the effects of trauma and stress on the body and nervous system
  • Somatic Approaches to Healing Trauma, Somatopia.com – Instructor Albert Wong, PhD, Clinical and Somatic Psychology
  • The Healing Trauma Summit – Volume 1: Transform Trauma with Advances in Neuroscience, Spiritual Psychology, and Embodied Approaches to Healing, The latest research, and theory on how trauma that still lives in your body needs to be resolved. Instructors Peter Levine, PhD, Psychology; Judith Blackstone, PhD, Psychology, Eastern Religion; Zainab Salbi, Iraqi-American Women’s Rights and Freedom Humanitarian, Entrepreneur, Author, and Media Commentator; Dawson Church, PhD, Natural Medicine, Health Writer, Researcher, Health, Psychology, and Spirituality Author; Elizabeth Rosner, Activist, American Novelist, Nonfiction Author 
  • Trauma Research Foundation Annual International Trauma Conference, Transformative Effects of Mind-altering Substances, Plasticity of the Social Brain How to train Mindfulness, Compassion and Perspectives on the Self, Three Decades in Traumatic Stress, Early-Life Stress, Plasticity, Mindfulness, Polyvagal-informed Therapy, Addiction, and Trauma, Disrupted Caregiving Relationships, Brain and Body, Eliminating Barriers to Access Healing, Peer Counseling, Trauma-Informed Interventions for Youth, Establishing & Regaining Body Awareness

Instructors Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD, *Annita Sawyer, PhD, Anne St Goar, MD, Barbara J. Love, PhD, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Braeden Terpou, PhD, Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, REAT (Registration as an Expressive Arts Therapist), Christine Heim, PhD, Ed Tronick, PhD, Elizabeth Call, PsyD, Francis Guerriero, MA, LICSW, Gregory Meyer, PhD, James W. Hopper, PhD, Licia Sky, Lou Bergholz, Margaret McKinnon, PhD, CPsych, Martin Teicher, MD, PhD, Tania Singer, PhD, Michael Alpert, MD, Michael Mithoefer, MD, Paul Frewen, PhD, CPsych, Philip Wolfson, MD, Richard Schwartz, PhD, Rick Doblin, PhD, Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN, Sherain Haricharan, PhD, Stephen Porges, PhD, Susan Walker, MD, Taruno Steffensen, LADC, CSAT, SEP, Wendy D’Andrea, PhD

  • Healing Trauma with Compassionate Inquiry – Instructors Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD, *Annita Sawyer, PhD, Anne St Goar, MD, Barbara J. Love, PhD
  • Resilience Strategies for Trauma Recovery: A Strength-based Approach to Healing, Sounds True Trauma Skills Summit – Instructor Arielle Schwartz, PhD, Psychology
  • The Wheel of Awareness: A Trauma Recovery Tool for Well-Being, Sounds True Trauma Skills Summit – Instructor Daniel Siegel, MD, Neuropsychiatrist
  • Secrets of Neuroplasticity: A Path to Healing and Happiness, Rewiring Your Brain World Summit – Instructor Daniel Siegel, MD, Neuropsychiatrist
  • Trauma and Addiction, Sounds True Trauma Skills Summit – Instructor Peter A Levine, PhD, Biophysics and Psychology, Founder, Somatic Experiencing 
  • Trauma and Attachment Summit, Hosted by Diane Poole Heller, PhD, Psychology – Instructor Rick Hanson, PhD, Neuro Psychology
  • Bridging from Trauma to Belonging, Sounds True Trauma Skills Summit – Instructor John A Powell, PhD, Law, BA, Psychology
  • Neurofeedback for Developmental Trauma Forum, Trauma Research Foundation – Instructors Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Trauma Research Center, Sebern Fisher, MA, LMH, BCN, Psychotherapy, Neurofeedback, Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Psychiatry
  • Understanding Why People Die by Suicide – Instructor Carla Stumpf-Patton, EdD, Counseling Psychology, LMHC, NCC, FT, CCTP, Surviving Spouse of Marine Sgt. Richard Stumpf, EdD, Education Counseling Psychology, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, Certified Fellow Thanatologist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) Institute for Hope and Healing Suicide Postvention Programs Director
  • Experts Discuss Suicide Prevention Strategies, National Institute of Mental Health – Instructor Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, Psychiatry, Neuroscience; Jane Pearson, PhD, Special Advisor to the NIMH Director on Suicide Research; Stephen O’Connor, PhD, Chief of the Suicide Prevention Research Program in the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research
  • Multiple Losses and Bereavement Overload, Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement – Instructor J. William Worden, PhD, Psychology, ABPP, American Psychological Association Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology in California Academic Appointments
  • The Embodiment Conference
    Mark Walsh, Conference Founder, Honors Degree, Psychology, Embodiment Expert – Session and Instructor: 1) What is embodiment and why does it matter? 2) Embodiment Coaching Mark Walsh, Honours Degree, Psychology, Embodiment Expert; Embodiment Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory Stephen Porges, PhD, Psychiatry, Neurobiologist; Embodying the Mystery: Exploring the Depth of Somatics Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD, Psychology, Strozzi Institute Founder; Compassionate Inquiry Gabor Maté, MD, Family Practice, Addiction, Psychology; The 6 Emotional Styles Alex Howard, BS, Psychology, Therapeutic Coaching Founder and CEO; In an Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness: Mind, Brain, and Body in the Transformation of Trauma Peter A Levine, PhD, Biophysics, Psychology, Somatic Experiencing Founder; The Practice of Embodied Presence in the Only Moment We Ever Have Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, Molecular Biology, Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society Creator; Integral Somatic Psychology Raja Selvam, PhD, Clinical Psychology; Resilient Well-Being Hardwired into Your Brain Rick Hanson, PhD, Neuro Psychology; Embodiment Panel Discussion Alanis Morissette, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Actress, Daniel Siegel, MD, Neuropsychiatry, Gabor Maté, MD, Family Practice, Addiction, Psychology, Peter A Levine, PhD, Biophysics, Psychology, Somatic Experiencing Founder, Richard Schwartz, PhD, Family Therapy; The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Psychology, Neuroscience; An Embodied Life, Mind, and Our Waiting World Alanis Morissette, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Actress, Daniel Siegel, MD, Neuropsychiatry; Self-Transcendence and Servant Leadership Albert Wong, PhD, Clinical and Somatic Psychology
  • Healing Collective Trauma in Communities, Harvard Medical School – Instructors Bala Subramaniam, MD, MPH, Meditation Programs Creator for patients and providers; Thomas Hübl, Founder, Academy of Inner Science, Collective Trauma Healing Specialist, Integrates the essence of the great traditions of wisdom with scientific knowledge and his own personal experience.
  • Healing Collective Trauma Series: Collective Trauma in Our World Today, Collective Healing for Deep Wisdom, Building Community Coherence and Resilience – Instructor Thomas Hübl, Founder, Academy of Inner Science
  • Collective Trauma Summit: The Power of Collective Healing – Instructors Thomas Hübl, Founder, Academy of Inner Science; Stephen Porges, PhD, Psychiatry, Neurobiologist; Rick Hanson, PhD, Neuro Psychology, Terry Real, LICSW, Family Therapist, The Relational Life Institute Founder, Author; Mark Wolynn, MFA, Psychology, The Family Constellation Institute Director; Daniel Siegel, MD, Neuropsychiatrist; Karine Bell, Somatic Therapist, Mindfulness & Trauma Educator; Alex Howard, BS, Psychology, Therapeutic Coaching Founder & CEO, Lissa Rankin, MD, Whole Health Medicine, Gabor Maté, MD, Family Practice, Addiction, Psychology
  • It Doesn’t Hurt as Much Anymore, Now What Do I Do? Instructor Bob Baugher, PhD, Psychology, Bob Baugher, Highline Community College Psychology and Death Education Professor, LivingWorks Suicide Intervention Trainer
  • Finding Self Compassion: Discover How to Treat Yourself with Compassion on Your Grief Journey – Instructor Tanya Lord, MPH, PhD, Clinical and Population Health Research, Past Special Education Teacher, Medical Staff and Student Effective Before and After Patient Medical Error Communication from Personal and Professional Experiences Presentation and Workshop Speaker, The Grief Toolbox Co-founder
  • Finding Your Direction Again: Explore Choices Along the Journey and Discover Paths That Lead to a Life You Love – Instructor Glen Lord Boston University Marketing and Operations Management Degree Graduate, National Compassionate Friends Board of Directors Past President, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Presenter and Workshop Leader, International Grief Institute Co-founder and CEO, The Grief Toolbox Co-founder
  • Grief-Reiki: Learn to Balance the Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical Components of Grief – Instructor Sharon Ehlers, Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Reiki Master, Certified Master Grief Coach, Death Midwife, Books: Grief Reiki®, Grief Diaries Co-author & Contributor
  • Love Life After Loss: Learn to Move Beyond Grief and Give Yourself Permission to Embrace Life’s Second Act – Instructor Robin Chodak, Certified Grief, Life, and Spiritual Coach, Master NLP Practitioner, Reiki Practitioner, Best-selling Author, Host on Transformation TV  
  • Healing in Grief and Beyond: Explore the Five Facets that Support You in Active Grief and Beyond – Instructor Annah Elizabeth, The Five Facets Philosophy on Healing™ Founder and Creator, Author, Speaker including TEDx, Intuitive, and Healing Specialist™, National Radio Programs Guest, Local Hospital Guest Lecturer, Dually Certified Energy Therapy Practitioner, Master-Instructor Level IET®, Certified Medical Reiki Master  
  • Proactive Grieving with Heart: Discover tools and insight on how to become an intentional survivor by using the power of your own vulnerability as a catalyst for resiliency and turning loss into legacy – Instructor Mitch Carmody, GSP, CCP, Writer, Artist, Grief Educator, and a Nationally Recognized Motivational Speaker, MrHeartlight YouTube channel, “Grief Chat” Radio Show Host, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) Grief Facilitator, National Board of Directors for The Compassionate Friends Past Member
  • Honoring Secondary Grief: Learn to Turn Loss into Legacy and Use Your Own Vulnerability as a Catalyst for Growth – Instructor Shelby Forsythia, “Permission to Grieve” Author, “Coming Back: Conversations on Life After Loss” Podcast Host, Grief Student and Educator, Reiki Level II Practitioner, Intuitive Grief Guide, Work Featured on Huffington Post, Bustle, and Oprah Magazine
  • Grief Keynote Speaker, Compassionate Friends National Conference – Instructor Basia Mosinski, MB, MFA, Mind, Body, & Spiritual Alignment Coach, The Compassionate Friends Newport Beach Chapter founder and leader. 
  • Men Explaining How Men Grieve to Women, Compassionate Friends National Conference – A panel of men experienced healing from grief answering questions from an audience of women.
  • Love After Loss for Men: The joy of finding love again, complex feelings, continuing bonds, moving forward, challenges when children are involved, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) – Instructor Justin Yopp, PhD, Clinical Psychology, Warren Pellegrin, USMC Veteran, TAPS Peer Mentor; Father and Bereaved Spouse since 2001
  • Understanding Narcissism Summit, A groundbreaking online event from Sounds True addressing one of the major challenges today. Hosts Tami Simon, Founder of Sounds True, a multi-media publisher and Jeffrey Rutstein, PsyD, trauma specialist – Top expert instructors in the field include Ramani Durvasula, PhD, W. Keith Campbell, PhD, Terri Cole, LCSW, MSW, Abdul Saad, MPsych, Craig Malkin, PhD, Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv, Sandy Hotchkiss, PsyD, LCSW, Caroline Myss, Emily Bebenek, Judith Orloff, MD, Karla McLaren, MEd, AH Almaas, Bonnie Duran, DrPH, Rick Hanson, PhD, Satinder Brar, MSc, RP, CCC, Rhonda Freeman, PhD, Jeff Pincus, MSW, LCSW, Kristin Neff, PhD, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
  • Ageing, Ageism, and Care: Exploring the Needs of Families and Elders, Examine the losses associated with aging using current bereavement theory and practice , Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement – Instructor Darcy L Harris, RN, RSW, PhD, Psychology, Thanatology, Health Science, FT, Associate Professor, Thanatology Coordinator, King’s University College, London, Canada, Change, Loss, and Transition Clinical Practice, Senior Faculty, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, Death, Dying, and Bereavement Author and Speaker 
  • End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation, Exploring dying and palliative care practice around the world and evaluating new trends and ideas surrounding end of life care issues, Future Learn – Instructors Marian Krawczyk, David Clark, and Naomi Richards, University of Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow
  • Ten Things You Can Do to Change Your Life: Down the Road in Your Grief Journey, Compassionate Friends National Conference – Instructors Gloria Horsley, PhD, Psychology and Heidi Horsley, PsyD, Psychology, Open to Hope
  • A Great Age Reboot: You get to change your family history and can reverse the damaging effects of stress – Instructor Michael F Roizen, MD, Internal Medicine, Chief Wellness Officer, Cleveland Clinic, Award-winning Best-selling Author, Paul G. Rogers National Library of Medicine for Best Medical Communicator Award
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Demystified, Presented by TAPS – Instructor Howard Lipke, PhD, Clinical Psychology, Editorial Board Member, EMDR Journal of Practice and Research

Sensitive and Empath

  • The Empaths Survival Guide 8-week Intensive Online Course, Strategies to conquer the challenges of being sensitive and an empath
  • Techniques to Protect Your Energy & Strengthen Intuition, Facebook event
  • Keys to Being a Healthy Empath, Shift Network – Instructor Judith Orloff, MD, Psychiatry, Best-selling Author, specializes in treating empaths and sensitive people in her Los Angeles based private practice. 
  • Empath Academy created specifically for empaths includes strategies and step-by-step instructions – Instructor Michael R Smith, PhD, noted self-help author Smith has been a global leader in the field of personal growth and transformation for over two decades. He is an author and works to help empaths and highly sensitive people recognize and embrace their gifts. He is a doctorally trained counselor, former energy medicine practitioner, and spiritual medium. He has personally coached several thousand individuals to make stronger connections between mind, body, and Spirit. 
  • Healing into Wholeness: Intuition as the greatest gift to healing – Instructor Christine Page, MD, Holistic Doctor, Best-selling Author
  • How Do I Stop Feeling My Loved Ones’ Painful Emotions? Set Me Free! – Instructor Wendy Nickerson, PhD, Psychology, Speaker, Author, Founder of Nickerson Institute of Integrative Health Training
  • How Do I Stop Feeling My Loved Ones’ Painful Emotions? – Instructor Divi Chandna, MD, Family Mind-Body Medicine, Author, Speaker
  • The Challenges and Rewards of Being Sensitive: Turning Your Empathic Gifts into Your Greatest Strengths – Instructor Julie Bjelland, Psychotherapist, Author, Highly Sensitive People Expert
  • Consciousness, Empathy, Worldview, and Transformation: How we deal with empathy is affected by culture, life experiences, and worldview – Instructor Shariff Abdullah, BA, Psychology, JD, Law
  • Repairing Energetic Boundaries: Strengthening Your Sense of Self – Instructor Wendy De Rosa, International Intuitive Energy Healer, Speaker, Teacher, Author
  • Healing for Empaths & Sensitives Your Sense of Self – Instructor Dave Markowitz, Best-selling Author, Intuitive Healing Facilitator
  • Being an Empath is Your Superpower! – Instructor Anita Moorjani, Best-selling Author, International Speaker, World-renowned Cancer/Near-death experience Survivor

Mindfulness and Meditation

  • Master Mindfulness Practitioner Training Course Certificate – Instructor Kain Ramsey, International Best-selling Multidisciplinary Trainer, NLP, CBT, mindfulness, hypnotherapy, and life coaching
  • Mindfulness Meditation Immersive Learning Experience: Opening to Our Lives – Instructor Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, Molecular Biology, Retired Professor of Medicine, Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine Creator, Internationally Known Scientist, Writer, and Meditation Teacher bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society
  • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing, the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society – Instructor David A Treleaven, PhD, Psychology, Writer, Educator, Trauma Professional, Intersection of Mindfulness, Trauma, and Social Justice focus, Visiting Brown University Scholar
  • Mindfulness & Grief: Self-Compassion as Self-Care, ADEC
  • Mindfulness in Uncertain Times, Association for Death Education and Counseling – Instructor Heather Stang, MA, Thanatology, Mindfulness Speaker, Author
  • Medical Mindfulness for Brain Health – Instructor Romie Mushtaq, MD, Neurology, Integrative Medicine, ABIHM

Thought and Emotion

  • Private Group Membership, Resource Library with Audio, Video, and Articles, Monthly Live Video Chat Conference Calls – Instructor Bruce H Lipton, PhD, Neurobiology, Internationally Recognized Leader Bridging Science and Spirit, Bestselling author of “The Biology of Belief” revealing how science is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between thoughts, emotion, and the physical body. 
  • Learning and Applying “The Formula” to arrive in the perfect state to begin change with extensive teaching followed by a guided meditation, Livestream from Portland, Oregon – Instructor Joe Dispenza, DC, PhD, Chiropractic, Neuroscience, Chiropractor, Best-selling Author, International Lecturer, Researcher, Corporate Consultant
  • Your Happiness Genes: Harnessing the Power of Positive Psychology and Epigenetics for Your Health and Wellbeing – Instructor Dawson Church, PhD, is a health writer and researcher. He is an award-winning author whose best-selling book The Genie in Your Genes (YourGeniousGenes.com) has been hailed by reviewers as a breakthrough in linking emotions and genetics. His follow-up title, Mind to Matter, (MindToMatter.com) reviews the science of peak mental states. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (NIIH.org) to promote groundbreaking new treatments. He shares how to apply the breakthroughs of energy psychology to health and personal performance through EFT Universe (EFTUniverse.com), one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web
  • The Relational Brain: The Neurobiology of Relational Life Therapy and How it Works to Rewire Your Brain – Instructors Terry Real, LICSW, Family Therapist, The Relational Life Institute Founder, Author, Juliane Taylor Shore, MA, LPC S, LMFT S, SEP, Mental Health Counseling, Daniel Siegel, MD, Neuropsychiatrist, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Psychology, Neuroscience, Peter Levine, PhD, Biophysics, Psychology, Somatic Experiencing Founder, Diane Poole Heller, PhD, Psychology
  • What we can learn from the New Science of Flourishing and Suffering, Why Viktor Frankl’s Cure is Essential, International Network on Personal Meaning, Instructor Paul T. P. Wong, PhD, CPsych, Psychology
  • The Neuroscience of How Trauma Works & How to Minimize Yourself from Trauma, Mental Mastery 30 Day Challenge, The Flourishing Center – Instructor Emiliya Ahivotovskaya, PhD, Mind-body Connection, MA, Positive Psychology
  • Health and Your Brain, The Sacred Science of Sound – Instructor Daniel Levitin, PhD, Psychology, Neuroscientist
  • Memory Rescue: Understanding BRIGHT MINDS risk factors affecting brain health and how it’s never too late to improve and Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind – Instructor Daniel G Amen, MD, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Best-selling Author
  • Doc Childre’s HeartMath Method: Five Steps to Total Calm, Confidence, and Creativity – Instructor Howard Martin, HeartMath Leader
  • Master’s Program – The Science of Self-Empowerment: Cellular Consciousness, Heart Intelligence, and The New Human Story – Instructors Bestselling Author, Scientist & Visionary Gregg Braden, Best-selling Author & Bruce Lipton, PhD, Neurobiology, Howard Martin, HeartMath Leader,  Deborah Rozman, PhD, Psychology

  • Jennifer McLean’s Healing with the Masters Summit, Wisdom and techniques needed to finally break free of subconscious blocks holding you back from creating the life you want and the happiness you deserve, The Shift Network – Instructors Jennifer McLean, Lisa Nichols, Jack Canfield, Mary A Hall, Sonia Ricotti, Eileen McKusick, Marianne Williamson, Colette Baron-Reid, Jarrad Hewett, Dee Wallace, Dawn Clark, Ram Dass, Raghu Markus, Marci Shimoff, Marie Diamond, Dr Sue Morter, Christy Whitman, Anita Moorjani, Donna Eden, Deborah Wayne, Emmanuel Dagher

  • Epigenetic Performance Coaching, Health Coach Certification Options Summit – Instructor Melissa Grill-Petersen, DC, MS, BCHH, Chiropractic, Holistic Health
  • Ho’oponopono Practitioner Certification Course, A Hawaiian Spiritual technique for Healing and Clearing – Instructors Joe Vitale, PhD, Marketing, Metaphysics, Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD, Special Education & Educational Psychology

Extraordinary Experiences

  • Beyond the Veil Summit: Near-Death Experiences, Mediumship, and the Science of the Afterlife, The Shift Network – Session and Instructor: Why We Must Grieve to Heal Bernadette Pleasant; The Emotional Institute LLC Founder and CEO; Near-Death Experiences as a Catalyst for Humanity’s Transformation Eban Alexander III, MD, Neurosurgery; Divine Guidance from Beings of Light and the Power of Connection Ingrid Honkala, PhD, Philosophy, Scientist, Author; Soul Memory as You Evolve: Your Soul Origin & Life Intentions Linda Backman, PhD Psychology, Author; From the Cosmic to the Subatomic: Scientific Basis for Soul, Spirit, and Afterlife Mark Anthony, JD, Law and Metaphysics, Spiritualist; We Were Made To Experience The Extraordinary Nicole Gruel, PhD, Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, Author; My Near-Death Experience at the Akashic Record and Beyond Norma Edwards, DDiv, Doctor of Divinity, Certified NLP Life Coach; Thinking about the Afterlife: A New Breakthrough Raymond A Moody Jr, MD, Psychiatry, PhD, Philosophy, Psychology; The Preponderance of the Evidence Suzanne Giesemann, Medium, Mystic, Previous US Navy Commander; 40-years Understanding Near-Death Experiences: My Journey Yvonne Kason, MD, Family Practice and Psychotherapy; Into the Light: Creating a Graceful Death and Transfer of Consciousness William Bloom, PhD, Philosophy, Author
  • Hugs from Heaven: The Phenomenon Known as After-death communication – Instructor Lynda Cheldelin Fell, International Best-selling author, AlyBlue Media, Founder, Grief Diaries Radio Host, National Grief & Hope Convention Host, International Grief Institute Founder, Certified Critical Incident Stress Management Educator, 30+ Navigating Loss and Finding Hope Author, Five National Literary Awards 
  • Signs from Heaven, Compassionate Friends National Conference – Instructor Christine Duminiak, After-Death Communication Expert, Author, Speaker

Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping

  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Tapping Pro Practitioner Certificate – Instructor Graham Nichols, professional coach, author, and expert in human behavioral patterns
  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping World Summit 2015 – Instructor Nick Ortner, CEO of The Tapping Solution, LLC and Jessica Ortner, Producer
  • Quantum Tapping Course: Combining the Emotional Freedom Technique, Manifestation, Intention, and Positive Affirmations – Instructor Garland Landrith, PhD, Psychology
  • How EFT Helps Clients, Neuroscience & EFT, Integrating EFT into Your Practice, ACEP Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology – Instructor Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP, Psychology
  • Introduction to Acupuncture Meridians, ACEP Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology – Instructor Michael Galvin, PhD, DCEP, Clinical and Health Psychologist
  • Energy Psychology Conference,  ACEP Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology
  • Energy Healing Masterclass, Hay House – Instructors included some of today’s top names in different energy healing modalities, Donna Eden, Margaret Lynch Raniere, Donna Eden, David Feinstein, Mona Lisa Schulz, MD, PhD, Dougall Fraser, Anodea Judith, PhD, Rajshree Patel, Dawson Church, PhD, Kelsey Patel

HAVENING TECHNIQUES®

  • Self-Havening: Healing in your hands, Changing the way the world heals – Instructor Steven Ruden, DMD, Dental Surgery, Coach, Hypnotherapist

Coaching and Therapy

  • Certified Life Coach – Instructor Michael J Duckett, DC, Chiropractic, JD, Law, World-renowned Social Scientist, Psychology, The International Coaching Science Research Institute is a leader in Life Coach Training and Certification since 1996, Over 5,000 Life Coach Certifications
  • The Power of Embodied Transformation, Somatic Coaching is a transformative life-affirming emergent process that organizes emotional, social, and spiritual commitments towards embodiment and fulfillment. Making lasting changes with coaching clients. Coaches Rising, Approved by International Coach Federation – Workshops: The Art of Somatic Coaching& the Power of Embodied Transformation; Somatic Literacy: Facilitating Somatic Awareness; Commitments: Setting our True North with Clients; Conditioned Tendency: Understanding How Clients Get Stuck; Sites of Shaping: Integrating a Clients’ Social Context into Coaching; Resilience; Somatic Opening; Connection: Resource and Outcome on the Arc of Transformation; Developing Embodiment; Designing & Deepening Practice; Using the Arc of Transformation as an Assessment Tool; Bridging Embodiment, Trauma, and the Art of Coaching; Keeping Clients Safe: Potential Pitfalls of Body-Based Attention in Coaching; Communicating Effectively with Your Client’s Thinking & Survival Brains; Polyvagal Theory in Coaching; Trauma-sensitive coaching for Inclusivity and Belonging; The Body Keeps the Score; Trauma & Somatic Experiencing

Integration Workshop – Instructors include the world’s leading experts and practitioners in the field of embodied transformation and coaching. Alta Starr, Somatic Coach & Bodyworker, Senior Teacher, Strozzi Institute; Amanda Blake, PhD, Management, Certified Master Somatic Leadership Coach; Peter A Levine, PhD, Biophysics & Psychology, Founder, Somatic Experiencing; Bessel van der Kolk, PhD, Psychiatry, Founder, The Trauma Center; David A Treleaven, PhD, Psychology; Elizabeth Stanley, PhD, International Speaker and Trainer, Author; Nathaniel Shara, LCSW, Somatic Therapist; Nicholas Janni, BA, Drama, Peak Performance Presence Founder and Director; Richard Strozzi- Heckler, PhD, Psychology, Founder, Strozzi Institute; Rhonda V Magee, MA, Sociology, JD, Law, International Speaker, Author; Staci Haines, Somatic Coach and Trainer, Founder, Generative Somatics; Stephen Porges, PhD, Psychiatry, Polyvagal Theory Pioneer; Doug Silsbee, Presence-Based Coaching, Leadership, Resilience, Author

  • Inside Coaching: Self-study coaching program to step inside the master’s workshop, Entering the magic of the transformational encounter itself, Coaches Rising, Approved by the International Coach Federation – Instructors include the world’s leading experts and practitioners in the field of embodied transformation and coaching. Amanda Blake, PhD, Management, Certified Master Somatic Leadership Coach; Beatrice W Hansen, MS, Social Work, Therapist, Certified Presence-Based® & Somatic Coach, Leadership Coach; Beena Sharma, Vertical Development Academy Founder and President; Jennifer Garvey Berger, EdD, EdM, Teaching and Learning, Leadership Coach; Jim Dethmer, Conscious Leadership Group Co-Founder, Coach, Speaker, Author; Peter Hawkins, PhD, Organization Behavior, Coaching Trainer/Consultant, Author; Rick Hanson, PhD, Neuro Psychology; Staci Haines, Somatic Coach and Trainer, Founder, Generative Somatics; Steve March, Certified Somatic and Integral Coach, Aletheia Founder and Coach; Thomas Hübl, Academy of Inner Science Founder; Wendy Palmer, Conscious Embodiment, Leadership Embodiment Founder
  • Grief Therapy Intensive Training: Meaning Reconstruction in Loss, Substantial education in the latest research and practice on meaning-oriented grief therapies, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition – Instructors Robert A Neimeyer, PhD, Psychology, Director, and other world-class faculty. 
  • Certified Mental Health First Aid USA: A national program managed, operated, and disseminated by the National Council for Behavioral Health. Teaches skills to provide initial help and support to the signs of mental illness, substance use, or crisis. – Instructor Reverend Karell T McDaniel, LICDC-CS is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, 30+ Years Clinical Supervisor, Successful Author
  • Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Training Course Certificate – Instructor Kain Ramsey, International Best-selling Multidisciplinary Trainer, NLP, CBT, mindfulness, hypnotherapy, and life coaching
  • Successful Strategies to Make First Client Sessions Great, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine – Course Director Ruth Buczynski, PhD, Psychology, NICABM Founder and President; Top expert instructors sharing insights and strategies include Lynn Lyons, LICSW; Ron Siegel, PsyD, Ellyn Bader, PhD; Rick Hanson, PhD; Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT; Marsha Linehan, PsyD; Kelly McGonigal, PhD; Joan Borysenko, PhD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Shelly Harrell, PhD; Dan Siegel, MD; Richard Schwartz, PhD; Stephen Porges, PhD; Christine Padeksy, PhD; Zindel Segal, PhD; Sue Johnson, EdD; Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MGT
  • Motivational Interviewing: The Heart of Recovery Coaching, Net Institute Center for Addiction & Recovery Education, International Association of Professional Recovery Coaches –Instructor William R Miller, PhD, Psychology and Psychiatry, Past Director of Clinical Training for The University of New Mexico’s American Psychological Association Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Co-Director of UNM’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions, Recipient of Several Research Awards, Pastoral Counseling, Integration of Spirituality with Psychology 
  • Healing Through Listening, Insight Seminars, United Kingdom – Instructor Mary Ann Somerville, MSS, Spiritual Science, Certified Neuroscience Coach
  • Re-evaluation Counseling Fundamentals: A process whereby people of all ages and all backgrounds can learn how to exchange effective help with each other to free themselves from the effects of past distress experiences. (5 of 9 classes) – Instructor Ally Nathaniel, EQ Expert, Best-selling Author, Speaker
  • Becoming a Teacher of Presence, Integrating guidance into healing work – Instructor Eckhart Tolle, Spiritual Teacher, Author of the New York Times bestseller “The Power of Now” and the highly acclaimed follow-up “A New Earth” which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time
  • Teaching the Teachers: Designed for Yoga and Meditation Teachers, Spiritual Leaders, Life Coaches, and Therapists who educate, inspire, heal, and nourish – Instructor Marianne Williamson, New York Times Best-selling Author, Spiritual Thought Leader, Dynamic Public Speaker 
  • Becoming an Intuitive Healer: An in-depth four-day professional development course for Healthcare Practitioners and The Empaths Survival Guide 8-week Intensive Online Course, Strategies to conquer the challenges of being sensitive and an empath – Instructor Judith Orloff, MD, Psychiatry, Best-selling Author, is transforming the face of psychiatry and asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal and prevent illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care. She is proving that the links between physical, emotional, and spiritual health can’t be ignored.
  • Grow Your Virtual Coaching Practice Challenge: Coaches, Consultants & Practitioners, Learn Directly from the World’s Top Online Experts, Hosted by James Mel, Co-founder of the Virtual Coach™ Training and Certification System – Instructor T Harv Eker, Businessman, Motivational Speaker, Author
  • How to Coach a Success Mind-Set: Using stories to teach; Principles needed for success; Creating an action plan for your optimal performance zone – Instructor Jack Canfield, MEd, Psychological Education, Success Coach, Author, Speaker
  • Compassion Fatigue Certification for Healthcare, Professional Education Systems Institute – Instructor Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD, C-IAYT

BusineSS

  • Cathy Cheshire, BS, Business, 30 Years Healthcare Business Experience Including CEO, Consultant, Leadership Coach, Behavioral Helpline Director of Operations
  • Grow Your Virtual Coaching Practice Challenge: Coaches, Consultants & Practitioners, Learn Directly from the World’s Top Online Experts, Hosted by James Mel, Co-founder of the Virtual Coach™ Training and Certification System
  • Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson Publishers Former Chairman and CEO, Book “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World
  • Hay House Publishing Writer’s Workshop Top Experts and Best-selling Authors – Instructors Deepak Chopra, MD, Internal Medicine; Gabrielle Bernstein, Motivational Speaker; Gregg Braden, Scientist, Visionary, Speaker, Best-selling Author; Kris Carr, Wellness Activist; Lynne McTaggart, Lecturer, Journalist; Marianne Williamson, Spiritual Thought Leader, Dynamic Public Speaker; Michael Neill, Internationally Renowned Transformative Coach; Mike Dooley, Speaker, Entrepreneur; Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution CEO; Reid Tracy, Hay House President and CEO

Speaking Engagements

  • Journeys of Hope Healing & Health Cruise Speaker – Strengthening Resilience, Discover How to Design a Fresh Life Action Plan after Loss
  • Compassionate Friends Speaker – Thriving After Loss and Extraordinary Lessons Learned After Loss
  • Exploring The Seasons of Life by Cynthia Macmillan
    I am grateful for connecting with Cynthia MacMillan on her podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. Each week Cynthia interviews coaches, spiritual explorers, and celebrants from all walks of life about beginnings, endings + the messy bits in between. Self-love, well-being, and mindset are at the heart of the conversations because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well. “Thank you for being an amazing guest!” – Cindy
  • Motherless Moms Virtual Retreat by Suzy Finnefrock – Surviving to Thriving with Grief in the Open, Virtual Retreat for Motherless Moms. I joined a dozen speakers to lovingly bring into the light and support motherless moms by sharing stories from the heart and providing empowering suggestions. I greatly admire Suzy Finnefrock, for hosting a retreat specifically for motherless moms to cultivate self-compassion for their experience and journey of grief. Now, more than ever, we need to listen to our soul’s desires of what is yearning to be released and to heal what needs to be healed so we can live life inspired. “Every woman on this planet has the right to feel empowered and hopeful to create a life they want – however that may look for them. Your story illuminates a path out of sorrow, a path through grief that leads to joy, hope, and possibility.  I really appreciate the time you took to sit with me. Your willingness to share openly revealed so many points of connection for me. I know that every listener will find their own points of connection with your story as well.” – Suzy
  • Grief Chat with Mitch Carmody “Mr Heartlight” – Mitch Carmody, GSP, CCP, Artist, Author, Grief Educator, and Motivational Speaker, hosts his own Radio Show called “Grief Chat” on KDWA live from Hastings, Minnesota.
  • Open To Hope by Drs Gloria and Heidi Horsley – Dr. Gloria Horsley is an internationally recognized grief expert, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is the founder and president of OpenToHope.com, the world’s largest multi-media web-based resource for the bereaved. Dr Gloria co-hosts with her daughter Dr Heidi Horsley, award-winning cable television and radio shows. Dr Gloria Horsley dedicates her work to her deceased son, Scott.
  • Walking Into New Now by Cortne Lee Smith – Cortne Lee Smith is a Master Relationship Mechanic Coach and Grief Strategist. Cathy talks about becoming empowered by learning how my mind and emotions work together propelled me to love life again after loss.
  • Coming Back by Shelby Forsythia – Shelby Forsythia is an Intuitive Grief Guide and host of the podcast “Coming Back: Conversations on Life After Loss.” Cathy and Shelby discuss changing your mind about grief. Cathy talks about how loss challenged her to develop mindfulness. She believes grievers can heal themselves when given the right tools. She shares what it feels like to be punished for telling the truth and how grief work is essentially a practice of “giving people back to themselves.” 
  • Intentional Beings Podcast by Omar M Makram – Omar Makram is the bestselling author of “Transcending the Maya Matrix” which is the illusion of reality. Cathy talks with Omar about how what he explains in his book is how she learned to thrive after loss.
  • Grief And Healing Corner by Sharon Ehlers – After working in Corporate America, Sharon started her own company to offer a multi-dimensional approach to grief through emotional recovery and spiritual healing. Now an award-winning Author, Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist®, and Reiki Master Teacher, she is helping others to heal and recover from grief by providing them with a safe, compassionate, and healing environment for their journey. Cathy talks with Sharon about her unimaginable losses and what she did to heal and then thrive. 
  • Am Healing My Soul TV by Vicki Mcclifty – Vicki is a Life Artist / Coach with Vicki McClifty Coaching and host of AM Healing My Soul TV. She knows there is far more to life, to existence than we can ever imagine. We are all vibrational beings sharing this life experience. Our souls are eternal. Let us learn to nurture the gift of life which brings us the freedom to explore fearlessly, and ultimately brings us joy. Cathy talks with Vicki about how she learned to thrive after loss.
  • Holiday Tools by Justina Gioia – Justina Gioia is an expertly trained Sex, Love & Relationship coach. 6 grief experts, including Cathy Cheshire, share their best tools to help those grieving during the holiday season.

AssociationS Researched

  • Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology  EnergyPsych.org
  • Association for Death Education and Counseling  ADEC.org
  • Australian Center for Grief and Bereavement  Grief.Org.au
  • International Association of Animal Hospice & Palliative Care  IAAHPC.org
  • International Network on Personal Meaning Meaning.ca
  • National Alliance for Grieving Children ChildrenGrieve.org
  • Somatic (Body) Experiencing Trauma Institute TraumaHealing.org
  • The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education ContemplativeMind.org
  • The Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement  APLB.org
  • The American Academy of Bereavement  AAB.Wildapricot.org
  • Bruce H Lipton, PhD Private Group Membership BruceLipton.com/Membership – An internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit, bestselling author of “The Biology of Belief” revealing how science is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between thoughts, emotion, and the physical body. 

OrganizationS Researched

  • Academy of Inner Science aims to connect the wisdom of the inner world with the knowledge of the outer world. The Academy offers training modules, workshops, study groups, and facilitation training. Founder Thomas Hübl, is a spiritual teacher whose work integrates insights of the great wisdom traditions with the discoveries of contemporary science that address trauma and shadow issues.  ThomasHuebl.com/AcademyInnerScience
  • Center for Loss is led by Alan D Wolfelt, PhD, Psychology, Social Science, Center for Loss and Life Transition Founder and Director. It is an organization dedicated to helping people who are grieving and those who care for them with resources. CenterForLoss.com
  • Child Trauma Academy (CTA) is a Community of Practice working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research, and education. By creating biologically informed child and family respectful practice, programs and policy, CTA seeks to help maltreated and traumatized children. ChildTrauma.org
  • Dying Matters is a coalition of individual and organizational members across England and Wales, which aims to help people talk more openly about dying, death and bereavement, and to make plans for the end of life. DyingMatters.org 
  • Emerging Minds is dedicated to advancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of Australian infants, children, adolescents, and their families. They develop mental health evidence-based policy, services, interventions, training, programs, and free resources in response to the needs of professionals, children, and their families. Emergingminds.com.au
  • ENDWELL Project is a movement to transform the end of life into a human-centered experience. EndWellProject.org
  • Global Grief Support trains local community-based peer counselors who know the culture and who will remain after a natural disaster to provide ongoing grief support. GlobalGriefSupport.org
  • Good Grief in Australia has programs and training designed to help children, young people, and adults understand and attend well to their grief following change and loss experiences. GoodGrief.org.au
  • Grief Dreams by Dr Joshua Black, GriefDreams.com
  • Growth Coaching International is committed to working collaboratively with clients, sharing practitioner-focused, impactful, research-informed, and practical coaching skills within a positive and empathetic environment for personal, professional, and organizational improvement. GrowthCoaching.com.au
  • Havening Techniques® is a neuroplasticity method, which is designed to change the brain to de-traumatize the memory and remove its negative effects from both our psyche and body. Part of its protocol uses the sensory input of human touch as a therapeutic tool. Havening.org
  • Heal For Life Foundation supports survivors to heal and have hope that they can be free of the pain of their childhood. They have collaborated and learned from thousands of survivors about research-based methods, strategies, and tools that work best.  Their innovative recovery model T.R.E.E (Trust, Release, Empower, Educate) is based on the latest research in the neurobiology of trauma. HealForLife.com.au
  • Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) is a trusted source of information on end of life, hospice care and grief. HospiceFoundation.org
  • International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement (IWG) is a non-profit organization, supporting leaders in the field of death, dying, and bereavement in their efforts to stimulate and enhance innovative ideas, research, and practice. IWGDDB.com
  • Mental Health First Aid is managed, operated, and disseminated by the National Council for Behavioral Health and the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues. MentalHealthFirstAid.org
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) envisions a world where mental illnesses are prevented and cured and has a mission to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure. NIMH.NIH.gov
  • Nour Foundation explores meaning and commonality in human experience by adopting a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to the study of principles and values that universally engender greater understanding, tolerance, and unity among human beings worldwide. NourFoundation.com
  • Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health has the vision to improve well-being and quality of life for individuals and communities who experience trauma. Their mission is to be an international leader in building the capability of individuals, organizations, and the community to understand, prevent, and recover from the adverse mental health effects of trauma. PhoenixAustralia.org
  • Portland Institute for Loss and Transition offers international, interdisciplinary training for therapists, counselors, social workers, life coaches, chaplains, and others who work alongside people striving to reconstruct their lives, drawing on contemporary theory and research.  PortlandInstitute.org
  • Psychotherapy and Counseling Journal of Australia is an international, peer-reviewed journal that aims to contribute to the evidence-base for counseling and psychotherapy. PACJA publishes theoretical essays, experiential reports, and empirical studies featuring quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches. PACJA.org.au
  • Resilience Research Centre led by Dr. Michael Ungar collaborates on research with various worldwide institutions to explore resilience across cultures with a focus on children and youth while providing tools and training in the form of workshops and conferences. The Centre has built a world-renowned resource hub of resilience expertise and tools to support young people, families, and communities. ResilienceResearch.org
  • Starr Commonwealth is driven to empower professionals to build resilience in children, families, and communities across the world through online education, in-person training and coaching, and direct behavioral health services. Includes the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC). STARR.org
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation, SAMHSA.gov
  • The Center for Complicated Grief is dedicated to improving the lives of people suffering from complicated grief by helping clinicians and the public learn how to recognize complicated grief. ComplicatedGrief.Columbia.edu
  • The National Foundation for Grieving Children Teens and Families has a mission to help provide grief counseling and bereavement support services to children and teens who have experienced the loss of a parent or loved one, regardless of the circumstances of the death. ALittleHope.org 
  • The National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (NIIH) is a leading-edge nonprofit dedicated to therapies, research, and education in the fields of Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology. NIIH.org
  • Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute (JRI) provides comprehensive services to local traumatized children and adults. It also offers training, consultation, and education for post-graduate mental health professionals. TraumaCenter.org
  • Trauma Research Foundation is a non-profit Doing Business as the Trauma Center, organized to promote clinical, scientific, and educational projects. They are dedicated to an integrative approach to developing treatments for traumatized children and adults, research, and training postdoctoral students. TraumaResearchFoundation.org
  • US Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD is the world’s leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD and traumatic stress. PTSD.VA.gov
  • Violent Death Bereavement Society serves as a centralized forum of information and training for service providers of loved ones and family members after a violent death. VDBS.org

Advisors, Coaches, and Mentors

  • Sharon Ehlers – Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Reiki Master, Certified Master Grief Coach, Death Midwife, Books: Grief Reiki®, Grief Diaries Co-Author & Contributor, Grief-Reiki.com
  • Anissa Picard – M.A. Teaching, Online French Instructor, Certified Master Grief Coach, End-of-Life Doula, Reiki Master, Writer, Speaker, Staff Member of Family-Owned Funeral Home, State Tested Nurse Aide, AnissaPicard.com
  • Darcy L Harris, RN, RSW, PhD, Psychology, Thanatology, Health Science, FT – Associate Professor, Thanatology Coordinator, King’s University College, London, Canada, Change, Loss, and Transition Clinical Practice, Senior Faculty, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, Death, Dying, and Bereavement Author and Speaker
  • Laurie Burke, PhD – Research Assistant Professor, University of Memphis, Clinical Practice, Portland, Oregon, Grief, Violent Death Loss, Complicated Grief, Spiritual Struggle Author
  • Andrew Rapacke, JD, MS, Intellectual Property Attorney, BS, Naval Academy
  • Barbara Hribar, BA, Education, Ordained Minister, Youthful Living Inc. President
  • Dominic A Frisina, JD, MA, National Intellectual Property Attorney, Business Law
  • Eilene S Golub, LPCC, LICDC, LSW, Therapy
  • Jeff O’Driscoll, MD,
  • Natalie Jernigan, LPCC-S, ATR, Therapy
  • Rocky Krogfoss, New Beginnings Therapy Owner: Quantum Emotional Healer
  • Sabine Minsky, Osteopath, Reiki Master, Soul Readings, Coaching, Intuitive and Empath
  • Susan M Rager LLC, CPA, CGMA, Professional Accounting
  • Theresa Felix, MS, LMFT, Marriage & Family Therapist

Experts Researched and Recommended

After over three years of research, the “Understanding Grief and Healing” and “Grief Coaching” modules concisely summarize key areas where diverse prominent grief experts listed in the document mostly agree but also disagree. The “Grief Coaching” module summarizes key areas where diverse prominent experts listed explain basic life coaching emphasizing listening and guiding skills that overlap with those elements of grief therapy.

Education which may include eBooks, Kindle, Audible, hardcopy books, textbooks, articles, recordings, webinars, videos, workshops, classes, conferences, and in-person training from the following top experts was referenced and is highly recommended.