In this module, Ligia broadens your understanding of loss beyond bereavement, helping you recognize the many ways people experience change and disconnection. You'll explore primary, secondary, tangible, and intangible losses, as well as the impact of multiple losses across a lifetime.

Ligia explains grief as a nonlinear, individual experience that touches the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of a person's life. You'll learn how to recognize manifestations of grief, distinguish between grief/bereavement/mourning, and understand different types of grief including anticipatory, complicated, and disenfranchised.

Explore influential grief models — from Kübler Ross to Worden, the Dual Process Model, Continuing Bonds, and Meaning Reconstruction. Ligia uses case examples, reflection exercises, and journal prompts to help you apply these frameworks with real people.

This unit focuses on the unique challenges of losing a child, spouse, or parent, as well as the experiences of grieving children and adolescents. Ligia explains how each type of loss affects identity, relationships, and support needs.

Ligia explores the emotional, physical, and spiritual strain caregiving creates, including anticipatory grief, identity loss, isolation, resentment, and guilt. You’ll also learn what grief can look like when caregiving ends and tools to help caregivers process their journey and find meaning.

This unit helps you understand the difference between solitude and isolation, and why grievers often struggle to engage with support systems. Ligia teaches strategies for reconnection, healthy boundaries, and compassionate presence.

Ligia examines how technology has reshaped mourning, visibility, and connection through social media, online memorials, and virtual communities. You'll learn the benefits and risks of digital grieving spaces, as well as ethical boundaries. This unit also introduces emerging considerations around AI and grief support.

In this module, you'll learn why certain phrases — though well-intended — minimize grief and increase isolation. Ligia offers an alternative language that validates, supports, and fosters openness.

Ligia introduces simple, accessible mindfulness tools that help grievers stay present with their emotions rather than suppressing them. You'll practice mindful breathing, body scans, and grounding meditations that you can offer as powerful support skills.

Rituals create structure, meaning, and connection during times of loss, and in this module, Ligia explores both traditional and personal rituals. You'll learn how funerals, celebrations of life, memory boxes, letters, and nature-based practices support healing. She offers ideas you can introduce to grievers to help them express and honor their grief.

This unit explains how workplaces can support grieving employees with presence, flexibility, and compassion, PLUS outlines best practices for returning to work and reintegration after loss.

Ligia takes you through how the brain processes grief and how thought patterns can intensify suffering. Plus, get simple tools to help grievers reframe thoughts and reduce emotional pain.

This unit explores how grief can lead to unhealthy behaviors and how to guide clients back toward presence, emotional regulation, and connection. You'll learn skills for distress tolerance, mindfulness, and relationship repair.

Ligia provides a toolbox of grounding practices, breathwork, journaling prompts, and embodied healing strategies to support emotional regulation and resilience through the grieving process.

This unit introduces creative approaches—art, music, crafting, scrapbooking, memory boxes — to help grievers express what words cannot. Ligia demonstrates how creativity opens pathways to meaning and healing, even for those who think they're "not artistic."

Ligia explores cultural, historical, and psychological perspectives on dreams, signs, and the ongoing bond many grievers feel with loved ones. You'll learn how to validate these experiences while maintaining ethical and cultural sensitivity.

This unit teaches you how to support grievers during a season filled with triggers, expectations, and emotional complexity. Ligia guides you in creating personalized holiday plans, honoring the "empty chair," and introducing meaningful rituals.

Ligia explains how grief evolves over time and how people can integrate loss into their life story without being defined by it. You'll explore identity, meaning making, continued bonds, and signs of healthy adjustment. This unit empowers you to help clients cultivate hope, purpose, and renewal.

In this final module, Ligia teaches you how to design and lead a safe, meaningful grief support group. You'll learn group guidelines, facilitation skills, a 90-minute session structure, and compassionate marketing strategies.