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WHERE THERE IS LOSS, THERE IS GRIEF. 

You Don't Have To Navigate Grief Alone

Loss is the common thread that connects us all.

Compassionate Grief Support

Helping You Navigate Loss With Gentle Guidance and Hope

Grief and loss are among life’s only certainties, yet we are rarely prepared for the emotions they bring or given the tools needed to process and navigate them.

 

Some losses remain unattended for years, quietly accumulating and becoming unresolved over time. While many believe time heals all wounds, the truth is that healing comes from what we choose to DO with our time.

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The Grief Recovery Method® has been developed and refined over the past 40 years. It is a compassionate, action-oriented and evidence-based program designed to help individuals move beyond pain and begin healing from loss.

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With gentle guidance and support, you can take intentional steps toward healing while creating space for gratitude, peace, and joy again.

   

Meet Zena

So, who am I?  I’m a fellow griever who has walked the path of sorrow and heartache.  A grief companion that has cried myself to sleep, lived my days in a fog, experienced anxiety of walking into a grocery store, forgot to eat, and bathe. I existed.  Existed in a pool of my profound grief.  

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Yes – Grief Sucks!  It consumes your every waking hour. At times you feel as though you are drowning.  The waves of grief pull you into deeper waters and as you rise to the surface and catch your breath you are hit yet again with a wave of the painful reality that your life has been forever changed by losing a loved one.  You hold onto your life preserver white knuckling through the days, weeks and months with a brave smile and broken heart.  

 

BUT with courage a day comes where you take ownership of your emotional pain which is the key to growth and transformation.  And with this growth you realize there is beauty in a world that can have pain. 

 

Today is your day.  

 

If you are reading this with a heavy heart from suffering a monumental loss, my heart is with you and you have my deepest sympathy.  You also have my admiration.  It takes courage to make the first step towards your healing, and for that brave first step, “Welcome”

 

It is my privilege to walk with you on your healing journey.  

 

Lets chat. 

Zena Walsh Peralson
Zena Walsh Pearlson Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, Grief Coach, Grief Support
Winding Roads
Guide book for Loss GRM

The Grief Recovery Method Guide for Loss: 61 tips on the experience of Grief and how to help people through it.

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Words of Praise

I first met Zena at Simcoe Hospice at a group grief counselling session in 2018. At this time I was so lost in my life after losing my best friend and wife to cancer. At this time I didn't know which way to turn, felt that nothing mattered and was just so full of grief and despair. As the weeks went by in the weekly sessions, a sense of hope and friendship started to develop among the group and within myself. I then felt drawn to Zena as her spirit and energy was something that I felt most unique. After our many conversations I began to know Zena as a very caring, sensitive and supportive person. I always felt that she wanted to talk and listen to me as she truly cared about me and everyone else in the group, hoping to make a difference in our lives. Zena could sense the pain were all going through and wanted to help in any way possible to ease the pain and help us understand that while yes this totally sucks, that it is ok to feel this way but things will get better. I always looked forward to our weekly meetings to share with the group and see my new family. I am inspired by Zena's compassion and desire to help others through this most difficult time. Good on you Zena!! 

~ Wayne

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