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    You and your child are grieving 

the loss of a loved one, and every day you ask yourself one desperate question: 

  
How am I supposed to do this?! 

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You're on a parenting detour without a map.

You're heartbroken and devastated. Your heart breaks for your child who is suffering the loss of a loved one. You're desperate to help your child heal, but you don't know how.

How can you be the parent your child needs?

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and Help Your Bereaved Child Grow Up Whole & Happy
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Why Good Grief Parenting?

When grief overtakes your family, you want others around you who understand. Thank goodness for support groups. 

But you need more than understanding when it comes to parenting broken-hearted children to live whole, happy, hopeful lives after loss shatters childhood innocence.

You need guidance.

An unknown future that you never expected lies ahead. Nothing is as you dreamed it would be. Grief hangs over every day.  You wonder . . . 

How can we ever get past this grief? 

This is where the Good Grief Parenting Approach comes in. 

Good Grief Parenting provides the guidance, support, and tools you need so that your family can journey through healing into a future bright with possibilities and even joy.

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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is
the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

Yes, good grief is possible

With Good Grief Parenting you will learn healthy ways to cope with grief in daily living so that you and your childen can move forward in the remaking of the rest of your lives.

Good Grief Parenting helps you . . . 

  • Understand the truth and misconceptions about grief.

  • Recognize and acknowledge your child's unique needs. 

  • Nurture your child's healing and sense of self.

  • Learn the difference between moving on and moving forward while holding your loved one's memory.

  • Learn healthy ways for you and your child to grieve and honor the memory of your loved one.

  • Discover your own heart-led wisdom and the confidence to advocate for your family's needs.

  • Gain life skills that will equip your child and yourself to face inevitable losses and manage difficult emotions well.

  • Take care of yourself while taking care of your child.

  • Create a hope-filled family environment with possibilities that lead to wholeness and thriving beyond loss. ​

With Good Grief Parenting you will give the gift of good grief to your children for a lifetime. You will stop wondering whether you and your child can be okay and believe that you will be.

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Hello. I'm Michele

I'm glad you found me! I've been where you are. 

Now, as a parent coach, Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, ​and founder of Good Grief Parenting, I help families heal after loss and remake life when hopes and dreams have been stolen by the death of a child or parent. 

My heart's desire is to provide support and tools with a powerful approach for parenting amidst circumstances you never imagined your family facing. I offer coaching and a community of parents who understand what you are experiencing. Take just 20 minutes on the phone with me to discover how your family can thrive after your heartbreaking loss. 

Equipped with the Good Grief Parenting Approach you will be confident that you are helping your bereaved child grieve well and hopeful about a future for your family that is bright with possibilities and even joy. 

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As a parent,it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this—to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living, despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends . . . 

Sam Harris

Good Grief Programs

Good Grief Parenting
individual and group coaching
for parents of grieving children
ages 1-10 yrs.

The family that experiences the death of a child or parent must navigate a new "normal" that others around them cannot comprehend. One-on-one coaching with Michele establishes a foundation to support your family's unique needs in a world that often does not validate grief and its lifelong impact.

The Heart of Good Grief Parenting group coaching program connects parents who are on a similar path in mutual discovery and support.  

Good Grief Parenting gives parents permission, encouragement, guidance and tools to tune into your heart and tap into your own wisdom. Equipped with the 4 Keys you will confidently parent your young bereaved children to live well the rest of their lives.

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Siblings by Heart
individual and group coaching
for parents of bereaved siblings
ages 1-10 yrs.

When your child dies leaving a sibling to grieve, your heart is twice broken. Your child has died, and your living child's life will never be the same. Her sense of who she is and where she fits into the world has been shattered. Comforting and parenting your child in the face of this unspeakable new reality while bearing your own grief can seem an overwhelming challenge that other parents simply cannot understand.

Siblings by Heart addresses an area neglected in parenting education—the special needs of a young child growing up without a sibling who has died. Parents will learn heart-led ways to honor and nurture the unique relationship of Siblings by Heart ​ and to restore your living child's sense of self and a hopeful future.

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When Children Grieve
training and workshops for child caregivers and other caring adults

Well-meaning adults who want to help children deal with loss often unintentionally pass along unhelpful beliefs about loss and grief that get in the way of healthy grieving. Essential Messages and Helping Children Deal With Loss® are two programs designed to help caring adults discover guidelines to help children learn healthy responses to grief and effective ways of dealing with loss.

A program of The Grief Recovery Institute, Helping Children Deal With Loss® is based on the book When Children Grieve that identifies six myths about dealing with grief and replaces them with practical and helpful guidance.

The goal is not for children simply to survive grief, but for them to learn lifelong tools that will help them thrive with it.

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Things to keep in mind about grieving children

  • Because children don't mourn the same way adults do, their grief is often invisible. They often don't cry, and they may appear to be unaffected.

  • Inside, they're confused and scared and don't know what to expect, although they may never express those feelings.

  • Society's idea that people prefer to grieve alone is especially hard on children. The grief they feel goes unnoticed, and often those close to them don't bring up the loss for fear of reminding or upsetting them.

  • Children want to be able to talk about their loss. They need for others to be honest with them about their own feelings.

  • All children need care, continuity and connection. That is especially true for bereaved children experiencing the disruption that happens with the loss of a loved one.

  • Good Grief Parenting validates and supports those three needs (care, continuity and connection), helping both your child and you through the ongoing grief process to remake a meaning-full life beyond loss.

Ready to get to Good Grief?  Schedule a free 20-minute call with Michele. 

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I help families heal and move forward through grief after the death of their child. With the Good Grief Parenting Approach parents get in touch with their parenting wisdom so they can be confident that they are helping their bereaved young child grieve well and can be hopeful about a future for their family bright with possibilities and even joy. 

You turned my mourning to dancing and my sorrow to joy.   Psalm 30:11 

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Good Grief Parenting

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michele@michelebenyo.com

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