Grief Online Workshop-Finding Meaning and Purpose After Loss

"Finding Meaning and Purpose After Loss"

Facilitator: Susan Casey, MSW, MFA

Description: Please join Susan Casey, therapist, psychic medium, grief and loss coach, bereavement group facilitator, podcaster, speaker, and author of Rock On: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief for a discussion on grief, loss, and healing.

Through Susan’s personal experience of losing her younger brother in 2014 and through her professional work throughout the past 3 decades, Susan has learned that grief can be a gateway to experience and embrace our inner light in more a profound and life-changing way when we surrender rather than resist the deep and profound losses in our lives.

In this 60 minute presentation and interactive discussion with audience members, Susan will share her personal story of loss, followed by a talk that will cover grieving vs. mourning, types of grief people experience, strategies for coping with grief, and post-traumatic growth and healing.

Please come prepared to engage in an informative and hopeful discussion about an often taboo topic in a culture where we often flash a smile to the outside world, while we grieve silently and hide behind closed doors where we feel isolated, alone, and in despair.

Attendee Materials Recommended: N/A

More about our Presenter:

Susan E. Casey, MSW, MFA, is an author, a licensed mental health clinician, a psychic medium, a certified bereavement group facilitator, a certified life coach, speaker and podcaster. Throughout the past 30 years, Susan has worked in hospice, in-patient, and home-based settings with teens and adults, and taught numerous courses to executive leaders and clinicians. Most recently, Susan worked for a measurement-based care organization, providing clinical coaching to therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists countrywide to improve mental health outcomes for youth and adults.

Currently, Susan works with clients dealing with deep grief and loss, combining her therapeutic skills and knowledge with her mediumship to help clients heal and integrate their loss into their lives. Susan also offers individual readings for people, channeling messages from her spirit team they lovingly call BETH (Becoming Enlightened Through Healing) for people who are looking for guidance along their life path. Messages from deceased loved ones also often come through during readings if there is a message that will aid the client in any challenges they’re facing.

Susan hosted her podcast Rock Your Shine: After you’ve been cracked wide open, featuring transformational stories about deep grief and loss for 2.5 years. Those stories are available on all podcast platforms.

Susan’s younger 43-year-old brother, Rocky, died unexpectedly on February 14, 2014, which led her to all the work she’s doing currently and to writing her first nonfiction book, Rock On: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief published on February 14, 2020, by Library Tales Publishing.

Contact: rockyourshine@gmail.com

Website: https://rockyourshine.com/

**Upon registration, you will be sent a confirmation email. To access the online workshop, it is important to use the Eventbrite reminder emails (one will be sent the day of the event) and log into your Eventbrite account to access the online workshop. Although we use the Zoom platform, Eventbrite emails will grant you access to the Zoom meeting. You will not be sent a Zoom link.**

For questions, contact Christin Alexander, Community Outreach Coordinator, at calexander@pinelawn.com or 631.249.6100 x120.

Disclaimer: The information shared in this program is not intended to act as a substitute for any legal and mental health advice concerning individual situations; neither Pinelawn Memorial Park or COPE, its Board of Directors, staff and personnel shall be responsible for any outcomes arising from any information or exercises provided in this program.

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COPE is a nonprofit grief and healing organization dedicated to helping parents and families living with the loss of a child. COPE offers community support – if you need support, please reach out: 516-832-2673 info@copefoundation.org. For more information, visit www.copefoundation.org

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