From Dr. Cari Jackson:
Grief and trauma are gripping our lives. Many who sit in the pews, or at home on Zoom, on Sundays are holding trauma and pain and there is not space for processing and healing let alone thriving. Many are living with depression, distrust, living on high alert and limited peace. But we do not have to stay there. And we don’t have to deal with it in silence nor alone.
It is my honor to share with you special invitations to two programs I am offering for healing and empowerment: Expanding Life in Loss and Taking Back My Life!™
Both program offerings were initially developed in 2001 as part of my ministry when many people in New York City were experiencing intense grieving and trauma triggered by the devastating attack and destruction of the World Trade Center. While I have offered both Expanding Life in Loss and Taking Back My Life!™ groups for 20 years, I have now developed them for virtual space to address the pain many people are living with every day - brought on by the multiple pandemics and social crises we are living through now.
I am pleased to offer both groups with Carson Hawks as co-facilitator. Here are brief descriptions of both programs.
Expanding Life in Loss is a grief support and life empowerment program for individuals experiencing grief and loss – especially due to death, divorce, chronic illness, family estrangement, job loss, or the atmosphere of overwhelm and stress in our society. The group provides a space for you to wrestle with both the emotional and spiritual issues relating to grief and loss, using group discussion, art, music, and journaling. Participating in this 7-session group will enable access to the healing power possible in the midst of grieving personal loss. Your participation will help you recognize and access new possibilities for your life that emerge from your loss.
Dates: October 13, 2021 through January 5, 2022
7 Group sessions every other Wednesday via Zoom
4 - 5:30 pm (Pacific Time)
$99 (50% discount code is available for SWC-UCC)
For registration, go to: Expanding Life in Loss, discount code: UCC50
Taking Back My Life!™ is a self-paced empowerment and recovery program for survivors of sexual trauma that uses online guided meditations, resource information, reflection questions, exercises and small group discussions to help survivors:
Identify beliefs and narratives that limit fulfillment and happiness
Recognize and break through patterns of self-sabotage
Envision and realize a more joy-filled, powerful, satisfying life
Recognize trauma triggers and get grounded
Cultivate spiritual and emotional tools needed to get to breakthroughs
Weekly groups January 2022
8 Group sessions every week via Zoom
4 - 5:30 pm (Pacific Time)
$379, 35% discount code is available for SWC-UCC
For registration, go to: Taking Back My Life!™, discount code: UCC35
Both Expanding Life in Loss and Taking Back My Life!™ are open to anyone seeking this kind of spiritual space. However, if 10 or more clergy in SWC-UCC would like either group organized specifically for clergy, let us know and we will be glad to set up such a group. Please contact me at info@drcarijackson.com.
No one needs to hold their trauma or grief in silence nor alone.
Blessings,
Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson