THE GRIEF INSTITUTE
Encompass Your Grief:
A Workbook for Grief & Loss
BY MARIDA ETHERINGTON MScN
Certified Grief Educator, Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher
A WORKBOOK TO HELP WITH GRIEF & LOSS
ENCOMPASS Your Grief Workbook
A Compassionate Guide for Navigating Loss
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The ENCOMPASS Your Grief Workbook is a reflective and practical companion for anyone moving through the complexities of grief. Rooted in the ENCOMPASS Your Grief Framework, this workbook offers education, guidance, and space for self-reflection to help you navigate loss with understanding, compassion, and resilience.
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Grief is deeply personal - there is no single path or pace. The ENCOMPASS approach honors this truth by addressing the emotional, physical, and social dimensions of grieving. It provides tools that can be used individually or in therapy to foster healing in a way that feels authentic and meaningful.
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Whether you are walking through loss yourself or guiding others as a therapist, this workbook helps you slow down, reflect, and find hope through intentional practice. Grief is a deeply personal experience - unpredictable, painful, and often transformative. The ENCOMPASS Your Grief Workbook was created as a gentle companion for those navigating loss, offering a framework to help you honor your grief while nurturing healing and growth.
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The ENCOMPASS Your Grief Workbook is a compassionate guide for anyone navigating loss -whether personally or in support of others. Rooted in mindfulness and meaning-making, it offers practical reflections, gentle exercises, and therapeutic tools for each stage of the ENCOMPASS framework. Designed for individuals and helping professionals alike, it encourages healing through empowerment, connection, and self-compassion.
The ENCOMPASS framework guides you through nine interconnected elements of healing: Empowerment, Nurture, Connection, Openness, Memories, Permission to Pause, Acceptance, Self-Compassion, and Self-Care. Together, they form a holistic path that encourages resilience, balance, and hope. Through gentle reflections, writing prompts, and mindfulness-based practices, it offers a compassionate framework to support emotional healing and growth. Each section helps you honor your grief while cultivating resilience, renewed hope and guides you toward living with greater understanding and peace.
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Each section offers gentle prompts, education and space for exploration. You can begin anywhere - follow what resonates, skip what doesn’t, and move at your own pace. Each element is designed to stand alone, while together they create a holistic map for healing.
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How to Use the Workbook:
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The ENCOMPASS Your Grief Workbook can be used:
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Individually, as a reflective journal and self-guided healing tool.
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In therapy, as a structured guide for grief counselling or coaching.
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In groups, as a framework for discussion, education, or peer support.
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This workbook is also an excellent clinical resource for therapists, grief counsellors, and facilitators. It supports clients in integrating emotional awareness, mindfulness, and compassionate reflection. Use it as a session guide, homework tool, or as part of a structured grief program to deepen self-exploration and meaning-making.
Throughout this workbook, you will find:
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Understanding Grief: Exploring the unique emotions and experiences that arise in grief and loss.
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Processing Emotions: Journal prompts and exercises to help you acknowledge and express your feelings.
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Self-Care and Coping Strategies: Tools to support your emotional and physical well-being.
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Through empowerment, connection, and self-kindness, it gently guides you toward integrating loss into your life story while nurturing hope and resilience.
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BONUS: Each section has a QR code which leads to an audio meditation
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By engaging with these pages, you are taking an active step toward navigating your journey with compassion and resilience. Be gentle with yourself, honor your emotions, and trust that even in grief, there can be moments of peace and hope.
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The Encompass workbook will help you to develop further insights and increase self- awareness and self-compassion.
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You will learn practices and skills to help better understand the grief and loss journey and find moments of peace and calm.
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As you move forward, allow yourself grace. Some days will feel heavier than others, and that is okay. Healing is not about forgetting; it is about learning to hold both love and loss in the same heart.
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Trust that healing is possible—not because grief disappears, but because we learn to live alongside it with greater understanding, compassion and hope.
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THE GRIEF INSTITUTE
The Grief Institute is dedicated to supporting those navigating both anticipatory grief—the emotions that arise before an expected loss—and the grief that follows, offering a compassionate space for healing, understanding, and growth. We know that grief can occur from the loss of loved ones, however grief can also arise from many types of significant loss. This can include relationship endings, divorce, job loss, life transitions, grieving past versions of yourself, empty nest syndrome, and more. At the Grief Institute, we support you in working through grief for any type of loss you may be facing. Founded with a deep passion for helping those who are grieving, The Grief Institute recognizes that grief can often feel isolating and misunderstood. In a society that struggles to talk about loss, we aim to change the conversation—normalizing grief as a natural response. Through our workbooks, classes, and online programs, we offer tools and guidance to help individuals navigate their emotions with greater acceptance, easing feelings of overwhelm and loneliness as well as a community to connect with who are on a similar journey. At The Grief Institute, we believe that grief, when acknowledged and embraced, can be a transformative part of life’s journey.