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The holidays can be a beautiful strain on the heart—full of memories, expectations, and a thousand quiet reminders of what’s changed. We sit down to unpack conscious grieving with open hands: how to honor what hurts, make space for what heals, and choose traditions that actually support your nervous system. This isn’t a tidy list of stages; it’s a living practice that meets you where you are, whether you’re grieving a loved one, a marriage, a job, or an old identity that no longer fits.

In this episode, we explore:

🌕 Grief showing up as physical signals in the body
🌖 Boundaries for parties, family plans, and social energy
🌗 Honoring grief beyond death including divorce and identity loss
🌘 Cyclical grief via chakras and the medicine wheel, not linear stages
🌑 The hero’s journey as a frame for separation, initiation, and return
🌒 Preparing for hard dates with planned support and self-care
🌓 Permission to be imperfect parents and simplify routines
🌔 Moving anger safely with rage rooms, breath, and movement
🌕 Letting small moments of joy coexist with sorrow

You’ll get practical holiday tools: set clean boundaries for social events, create rituals of remembrance (an empty chair, a candle, a favorite dish), and plan for hard dates with therapy, movement, or extra rest. We share scripts for loved ones who want to help and specifics that lift the load—meals, childcare, dishes—without adding decision fatigue. We talk rage rooms and why moving anger can unlock the sadness beneath it. And we normalize small glimmers of joy: they don’t betray your grief; they remind you that your heart still works.

Join Shantel Ochoa in a twice monthly online conscious grieving support group, Through The Veil-Conscious Grieving Group, in a compassionate space to heal through the many layers of grief that touch all areas of life—loss of a loved one, relationships, identity, health, opportunities, or life transitions.

The group will offer an empathetic, supportive environment to explore emotions, build resilience, and reconnect with yourself at a deeper level. You will learn tools to honor your grief, regulate your emotional and energetic body, and cultivate healing that extends beyond the sessions into everyday life.

Group sessions will be held every month on the 2nd and 4th Monday 3-5pm PT/ 6-8pm ET. Our first call will be January 12th. Join us for this monthly membership by clicking below at just $144/month:

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