Grief Embodied: A Healing Journey for Nurses

Grief Embodied is a healing invitation, a tender, multi-layered offering that meets you where you are. It offers gentle and varied ways to engage with your grief. You are welcome to enter in whatever way calls to you. There is no right place to begin—only a loving call to heal.

These offerings are for you if:

• You carry unspoken grief from your work—and aren’t sure where to put it
• You’ve been told to “keep going,” but your body is asking you to slow down
• You feel guilt, anger, numbness, or confusion—and want to meet those feelings with compassion
• You long for a space where grief is not pathologized or rushed, but welcomed and witnessed

More About Each Offering

Grief Embodied - Video Series

A 4-part on demand video journey

Cost: $49

Across four carefully crafted modules, you are invited set your own pace as you are guided to gently understand grief’s many forms, unravel inherited myths, reframe the role of guilt, and courageously tell the truth of your experiences. With guided reflection, movement practices, and storytelling, this course offers a nurturing space to reconnect with the wisdom of your body, release what no longer serves, and begin to integrate grief with intention and grace. More than a training—this is a healing journey toward wholeness.

What You’ll Receive:

• 4 guided video modules (self-paced)
• Gentle movement + breath practices
• Reflection prompts & journaling tools
• Access to a private, supportive community
• Lifelong access to all materials

"Do it for yourself. We deserve to be able to thrive as caregivers and healers … not just survive. This program helps revive our passion for life, integrate our grief, and care again from the inside out." - Robin RN Ambulatory Care 

Grief Embodied - Zoom Series

A 4- Week Grief Embodied Program for Nurses and Caregivers 

Live with Tara via ZOOM 

90 minute sessions with 6 CEUs available

Dates:  9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30

Time: 8:30 AM PST / 11:30 AM EST

Cost: $149

That anger that appears out of nowhere. The tears that come without warning. The exhaustion is so deep that no amount of sleep can touch it.

You think it’s just stress. Just burnout. Just another brutal shift in healthcare.

But what if I told you it’s actually grief? Grief for the patients you couldn’t save, the care you couldn’t give, the colleagues who left, and the parts of yourself lost along the way. The quiet weight of years spent caring.

Sometimes we don’t even know we’re grieving. We just know we’re angry, exhausted, and running on empty. We know we feel guilty every time we try to rest because someone else needs us. We know we’ve been caring for everyone else so long, we’ve forgotten we deserve care too.

If you’re nodding along, thinking “She gets it” - you’re in the right place.

Here’s what I could imagine. You’re brilliant at caring for others, and receiving care yourself may feel hard. You’ve been taught that your worth comes from how much you give, not from who you are. And somewhere along the way, you started believing that taking care of yourself is selfish.

But here’s what I believe: You are worthy to receive - hardstop. And right now, it's time to find a safe and courageous space to receive with those who get it. I truly believe we have an opportunity as nurses to be and heal in relationship with one another. 

What if you could tend to those you love while doing all the things you love - without burning out? What if you could process your grief in community, build sustainable systems of care, and rediscover joy in your work and life?

That’s exactly what Vital Care is designed to do.

This isn’t another self-care program that tells you to take bubble baths and call it good. This is deep, embodied work that addresses the root of what’s keeping you stuck - your unprocessed grief, your limiting beliefs about care, and your disconnection from joy.

Over 4 transformative weeks, you’ll experience:

Week 1: We Are Worthy To Be Cared For
Discover the beliefs about care that were shaped in childhood and are now keeping you burned out. Through creative movement, storytelling, and community connection, you’ll create new beliefs that actually serve you - and learn practical ways to integrate them into your everyday life.

Week 2: Sustainable Systems of Care
Build morning and evening routines that feed your mind, body, and soul instead of depleting you. No more surviving day to day - you’ll create systems that help you thrive, even during your busiest seasons.

Week 3: Grief and Joy
Here’s where the real work happens. You’ll identify what’s entangling you and keeping you from joy, process your grief through storytelling and somatic practices, and rediscover what actually brings you alive. Because grief and joy aren’t opposites - they’re dance partners.

Week 4: Creative Collaboration
Transform everything you’ve learned into something tangible you can take with you. Create your personal manifesto for creative care and build lasting connections with others who truly understand your journey.

This program is perfect for you if:

• You’re tired of feeling angry, exhausted, or overwhelmed, even without knowing why
• You want to process your grief in a safe, creative community
• You’re ready to build sustainable systems of self-care that actually work
• You know you deserve better but don’t know how to create it
• You’re curious about embodied, creative approaches to healing

What makes Vital Care different?
As a nurse, dancer, and grief recovery specialist, I understand the unique challenges nurses and caregivers face. I’ve walked through my own profound losses - including my mother at 49 and my brother Nathan at 30 and I almost died myself from an ectopic pregnancy- I know how grief shows up in our bodies, our relationships, and our work.

This isn’t therapy. It’s not clinical. It’s creative, embodied, and designed specifically for nurses and caregivers who are ready to transform their relationship with care, grief, and joy.

By the end of 4 weeks, you’ll have:

• A clear understanding of what’s been keeping you burned out and overwhelmed
• New beliefs about care that create more time, less stress, and less guilt
• Sustainable morning routines that ground and energize you
• Tools for processing grief and accessing joy daily
• A creative manifesto for how you want to live and work
• A community of people who truly get your journey

Investment: $149 for all 4 weeks (that’s less than $40 per session)

Ready to stop surviving and start thriving?

This is your invitation to tend to yourself with the same compassion you give others. To process your grief in community. To rediscover joy in your work and life.

Because you deserve care too.

"I’d say, the Grief Embodied Journey is like AA for people pleasers and caretakers. We become so bogged down with others’ needs that we don’t even know what we want anymore. I have been to a lot of grief therapists who thought I just needed to make big life changes or take antidepressants to fix my feelings but in the Grief Embodied Journey you are getting back in touch with that integral part of you who is already strong and wise." - Sara RN ER

Ready to go even deeper? After completing Vital Care, you can continue your journey with individual grief coaching (8-weeks) or join our extended group program for deeper community support. 

Group and Individual Coaching with Tara

Go deeper during One-on-One Grief Recovery Coaching with Tara 

Sessions 75 minutes once a week for 8 weeks and up to 24 CEUs available

Maybe you’ve been carrying grief for years - decades even - and you’re exhausted from pretending you’re “fine.” Or maybe you’ve just experienced a devastating loss and you know you need more support than you can find anywhere else. Either way, you’re here because you know something needs to change.

You’re tired of that anger that appears out of nowhere. Those unexpected tears. That bone-deep exhaustion that no amount of sleep can touch. You’re ready to stop surviving and start living again.

This intensive 8 week individual coaching program is for nurses and caregivers who are ready to do the deep work of healing grief - whether you lost someone yesterday or decades ago.

What Makes This Different

This isn’t traditional grief counseling. It’s not sitting in a chair talking about your feelings week after week with no real resolution. This is embodied grief recovery - a powerful combination of creative, somatic practices with the proven structure of The Grief Recovery Method®. You’ll work through your grief in your body, your mind, and your heart.

Here’s what we’ll do together

Memory Healing: We’ll go directly into the old memories and beliefs that are keeping you stuck, healing them at the source and creating new beliefs that actually serve who you are now.

Loss History Mapping: You’ll create a complete picture of all the losses in your life - not just death, but divorce, job changes, moves, broken trust - and understand how they’re all connected.

Relationship Completion: Using proven methods, you’ll finally say the things you never got to say, forgive what needs forgiving, and complete what’s been left unfinished.

Embodied Integration: Through movement, breathwork, and creative expression, you’ll process grief not just mentally but somatically - because grief lives in the body.

This Program is Perfect for You If:

• You’ve been carrying grief for years and you’re exhausted from pretending you’re okay

• You recently experienced a significant loss and want deep, personalized support

• You tried group programs but need more individualized attention

• You’re ready to move from numb and disconnected to joyful and open-hearted

• You want to combine proven grief recovery methods with embodied, creative healing

• You’re tired of feeling like you “should be over it by now”

• You know you deserve to feel like yourself again

What You’ll Experience

By the end of our work together, you’ll no longer feel numb. You’ll be experiencing more joy, feeling like yourself again, with a profound sense of self-worth and desire to live the life you were meant to live. You’ll start dreaming again. You’ll have more energy, more excitement for life. You’ll be ready to be in relationship with the world again - less hiding, more opening of your heart.

This is deep, transformative work that changes everything.

Ready to Begin?

If you’re tired of carrying grief alone and you’re ready to do the deep work of healing, let’s talk.

This is your invitation to finally complete what’s been left unfinished. To heal the memories that are keeping you stuck. To move from surviving to thriving.

For more information please visit https://www.tararynders.com/embodied-grief-journey and/or email tara@artandheartofhealthcare to set up a free consultation

"Through reflection, creative practices and sharing vulnerability in this group, you learn to stop being afraid of being wrong and learning to trust the wisdom of your own heart." - Jessica RN MICU