Free Guide for Loss E-Book
61 Tips on the Experience of Grief and How to Help People Through It
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61 Tips on the Experience of Grief and How to Help People Through It
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Each Person's Grief is Unique.
The more I learn about others' journeys, the better I can help parents of grieving siblings. If you are the parent of a child whose sibling died in childhood—or if your sibling died when you were a child—I would like to hear from you. Please contact me using the form below if you are willing to share your experience with me.
The more I learn about others' journeys, the better I can help parents of grieving siblings. If you are the parent of a child whose sibling died in childhood—or if your sibling died when you were a child—I would like to hear from you. Please contact me using the form below if you are willing to share your experience with me.
Are you . . .
- Heartbroken that the death of a sibling has stolen the childhood, companionship and future you imagined for your bereaved child?
- Looking for help—for hope—on this parenting detour with your grieving child, for which you feel utterly unprepared?
- At a loss, needing support to move forward beyond what grief support groups, counselors and books offer?
Children need caring adults to teach them how to recover well from the pain of loss and grief. Equipped with the truth about grief and a heart-led parenting approach
you can help your grieving child thrive and experience hope and joy after loss.
I have a special heartbeat for siblings by heart, but this hope is my heart's desire
for any child who is grieving. I offer services that help parents and other caring adults
guide grieving children in the remaking of life after loss.
you can help your grieving child thrive and experience hope and joy after loss.
I have a special heartbeat for siblings by heart, but this hope is my heart's desire
for any child who is grieving. I offer services that help parents and other caring adults
guide grieving children in the remaking of life after loss.
Visit my Events page to see details about my upcoming groups, presentations and webinars.
Contact Me to request a group or invite me to present a program for your group.
Contact Me to request a group or invite me to present a program for your group.
SIBLINGS BY HEART and ESSENTIAL MESSAGES are my signature parenting programs. Each can be tailored to meet the needs of a group or individual and can be presented as a multi-week course, a single workshop or as personal coaching. I am happy to work with you either virtually or in person.
Even out of unspeakable grief,
beautiful things take wing. . .
- A.R. Torres
Get Tips for Helping Children
who are grieving:
Six Ways to Teach Children that
Sad Feelings are Normal & Okay
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who are grieving:
Six Ways to Teach Children that
Sad Feelings are Normal & Okay
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You give yourself permission to grieve by recognizing the need for grieving. Grieving is the natural way of working through the loss of a love. Grieving is not weakness nor absence of faith. Grieving is as natural as crying when you are hurt, sleeping when you are tired or sneezing when your nose itches. It is nature's way of healing a broken heart.
- Doug Manning
- Doug Manning
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
- Eda LeShan
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends . . .
- Sam Harris
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.
- Earl Grollman
A Few Fun Facts
- My favorite day
A crisp 0° snow-sparkling blue-sky day in January - Favorite food (chocolate and coffee don't count)
A perfectly ripe avocado - Listening music of choice
Yanni's Dare to Dream and Reflections of Passion - Proudest accomplishment
Hiking 32 miles in one day on the Superior Hiking Trail to raise money for CureSearch for Children's Cancer - Most humbling experience
Hearing the joyful singing of impoverished Haitians awaiting the delivery of food
- Something I can't live without
The Word of God and my relationship with Him
When your child has a broken heart . . .
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Meet Michele
Hello! I am so glad you're here! As a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, family educator and certified life coach, I am here to help parents help their children heal from grief, and to remake their lives when hopes and dreams have been stolen by loss. My heart goes out to those families and children. And I want to offer you hope of creating and living joy beyond loss. 
Let's talk about what brought you to my site. I invite you to schedule a free 30-minute no-obligation discovery session with me. Fill out the form below to access my calendar.
Free Guide for Loss E-Book
The Grief Recovery Method Guide for Loss: 61 Tips on the Experience of Grief and How to Help People Through It Fill out the form below and get your FREE e-book today! |
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Meet Michele Benyo
Hello! I am so glad you're here! As a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, family educator and certified life coach, I am here to help parents recover from the grief of having hopes and dreams for their families stolen by loss. My heart is for those parents and for the grieving child whose glowing ember is inextinguishable, needing only to be cradled tenderly with essential messages and stirred with hope to become a bright flame. |
Parenting a Bereaved Sibling
When your child dies, it's difficult enough to bear your own grief, but it's even more heartbreaking to watch your living child grieve for her sibling. How can you stop the hurting? And how do you parent the child left to grow up without her beloved sibling? For the bereaved parent whose heart is twice broken, comforting and parenting your child in the face of this unspeakable new reality can seem an overwhelming challenge. Working with Michele, parents learn tools and essential messages to help you and your child move past the pain and have hope that you can experience joy beyond the loss. |
When Children Grieve®
Our first experiences of loss happen when we are children—whether a pet dies, a beloved toy is lost, a friend moves away, parents divorce, or a loved one dies or becomes critically ill. Children grieve these experiences, and what they learn about grief shapes how they will cope with later losses. Michele offers the 6-week Helping Children Deal with Loss® program, as well as customized group and individual programs, to teach parents and other caring adults how to help children grieve in healthy and helpful ways. The goal is not for children simply to survive grief, but for them to thrive with it. |
The Grief Recovery Method®
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss, yet many of us are overcome and stricken by it, not knowing how to recover from the pain. Contrary to what we may believe, busy-ness and time do not heal grief. It will not fade away on its own; nor is it something to be simply gotten over. But we can recover from grief by taking intentional action steps. Through the Grief Recovery Method®, either in a group setting or one-on-one, I help those who are ready to move beyond grief through some simple action steps to recovery. |
