A grief group program by Happy Grieving and The Global Resilience Project
THROUGH is six months, online, in a small circle. We meet regularly, we go deep, and between sessions you are not alone with it.
- First and third Wednesday9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET
- Six monthsRolling start
- Small groupSmall enough to be known in
- AnywhereOnline, wherever you are
Why six months
An hour of being understood is a relief. Six months is something else. Six months is long enough for the group to know your person by name. Long enough for someone to notice when you go quiet in week nineteen. Long enough that when the birthday or the anniversary lands, you don't have to explain why this week is different, because the circle already knows.
The offer
What you get
- Two calls a monthOne workshop, with teaching and something to actually do. One open call where you bring whatever you are carrying that week.
- A private group chatMe and Blair are both in it, on WhatsApp. Not a broadcast channel, a real conversation.
- A daily check-inThe Gratitude Alarm: one small daily touchpoint. Genuinely useful on the hard days, and easy to ignore on the ones where you cannot.
- A one-to-one with meA private call, just us, to go deeper on what is coming up for you.
- A one-to-one with BlairA private call with Blair: facilitator, author, and someone who understands this from the inside.
- A grief matchWe aim to match you with someone close to your experience: loss type, age, gender, and city where we can, though an exact match isn't always possible. Sometimes you need the one who really gets it.
- The wider communityThe rest of Happy Grieving, plus reading and tools for the weeks between calls.
Bonuses
- $500 offa future Grief Trip, if booked within a year of starting the Group
- Digital copiesof all Blair's books
- Resilient AF Journalpaperback, posted to you
- $500 discountto be featured in The Global Resilience Project book's next edition, if you would like your story in it
How the calls run
Every first and third Wednesday, 9:00am PT and 12:00pm ET, online by video. The link comes to you when you join.
They alternate. The first Wednesday is a workshop: we teach something and work through it together. The third Wednesday is open. No agenda, no obligation to speak, and if what you need that day is to sit with the camera off while other people talk, that counts as attending.
The workshops Blair leads include the Navigating Grief framework and the power of gratitude, mapping your grief and letter writing, and writing your story. More get added as the group tells us what it needs, which is genuinely how we plan them.
It's a rolling six months: a new group starts every first Wednesday of the month, and your own six months will carry you through the full set of workshops and open calls either way.
Who is running it
Blair and I are both grievers, and both trained to facilitate. That is the whole point. Nobody in the room is explaining grief from the outside.
I'm Rachel. I founded Happy Grieving and Grief Trips after my dad died when I was 27.
I lead it together with Blair Kaplan, who knows loss from the inside the way I do. Blair is a grief and resilience expert, a motivational speaker and a bestselling author. She founded The Global Resilience Project and hosts the RESILIENT A.F with Blair and Alana podcast.
Who it's for
People whose loss is fresh, and people who are years in and tired of pretending they're done. People who can't get on a plane right now to join Grief Trips, because of work or kids or money or health. So many of you have told me the hardest part isn't the big days, it's the ordinary weeks with no one to say it to. This is for that.
The investment
Investment
- Best valuePay in full$2,400 USDOne payment, six monthsSave $300
- Monthly$450 USDPer month, six months$2,700 USD total
What it is, what it is not
This is peer support, not therapy, and I'm not a therapist. There are no stages to complete, no workbook that ends with you fixed, and no timeline to keep up with. You won't be asked to be positive, and you won't be rushed. It is the thing that actually helped me after my dad died, other people who get it, made regular and held.
If what you need is clinical care, finding it is your own responsibility. We're happy to share our own experience of going to therapy, if that's useful to you.
This isn't a crisis service. If you're in crisis right now, I'll point you toward crisis hotlines and encourage you to seek psychiatric or emergency care, rather than wait for a call, free crisis resources are here.
The full details, including age, payments, recording, and what happens if a cohort is just you or a call needs to be rescheduled, are in the Group Program Terms and Conditions.
From $2,400 USDEverything on this page, bonuses included.
If cost is the thing standing in the way, tell us before you rule it out. Money is never the reason someone can't come.
A free hour first
Not sure yet?
See what it's like at a free workshop first. It is one free hour with Rachel and Blair: some teaching, one thing to actually do, and nobody asked to share before they want to. It is a real taste of the six months, and it commits you to nothing.
- A free workshop for the holidays when someone is missingWednesday 11 November, 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET. Free, online.
No free event is scheduled right now. Join the free events list and you will hear the day one is.
Apply
Apply
Tell me a bit about you.
What happens after you apply
- A reply from meI read every application myself, so you'll hear back from me, not a form letter.
- Usually within 24 hoursSometimes sooner, sometimes a little longer if I'm travelling.
- Nothing charged, no commitmentApplying doesn't commit you to anything, and nothing is charged until you're ready.
The Group or a Trip?
If you want a week somewhere beautiful with people who get it, that's a Grief Trip. If you want company across a whole season of your life, that's THROUGH. Plenty of people do both. Not sure which fits you? Write and ask. There's no wrong door here.