Helpful articles and healing poetry
Cathy’s articles discuss grief, its stages and impacts. She uses her own lived experience with a variety of circumstances and her observations of life around her to illustrate the points made in each article.
Sometime humourous; sometimes poignant. Cathy shares her life with you.
Her articles always leaves the reader with words of hope and healing.
Find Peace Amid The Turbulent Waters Of Grief
Articles
Understanding grief, a healthy response to trauma
Let’s Talk Together about grief. First, let me share some of my own experience with you. In the last eight years I have been through a sequence of challenging life situations from home care and…
Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance
Stories for June – Canada’s National Indigenous History Month INTRODUCTION This article was posted…
Breathe
The Road To Recovery And Healing A number of years ago I was doing…
Find Peace Amid The Turbulent Waters Of Grief
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About Cathy
Cathy Carphin, is a grief coach, writer and poet living in Victoria BC Canada. She works with individuals remotely and locally.
She works with individuals and is available as a guest speaker.
Having lived through many life challenges, taking the journey of grief and having come through to living her life more with purpose than with pain, Cathy comes alongside people who are in grief or who are supporting someone who is. Her coaching is non-judgemental, meeting the individual where they are and helping them move forward with self-care and hope.
Cathy has a B.A. in Psychology, is certified as a Grief Educator and trained in Polyvagal Theory and techniques (these are focused on calming the stress response and activating the body’s natural calm).
She specializes in providing personal and empathetic 1-on-1 coaching sessions centred around navigating the complexities of grief, trauma, and loss.
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