The holiday season can bring both warmth and ache when you’re grieving. Traditions that once brought comfort may now carry tender memories. This reflective workshop offers a gentle space to pause, breathe, and find meaning in the midst of it all. Together, we’ll explore how to navigate gatherings, honor your needs, and shape rituals that hold both remembrance and renewal. You’ll leave with practical strategies and heartfelt insights for tending to your emotional well-being, creating space for both grief and gratitude, and discovering simple ways to carry hope forward through the season.

Presenter Bio: Carla Archuletta, MA, LPC/MHSP-S, FT, NCC
Carla Archuletta is a licensed professional counselor, grief educator, and end-of-life doula specializing in trauma, bereavement, and life transitions. She is a Fellow in Thanatology through the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and holds an End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate from the University of Vermont, where she now teaches as an instructor in the End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Program. Carla’s work invites people to approach dying, grieving, and planning not as crises to avoid, but as profound human experiences worthy of reflection, preparation, and love.

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