Find your footing through grief, one day at a time
A 365-day companion that meets you exactly where you are — with a short lesson, a gentle reflection, and one small act of healing, every single day. No timeline. No pressure. Just steady, human support for as long as you need it.
Healing isn't forgetting — it's learning to carry love and loss in the same hands, and I'll walk every step of that with you.— Leigh Baumann
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Understand your own grief patterns and recognise why your experience is uniquely valid
- Build a personal toolkit of healthy coping strategies for difficult emotions, days, and triggers
- Navigate the 'firsts' — birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and ordinary moments — with greater steadiness
- Honour your loved one's memory through meaningful rituals and a continuing bond that doesn't require letting go
- Gradually rediscover your identity, confidence, and sense of purpose beyond the loss
- Carry love and loss together — understanding that healing is not forgetting, but learning to live fully again
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
7 modules · 28 lessons
The Early Days of Grief
The opening module meets participants exactly where they are — in the raw, disorienting first weeks after loss. Before any coping or meaning-making is possible, participants need to feel seen, safe, and not alone. This module establishes the daily rhythm of the course, introduces foundational grief literacy, and gently anchors participants in basic self-care. Personalisation is front-loaded here so that from Day 1, every lesson speaks to the participant's specific loss, relationship, and circumstances. Sequencing note: shock and survival come before emotion-processing, because many people in early grief are not yet ready to feel — they are simply trying to function.
- 1.1Understanding GriefIncluded
- 1.2Coping With Shock and OverwhelmIncluded
- 1.3Making Space for EmotionsIncluded
- 1.4Creating Safety and Daily RoutinesIncluded
Living With Loss
As the initial shock gradually softens, participants move into the sustained experience of living with loss — the weeks and months where grief becomes a constant companion rather than an acute emergency. This module addresses the emotional complexity that emerges once survival mode begins to lift: loneliness, the unpredictability of triggers, the challenge of navigating other people's expectations, and the need to ask for help. A dedicated lesson on the 'firsts' is introduced here — earlier than most curricula place it — because many participants will encounter their first significant date (a birthday, a month anniversary, a holiday) within the first 100 days. Sequencing note: support-seeking is placed last in this module because participants first need to understand their own emotional landscape before they can articulate what kind of support they need.
- 2.1Understanding Changing EmotionsIncluded
- 2.2Managing LonelinessIncluded
- 2.3Navigating the FirstsIncluded
- 2.4Asking for and Accepting SupportIncluded
Understanding Your Grief
By Days 101–150, many participants have passed through the initial shock, survived their first wave of 'firsts,' and begun to encounter the deeper, more complex emotional terrain of grief — the feelings that are harder to admit, harder to explain, and harder to sit with. This module goes beneath the surface to explore guilt, regret, anger, sadness, and the questions that may have no answers. It also introduces self-compassion as the essential skill that makes all of this exploration bearable. Sequencing note: self-compassion is placed as Lesson 3 (not last) because participants need it as a foundation before they can meaningfully engage with meaning-making. Finding meaning without self-compassion risks becoming self-critical or forced.
- 3.1Exploring Guilt, Regret, and Unanswered QuestionsIncluded
- 3.2Understanding Anger and SadnessIncluded
- 3.3Self-CompassionIncluded
- 3.4Finding Meaning in Your ExperienceIncluded
Honouring Their Life
By Day 151, participants have done significant internal work. This module turns outward — toward the person they have lost — and focuses on the active, ongoing relationship between the living and the dead. Drawing on the continuing bonds theory of grief (Klass, Silverman & Nickman), it affirms that healthy grieving does not require 'letting go' but rather a transformation of the relationship into one that can be carried forward. This module addresses a core target outcome — honouring the loved one's memory through meaningful rituals and a continuing bond — and offers one of the most healing experiences of the course. Sequencing note: gratitude is placed last in this module, not as a toxic-positivity exercise but as a natural emergence after memory, ritual, and continuing bonds have been explored.
- 4.1Keeping Memories AliveIncluded
- 4.2Creating Meaningful RitualsIncluded
- 4.3Continuing Bonds With Your Loved OneIncluded
- 4.4Finding Gratitude Alongside GriefIncluded
Rebuilding Yourself
Loss does not only take a person — it takes a role, an identity, a version of yourself that existed in relationship to them. The spouse becomes a widow. The parent becomes a bereaved parent. The self that was known and loved by this specific person must now find a way to exist without that witness. This module addresses the profound identity disruption of grief and guides participants through the slow, non-linear process of rediscovering who they are, rebuilding confidence, re-engaging with the world, and finding their first genuine moments of hope. Sequencing note: identity comes before confidence, because you cannot rebuild confidence without first knowing — at least partially — who you are rebuilding it for.
- 5.1Rediscovering IdentityIncluded
- 5.2Rebuilding ConfidenceIncluded
- 5.3Returning to Work, Family, and RelationshipsIncluded
- 5.4Finding Moments of HopeIncluded
Living Forward
By Day 251, participants have built a substantial foundation: grief literacy, emotional regulation, a continuing bond with their loved one, a recovering sense of identity, and emerging hope. This module focuses on living forward — not leaving grief behind, but learning to move through the world with it as a companion rather than a captor. Participants engage with future milestones, new experiences, the ongoing task of integrating love and loss, and the active cultivation of resilience. Sequencing note: resilience is placed last in this module — not as the destination, but as the emerging capacity that results from everything that has come before it.
- 6.1Navigating Future MilestonesIncluded
- 6.2Opening to New ExperiencesIncluded
- 6.3Carrying Love Without Being Defined by LossIncluded
- 6.4Building ResilienceIncluded
A Life That Includes Grief
The final module arrives at the end of the first year — a milestone that carries enormous weight in grief. For many, the end of 'firsts' brings relief; for others, it brings fresh grief ('Now what? Now they are really gone'). This module meets both experiences with honesty and care. It integrates the full arc of the course, helps participants articulate how they have changed, and looks forward with a sense of purpose, possibility, and sustained love. Sequencing note: 'accepting that grief changes' is placed first because it reframes the entire year — not as a recovery arc that ends, but as the beginning of a lifetime relationship with loss and love. Purpose is explored before honouring, so that the final two lessons feel like a celebration earned through genuine work.
- 7.1Accepting That Grief Changes Over TimeIncluded
- 7.2Finding Purpose After LossIncluded
- 7.3Honouring Both the Past and the FutureIncluded
- 7.4Celebrating Growth and Creating a Hopeful Next ChapterIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The newly bereaved
You're in the rawness of early loss and need something gentle and grounding to hold onto each day.
The long-time griever
Your loss wasn't recent, but it still quietly shapes your days — and you're ready for steady, honest support.
The quietly struggling
You seem fine to everyone around you, but privately you're carrying grief that has never had a proper space.
The 'firsts' navigator
Birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays loom large, and you want tools to move through them with greater steadiness.
The identity rebuilder
Loss has shifted who you are, and you're searching — gently — for your sense of self, confidence, and purpose again.
The memory keeper
Honouring your loved one and keeping a living bond with them matters deeply to you, and you want meaningful ways to do it.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Leigh Baumann
If you're here, you're carrying something heavy. And I want you to know, before anything else, that I see you. Not the version of you that's supposed to be "doing better by now" — the real you, the one who woke up this morning and felt the weight of it all over again. That person is welcome here, exactly as they are.
Grief can be profoundly isolating, in part because the world around us is often uncomfortable with it. People say the wrong things. Or they stop asking. Life moves on around you while you feel quietly frozen — or quietly shattered — in the middle of it all. I created A Year of Grief because I believed there was a different way to offer support: not a quick fix, not a prescriptive programme with a neat end date, but a genuine daily companion that walks beside you for as long as the journey takes.
Every lesson in this course was built around one core conviction: that your grief is uniquely yours, and it deserves to be honoured, not managed. We begin in the early days — with shock, overwhelm, and the strange disorientation of loss — and we move gently, at your pace, through the full human experience of grief. Guilt and anger. Loneliness and the dreaded "firsts." The question of who you are now. The tender work of keeping someone's memory alive without being swallowed by sorrow. And, gradually, the quiet rediscovery that life can hold both love and loss — that healing isn't a betrayal of the person you lost, but a continuation of the love you have for them.
There will be days when you don't want to open a lesson, and that's okay. There will be days when one small reflection is all you need, and that will be enough. I've kept each day intentionally gentle — a short lesson, a simple reflection, one small act — because I know that grief takes up enormous energy, and I don't want to add to your load. I want to lighten it, just a little, every single day.
You don't have to be ready to "move on." You don't have to know what healing looks like for you. You just have to be willing to show up — and this course will meet you there, gently, day after day, for a whole year. I'm glad you found your way here. You don't have to do this alone.
— Leigh Baumann
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