Learn to carry your loss — and still find your way forward
A 365-day personalised healing companion that meets you exactly where you are — offering a short daily lesson, reflection, and gentle practice to help you process loss, honour your loved one, and gradually learn to live again.
"I won't ask you to move on — I'll just sit beside you while you find your way forward."— Leigh Baumann
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise and name the full spectrum of your grief emotions — shock, anger, guilt, sadness, and love — without shame or judgment.
- Build a personalised daily rhythm of small, sustainable coping practices that bring moments of steadiness to even the hardest days.
- Navigate the 'firsts' — anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, and ordinary triggers — with practical strategies and prepared emotional grounding.
- Create meaningful, lasting rituals that keep your loved one present in your life while allowing you to move forward.
- Rebuild a sense of identity, confidence, and purpose that holds both who you were before the loss and who you are becoming.
- Discover that healing is not about forgetting — and carry your love and your loss together as a permanent, integrated part of your whole life.
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 · 33 lessons
The Early Days of Grief
Days 1–50. The opening module meets participants exactly where they are — in the rawness of early loss. Before anything can be processed or rebuilt, participants need to feel safe, seen, and not alone. Lessons are gentle, short, and grounding, establishing the daily rhythm of the course while honouring that the first weeks can feel surreal, overwhelming, and utterly unlike ordinary life. This module directly supports Outcome 1 (naming emotions without shame) and Outcome 2 (building a daily coping rhythm).
- 1.1Understanding GriefIncluded
- 1.2Coping With Shock and OverwhelmIncluded
- 1.3Making Space for EmotionsIncluded
- 1.4Creating Safety and Daily RoutinesIncluded
Living With Loss
Days 51–100. The initial shock begins to lift — and for many participants, this is when the true weight of loss settles in. The world has moved on, but the grief has not. This module addresses the complex emotional terrain of living with an ongoing, evolving loss: shifting emotions, loneliness, the ambush of ordinary triggers, and the challenge of accepting support. A new lesson is added here to explicitly address the 'firsts' experience that participants will encounter throughout the year, directly fulfilling Outcome 3 before those dates arrive.
- 2.1Understanding Changing EmotionsIncluded
- 2.2Managing LonelinessIncluded
- 2.3Preparing for Firsts: Anniversaries, Birthdays and Unexpected TriggersIncluded
- 2.4Asking for and Accepting SupportIncluded
Understanding Your Grief
Days 101–150. With the foundations of coping in place, participants are now ready to go deeper — to examine the more complex and often unspoken dimensions of grief: guilt, regret, unanswered questions, anger, sadness, and the crucial practice of self-compassion. A new lesson on the relationship between grief and the body is added here, addressing a genuine prerequisite gap: physical symptoms of grief are common, disorienting, and under-discussed, and without this knowledge participants may misinterpret or dismiss their body's signals. This module most directly advances Outcome 1 (full emotional spectrum) and lays the ground for Outcome 5 (rebuilding identity).
- 3.1Grief and the BodyIncluded
- 3.2Exploring Guilt, Regret and Unanswered QuestionsIncluded
- 3.3Understanding Anger and SadnessIncluded
- 3.4Self-CompassionIncluded
- 3.5Finding Meaning in Your ExperienceIncluded
Honouring Their Life
Days 151–200. Having done the harder internal work of understanding grief's emotional complexity, participants are now ready to turn outward — toward the person they have lost — in a spirit of love and intentional remembrance rather than pain alone. This module directly fulfils Outcome 4 (creating meaningful, lasting rituals) and reinforces the course's central premise: that healing is not about forgetting. A new lesson on navigating grief within relationships and family is added here to address a significant real-world gap: participants do not grieve in isolation, and tensions, differences, and disconnections with other grieving people are a common and painful challenge.
- 4.1Keeping Memories AliveIncluded
- 4.2Creating Healthy RitualsIncluded
- 4.3Continuing Bonds With Your Loved OneIncluded
- 4.4Navigating Grief With Others: Family, Friends and RelationshipsIncluded
- 4.5Finding Gratitude Alongside GriefIncluded
Rebuilding Yourself
Days 201–250. A significant loss does not only take a person — it takes parts of the self. Identity, confidence, roles, routines, and future plans may all be dismantled. This module guides participants through the careful, non-linear work of rediscovering who they are now — not returning to who they were before, but finding a self that is larger for having loved and lost. It directly advances Outcome 5 (rebuilding identity, confidence, and purpose) and begins the transition toward Outcome 6 (carrying love and loss together). A new lesson on the particular grief of secondary losses is added here as a prerequisite for identity work.
- 5.1Understanding Secondary LossesIncluded
- 5.2Rediscovering IdentityIncluded
- 5.3Rebuilding ConfidenceIncluded
- 5.4Returning to Work, Family and RelationshipsIncluded
- 5.5Finding Moments of HopeIncluded
Living Forward
Days 251–300. The course now moves into the terrain of active, intentional forward movement — not away from grief, but forward with it. Participants learn to navigate future milestones, open gradually to new experiences, and begin the essential work of understanding what resilience truly means in the context of grief. A new lesson on the distinction between 'moving on' and 'moving forward' is added here as a critical conceptual and emotional prerequisite: without this clarity, participants may experience guilt or resistance as they engage with new experiences. This module advances Outcomes 5 and 6.
- 6.1Moving Forward, Not Moving OnIncluded
- 6.2Navigating Future MilestonesIncluded
- 6.3Opening to New ExperiencesIncluded
- 6.4Carrying Love Without Being Defined by LossIncluded
- 6.5Building ResilienceIncluded
A Life That Includes Grief
Days 301–365. The final module is the culmination of the year — a space to integrate, consolidate, celebrate, and look honestly and hopefully toward the future. It does not promise resolution or closure; it offers something more truthful: the possibility of a whole, meaningful life that carries both love and loss as integrated, permanent parts of the self. All six outcomes converge here. A new lesson on preparing for life after the course explicitly addresses the real-world transition challenge of ending a year-long daily support structure — a genuine and important gap in the draft.
- 7.1Accepting That Grief Changes Over TimeIncluded
- 7.2Finding Purpose After LossIncluded
- 7.3Honouring Both the Past and the FutureIncluded
- 7.4Preparing for Life After This CourseIncluded
- 7.5Celebrating Growth and Creating a Hopeful Next ChapterIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The newly bereaved
Still in the fog of early loss, they need a gentle daily structure to help them simply get through each day without feeling abandoned or overwhelmed.
The grieving partner
They've lost the person who was their daily life, and they need support rebuilding identity, routine, and a sense of future that can hold both love and loss.
The long-term griever
Months or years on, they still carry a weight that others assume has lifted — and they want space to finally process what they've never had the right support to explore.
The parent who has lost a child
Facing a grief that reorders everything, they need compassionate, unhurried lessons that honour the depth of their loss without minimising or rushing it.
The adult child
They've lost a parent and are navigating both the grief itself and a quietly shifted sense of who they are without the person who knew them longest.
The quiet carer
They held everything together for everyone else and never made room for their own grief — now they're ready to gently, privately, begin.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Leigh Baumann
If you've found your way here, something in your life has broken open. Maybe it happened recently and you're still in that strange, stunned place where the world keeps moving but you can't quite move with it. Or maybe it happened a while ago and you've been quietly carrying something heavy that nobody around you seems to know how to talk about anymore. Either way — I see you. And I'm glad you're here.
I built A Year of Grief because I know what it feels like to look for support and find things that are either too clinical, too quick, or too cheerful. Resources that talk about 'stages' as though grief is a staircase you climb once and leave behind. What I wanted — and what I couldn't find — was something that would simply sit beside me. Something unhurried and honest, that would show up for me every single day, and never once suggest I should be further along than I was.
This course is that companion. Over 365 days, across seven modules, we move through the full arc of loss together — from the raw, disorienting shock of the early days, through the complicated terrain of guilt, anger, loneliness, and love, all the way to rebuilding your sense of self and learning what it means to live forward. We talk about the things that often go unspoken: the way grief lives in the body, the 'firsts' that loom on the calendar, the strange guilt of a good day, and the slow, tender work of figuring out who you are now that your world has changed.
I know the worry that says: if I heal, I'm leaving them behind. I want you to know — from the very first lesson to the last — that this course is not about forgetting. It is not about moving on. It is about learning to carry your love and your loss together, as a permanent, integrated part of a whole life. Your person remains. Your love remains. What we work on, gently and without pressure, is making just enough room beside the grief for you to breathe, and live, and one day — in your own time — hope again.
You don't have to be ready. You just have to begin. I'll be here every day.
— Leigh Baumann
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