Learn to carry love and loss — one day at a time
A gentle 365-day companion for people navigating grief — one short lesson, one reflection, and one small act of healing every day. Because loss doesn't follow a schedule, and neither does learning to live again.
Grief doesn't need to be fixed — it needs to be walked alongside, one honest day at a time.— Leigh Baumann
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise and name your own grief patterns so difficult emotions feel less overwhelming and more navigable
- Build a personalised daily ritual of reflection and coping that fits your life, your loss, and your timeline
- Work through guilt, regret, anger, and loneliness with guided frameworks tailored to how and who you lost
- Honour your loved one through meaningful, sustainable practices that keep the bond alive without freezing you in the past
- Rebuild a sense of identity, confidence, and purpose after a loss that may have changed who you thought you were
- Reach the one-year mark carrying both love and loss — not healed in the sense of forgetting, but genuinely living forward
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 · 32 lessons
The Early Days of Grief
Days 1–50. The first module meets participants exactly where they are — often in shock, disoriented, and overwhelmed. Before any deeper processing can begin, participants need a language for what they are experiencing, permission to feel it without judgment, and a minimum viable structure to get through each day. Lessons are gentle, normalising, and deliberately slow-paced. Personalisation (relationship type, circumstances of death, time since loss) is introduced here so every subsequent lesson feels relevant rather than generic.
- 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. By week seven or eight, the practical urgency of early grief — funerals, paperwork, the flood of condolences — has often receded, and a rawer, lonelier reality sets in. This module addresses the long middle of grief: the emotional complexity that emerges once shock lifts, the social withdrawal that can follow, the ambush of dates and sensory triggers, and the difficult art of receiving help. A gap addressed here is the explicit inclusion of physical grief symptoms and sleep disruption, which peak in this window and are frequently overlooked in grief curricula. This module also ensures the 'asking for support' lesson includes guidance specific to cause of death (e.g., stigma around suicide or overdose loss) as a personalisation bridge.
- 2.1Understanding Changing EmotionsIncluded
- 2.2When Grief Lives in the BodyIncluded
- 2.3Managing LonelinessIncluded
- 2.4Coping with Anniversaries and RemindersIncluded
- 2.5Asking For and Accepting SupportIncluded
Understanding Your Grief
Days 101–150. This is the module where participants turn inward in earnest. The practical scaffolding is in place, the acute shock has lessened, and the deeper, often more uncomfortable emotional terrain becomes accessible. This module addresses the most complex and frequently avoided emotional territory: guilt, regret, unanswered questions, anger, and profound sadness. It then builds the two internal resources needed to navigate them — self-compassion and meaning-making — in that order, because self-compassion is a prerequisite for meaning-making. A sequencing note: 'Understanding Anger and Sadness' is moved before 'Exploring Guilt and Regret' in this revision to ensure participants have a regulated emotional foundation before approaching the most cognitively loaded material.
- 3.1Understanding Anger and SadnessIncluded
- 3.2Exploring Guilt, Regret and Unanswered QuestionsIncluded
- 3.3Self-CompassionIncluded
- 3.4Finding Meaning in Your ExperienceIncluded
Honouring Their Life
Days 151–200. With the internal emotional work of Module 3 underway, participants are ready to shift focus outward — toward the person they lost and the relationship that continues beyond death. This module addresses one of the most important evolutions in grief theory: the move away from 'letting go' toward 'continuing bonds' — maintaining a loving, evolving connection with the person who died without being frozen in the past. A gap addressed here is the addition of a lesson on navigating the possessions, spaces, and digital presence of the person who died, which is a near-universal and deeply charged practical challenge that the original draft omitted.
- 4.1Keeping Memories AliveIncluded
- 4.2Navigating Their Belongings, Spaces and Digital PresenceIncluded
- 4.3Creating Healthy RitualsIncluded
- 4.4Continuing Bonds with Your Loved OneIncluded
- 4.5Finding Gratitude Alongside GriefIncluded
Rebuilding Yourself
Days 201–250. Loss — particularly the loss of a spouse, parent, child, or close friend — frequently disrupts a person's sense of identity: who they are without this relationship, this role, this person who knew them. This module addresses the inner reconstruction that must happen alongside the outward return to work, family, and social life. A gap addressed here is the explicit inclusion of grief and personal values — clarifying what matters most after loss — as a foundation for identity rebuilding. The original draft's 'Finding Moments of Hope' lesson is retained but reframed as a module-closing consolidation that integrates the identity and confidence work.
- 5.1Rediscovering IdentityIncluded
- 5.2Clarifying Values After LossIncluded
- 5.3Rebuilding ConfidenceIncluded
- 5.4Returning to Work, Family and RelationshipsIncluded
- 5.5Finding Moments of HopeIncluded
Living Forward
Days 251–300. This module opens up the horizon. Having done the internal work of understanding, processing, and rebuilding, participants now practise orienting toward the future while remaining anchored in who they are and who they have lost. A sequencing note from the original draft: 'Building Resilience' is moved from the end of this module to a standalone lesson positioned before 'Opening to New Experiences', because resilience is the capacity that makes new experience possible — it is a prerequisite, not a result. 'Carrying Love Without Being Defined by Loss' is retained as the module's emotional capstone.
- 6.1Navigating Future MilestonesIncluded
- 6.2Building ResilienceIncluded
- 6.3Opening to New ExperiencesIncluded
- 6.4Carrying Love Without Being Defined by LossIncluded
A Life That Includes Grief
Days 301–365. The final module is both a culmination and a beginning. It does not declare that grief is over — it demonstrates that grief has been integrated into a life that is genuinely being lived. Participants review and celebrate how far they have come, deepen their understanding of how grief will continue to evolve beyond the course, discover or solidify a sense of purpose that emerged from the loss, and create a personal plan for the next chapter. A gap addressed in this revision: a dedicated lesson on grief beyond the first year — what to expect, how to maintain the practices built during this course, and how to recognise if additional professional support is needed — ensuring participants leave with sustainable tools rather than a sense of abandonment at the course's end.
- 7.1Accepting That Grief Changes Over TimeIncluded
- 7.2Grief Beyond the First Year: Sustaining Your PracticeIncluded
- 7.3Finding Purpose After LossIncluded
- 7.4Honouring Both the Past and the FutureIncluded
- 7.5Celebrating Growth and Creating a Hopeful Next ChapterIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Recently bereaved spouses
You've lost your partner and with them a whole shared life — this course offers daily structure when everything familiar has collapsed.
Parents after child loss
No loss is more isolating — this course holds space for a grief that defies every expectation of how life should go.
Adult children losing a parent
Whether expected or sudden, the loss of a parent reshapes identity in ways this course quietly and steadily helps you work through.
Those grieving traumatic loss
If your loss was to suicide, overdose, or sudden tragedy, this course was built to hold your specific grief — guilt, questions, and all.
Long-term grief carriers
If you've been told to 'move on' but never really have, this year-long structure gives you the supported space you never got.
People grieving a close friend
Friendship grief is often invisible to the world — this course sees it, names it, and gives it the room it deserves.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Leigh Baumann
If you're here, you're probably carrying something very heavy right now. Maybe it just happened. Maybe it happened years ago and you've never quite found solid ground. Maybe you've been told — by well-meaning people, by the silence of others, by a world that moves on — that you should be doing better by now.
I want you to know: there is no should here.
What I've come to understand, through years of working with people in grief, is that what most of us need isn't a diagnosis or a roadmap with a finish line. We need someone to sit with us — patiently, unhurriedly — while we figure out what this loss actually means for us. We need language for the things that feel unspeakable. We need permission to feel contradictory things at the same time: love and anger, relief and guilt, gratitude and devastation. We need to be told, more than once, that we are not broken.
That's what I've tried to build here. Each lesson in this course is short on purpose. Each reflection is open-ended on purpose. Because grief is not a problem to be solved — it's an experience to be moved through, at your own pace, in your own way. The curriculum covers everything from the early shock and overwhelm, through the body-level weight of grief, through the harder emotions like guilt, regret, and anger, all the way to rebuilding your sense of who you are and what your life can look like now. It holds space for the losses the world doesn't always honour — suicide, overdose, pregnancy loss — and it never asks you to perform recovery you don't feel.
By the end of this year — your year — I hope you'll have a daily practice that genuinely fits your life, a clearer sense of your own grief patterns, and a relationship with your loss that has softened enough to let other things in. Not healed. Not over it. Just living forward, with love still intact.
You don't have to be ready. You just have to begin.
— Leigh Baumann
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