Life After Loss Academy

Yes. Life After Loss Academy acknowledges that grief includes both death and non-death losses. (That’s why it’s called Life After Loss Academy, not Life After Death Academy!) Past students have followed its framework to grieve: - divorce / breakup - major diagnosis - estrangement - separation from religious community - pet loss - financial loss - a geographic move or symbolic loss of home - “felt” losses such as loss of identity, innocence, safety, creativity, and spirit / connection to the Divine.

Past students have enrolled at time frames ranging from a few months after a devastating loss to years down the road. No matter how long it’s been since your loss(es), LALA’s framework is designed to help you reorient to the world and form a lifelong relationship with grief.

Because we sometimes explore adult themes (drug/alcohol use, sex and sexuality, and so on) and use adult language to describe grief (no censored swearing here!), LALA is intended for people 18 years and older.

Two reasons: 1) Therapy is generally past-oriented, helping you process what happened and make sense of it now in the present. Life After Loss Academy is predominantly future-oriented, considering where you’d like to go and providing you with the roadmap you need to get there. Yes, we’ll talk about the past, but my real focus is where you want to end up. 2) Grief is just one component of the therapy umbrella. Most grief counselors receive a master's degree in community counseling, mental health counseling, or family counseling, and specific coursework on grief, at least in the United States, is sadly optional or nonexistent. [SOURCE] When you enroll in Life After Loss Academy, you get a deep dive into grief and only grief. My sole mission as your guide is to help you name and process your losses and develop a lifetime partnership with grief. Please know, I have absolutely nothing against therapy and have employed it myself to mourn many types of losses. But LALA is not therapy; it was never designed to be. It makes a wonderful compliment to therapy—if you’re already in it—and an affordable alternative if you’re interested in receiving laser-focused support for grief and loss.

The course, coaching, and community are all hosted on Circle, an all-in-one platform that acts as a private, inclusive space for everything we do inside Life After Loss Academy. You may have seen outdated Life After Loss Academy materials refer to a private Facebook group, but as a community, we made the decision to switch platforms after Facebook instituted a new policy in 2025 deleting replays of live videos. Circle is our home base now!

Just like grief, “completing” life after loss has no timeline. Your experience with LALA will depend on what other tools and practices you’ve used to navigate grief thus far, how deeply you engage with the homework and live calls, and how much you’re able to hold focus and attention (because grief brain is REAL, y’all!). That being said, most students start feeling better after completing the first module, GROUND, and most students finish working through the course anywhere between two and six months. Keep in mind, that your goal is not to make it to the end of the course, but to build a lifetime partnership with grief. This course is designed to revisit again and again as new losses inevitably surface in your life.

Both! The course modules, lessons, workshops, and mini-courses are recorded so you can learn at your own pace on your own time. But I totally get that grief is a living thing, and it needs to be witnessed and held in the company of others. That’s why every week, I show up in the LALA community for a “Deep Dive in 25” coaching call. I’ll take your questions and address your unique grief as we come back to life after loss together. You can also use the community as a sounding board for suggestions and to commemorate your milestones and griefiversaries as they arise.

Video material—including course lessons, workshops, meditations, and live coaching calls—includes auto-generated closed captioning. All workbooks and digital downloads are available as PDFs. Video, photo, audio, and written materials shared by students in the LALA community may not be accessible and are subject to the accessibility measures Circle has in place.

If you determine that Life After Loss Academy isn’t for you or if your life circumstances change (thank you, grief!), you can cancel your membership at any time, no questions asked. You have total control of your membership through your Circle account. Once you cancel your LALA membership, you won’t be charged again.

As soon as you enroll, you’ll be sent a welcome email to access Life After Loss Academy. The welcome lessons, all bonuses, and the first module, GROUND, are available to you, and you can start right away. The remaining four modules (RELEASE, INTEGRATE, ESTABLISH, and FOSTER) will be released one at a time every 14 days. Inside the Welcome lesson, you’ll find a step-by-step walkthrough of the LALA community. Take a moment to introduce yourself, share your loss story, and be welcomed by your fellow students. I’ll see you soon during our next “Deep Dive in 25” coaching call!