Amanda Farrat is the founder of Value Yourself Counseling, a certified emotional wellness counselor, Advanced EFT Practitioner, and professional speaker. Amanda has a prolonged history of education and experience in the mental health and wellness field and social services. She received her undergraduate degree in Family Science from Montana State University and later pursued a Master of Social Work. Amanda left the program to attend to her own needs after facing numerous difficult losses in a short span of time. Although her healing journey has not been easy, Amanda has gained the confidence and resilience to meet challenges head-on with compassion and curiosity. She uses her education, experience, skills, intuition, and passion to help other women make peace with their past, fall in love with their present, and get excited about their future.

Key Takeaways:

• Amanda shares her story of loss.
• Amanda went through a series of losses without having the proper time to grieve until her body said "no" and her health started to deteriorate.
• It is important to return to "life" after a loss but it is crucial to have a space of grace, peace, and forgiveness allowing people to have emotional and psychological safety for them to re-acclimate to the world.
• Pulling back from the world can be a reality when you are grieving.
• When grieving, doing something outside of yourself and for others can be liberating.
• Amanda shares how she learned to hold space for people who are grieving.
• Loss can become an opportunity to rebuild and reinvent.
• We are storytellers and when we have a loss our personal stories need to be rewritten.
• Have some grace and compassion with yourself, find your support system.
• Do nothing and let your higher power show you what you have to do next.
• Amanda teaches a quick trip when you feel tears coming out and you are somewhere when you don't want to be seen crying.

Resources

Tendrilsofgrief.com

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