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Welcome to Integrated Wellbeing podcast for people in grief and the professionals who serve them. Please subscribe 🙏

We are here to provide education, inspiration, and practical tools for our audience by interviewing those bereaved by loss, mental health professionals, and grief specialists. Our mission at the Integrated Wellbeing Institute is to awaken the griever to their Inner Peace through the guidance of their body.

Find me and learn more about Integrated Wellbeing Institute here: ⁠⁠⁠https://integratedwellbeinginstitute.com⁠⁠⁠

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By phone: 503-309-3966 (USA)

Or email: georgena@georgenagrace.com

Grief is a lonely process and may feel isolating.

This interview explores the Benefits of a Bereavement Group:

• You know you are not alone in your grief.
• Someone is present for you in your grief.
• Someone is a witness to your grief.
• Closed group = meet with the same people to work through your process.
• People who have a similar loss can help each other.
• Open group = free to come anytime for as long as you want.
• Bereaved by suicide group = important to find a story that makes sense to you.

Joan Hoff worked at the Dougy Center for 28 years before retiring in June 2020. With over 40 years of experience, she coordinates peer support grief groups for children and families.

She has served on a variety of local and national boards, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Survivor Council, Suicide Bereavement Support Group, and the Willamette Falls Hospice Board of Directors.

She helped to develop and is a National trainer for the AFSP Support
Group for Children and Teens. She is a member of the National Office for Victims Assistance, the American Association for Suicidology, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the National Alliance for Grieving Children.

She conducts training nationally and internationally on issues related to program development; the impact of suicide, trauma, and violent death on children, teens, and their families; crisis response; and grief and loss issues for children and teens.

Personally, she has experienced the suicide death of her husband and is passionate about suicide prevention and postvention.
Her email:
joanshoff2020@gmail.com
The Suicide Bereavement Support NW: https://SBSNW.org
Coping After Suicide Loss Support Groups: https://www.copingaftersuicide.com/

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: https://afsp.org/
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Watch this interview on my YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@georgenagrace⁠