I believe grief is one of the most challenging experiences we will face in this lifetime. It’s profoundly disorienting, multi-layered, and multi-dimensional. When grief hits, it hits our whole being - body, mind, and spirit.
But amidst this vast ocean and tidal wave of emotions, here’s a life raft to stay afloat.
I’m grateful you’re here. There’s hope. There are resources. There are ways to navigate these uncharted waters.
From my years of personally working through grief and professionally training, teaching, and continually learning, I’d like to introduce a pathway called “Compassionate Grieving.”
Filled with grief techniques, movement practices, and somatic release, along with normalizing grief, unlearning what you might have learned about grief, and re-educating for effective grieving, is a journey to support your heart and mind.
Below are details of how to work with me.
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AmarAtma
Hello Friend,
AmarAtma | Grief Specialist
And Letting go Coach
I'm sorry you or a loved one is going through this tough time, and I'm grateful you're here.
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- Jamie Anderson
Like a program running on the computer taking up all the processing speed, we try to push through. It's unrelenting, making everything more difficult, especially putting on a good face like everything's fine—time to release.
Overwhelmed...
We wish it was one feeling, but know it's a tidal wave of emotions. We do our best to navigate, but sometimes it's too much, and we feel like we're drowning—time to heal.
Exhausted...
When grief hits, it hits hard. It can derail us, dimming our light and our spirit. The sadness can be unrelenting. It's like an unwanted guest that's taken an indefinite residence in our heart—time to give it notice.
Sadness...
Grief comes with all the feels...
No. Grief is a universal response. Every human being and living creature will experience grief and loss. It's an experience we all face.
Unfortunately, you've never been taught two essential life skills- how to grieve and how to let go. The old ways of suppressing, masking, bypassing, burying, and suffocating just to be strong and move on will unfortunately make you feel worse. It's an archaic way of thinking about grief that needs an upgrade.
Instead, let's create an invitation to change the narrative about grief and recognize grief is about love. "Grief is love that has nowhere to go..." The way of Compassionate Grieving is learning how to create a flow so that this love has a place to go. There's a way through. There's a way to relief and peace.
Here's a bold statement...
Your grief is not a problem that needs fixing.
Introducing Compassionate Grieving
A Multi-Faceted, Heart-Centered, Self-Love Methodology for Grief
Whether a recent death or a death that happened long ago. Whether a loss of a parent, a sibling or a child, a best friend, a relative or a fur baby. Whether it was from an accident or a longstanding illness, there are ways to support your grief journey. Supporting you through celebrations of life, holidays, death anniversaries, and birthdays by curating rituals, ceremonies, and remembrance events.
Death Related Grief
Supporting You on Your Journey of...
Sometimes death, death-related loss feels so big that the non-death-related losses are forgotten. But they are also crucial, from divorces, breakups, and separation to career changes, layoffs, retirements, estrangements, and family conflicts. Even health-related losses like chronic pain, autoimmune, new diagnosis, or fertility are potent forms of loss that can be supported. These can be moves, loss of friendships, financial-related losses, or life transitions. Like a grief backpack, we carry many invisible losses.
Non-Death Related Grief
Abstract grief include intangible losses, like loss of identity, innocence, or faith. They also include collective grief, intergenerational grief, or anticipatory grief. They could be a loss of a dream or vision of your life and care need for life transitions connected to a quarter/third/mid-life crisis. They can be losses connected to people close to you who are still alive with whom you want to have a better relationship. These losses are interspersed with life—like the grief underneath the grief—but they are potential forms of loss that need support.
Abstract Related Grief
Old grief and inner childhood wounds. Helping you release guilt, regrets, anger, sadness, anxiety, and shame. Helping you release negative self-talk, people-pleasing, performative living, and self-limiting beliefs. Helping you make amends or forgive where harm was done, and teach you how to be with emotions without feeling like drowning or getting overwhelmed.
Helping You Release...
Exactly... I'm Ready to Heal
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
- Mark Twain
The inner strength developed through facing and moving through grief. It’s the capacity to bend without breaking, to rise after each emotional wave, and to trust in your ability to navigate future challenges with a sense of stability and courage.
Resilience
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Real Goals and Real Benefits
The feeling of release that comes when the weight of unspoken emotions is acknowledged and processed. It’s the deep exhale, the letting go of burdens that have been silently carried, allowing space for healing and lightness to return.
Relief
02
The rekindling of vitality and energy, allowing the heart to feel again. It’s the sensation of being fully present, connected to life, and open to experiencing joy, love, and all that the world offers, even after loss.
Aliveness
03
The feeling of being grounded and resourced within the depths of grief. It’s the shift from feeling powerless and overwhelmed to having inner confidence even amidst an uncertain future.
Empowerment
04
I Need This! I'm Ready!
Coaching Client
Sessions with AmarAtma was the best investment I have ever made. Their impact ripples out in ways that I am so grateful for.
Coaching Client
AmarAtma’s expertise, intuitive understanding and genuine commitment to grief coaching is ABSOLUTELY a gift to yourself that will change your life. He goes beyond the sessions to assist you and the healing power of his sensitive and loving heart and soul is truly a rare and precious treasure.
Coaching Client
Everything is easier! I feel better. I'm less reactive with my emotions. I kinder to my spouse. It's amazing!
Coaching Client
My father gave me the most amazing feedback recently. "You are not the same person you were years ago, and I am very happy for you." My life is completely different from what it was a year ago and I am grateful for this work with AmarAtma.
Coaching Client
I was experiencing a chronic disappointment in my life. I was sad, irritable, and angry. We lost our baby at 20 weeks gestation. AmarAtma helped me to let go of the anger and frustration festering inside. I'm able to stop the anxiety loop cycle I've struggled with my whole life. My recommendation: DO IT! It was wonderful.
I’m a Grief Coach with advanced certification as a Grief Recovery Specialist. I have board Certification in Chaplaincy and Chinese Medicine. I have a duel Master’s Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ministry. I’ve spent the last 20 years learning all about grief, personally and professionally, figuring out the simplest and easiest way to handle the most challenging and heaviest experience of our life - grief.
I'm excited to share it all with you!!
I'm AmarAtma,
Grief Specialist and Letting Go Coach
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Going beyond Grief Work, this program serves the journey toward Sustainable Joy! AmarAtma helps you clarify your goals, actualize dreams, and work through belief systems for you to live the "Unscripted Life."
6 Month Experiential
Ready to truly feel relief? Connect with AmarAtma for this 12-session package for more profound grief work. This 90-day container is a perfect way to learn new grief tools, release grief burdens, and start feeling ALIVE!
12 Session Package
Tap into AmarAtma's expertise for a one-off session. Get clarity about your grief and the type of loss you're experiencing, and gain effective tools that will make a difference even in one session.
Single Session
Working with AmarAtma
I'm Ready! Let's Do this
All sessions done through Zoom. Working with you in your time zone, with grief services in the comfort of your home. No restriction based on location. Personal service with world-renowned grief specialist AmarAtma from anywhere in the world!
75min one-to-one sessions with a dedicated time slot specifically for you. Full attention and support on your goals and needs. Each session is a combination of personal reflection with exercises in letting go.
This is not just work with a professional listener - this is a how to for grief. Weekly "heartwork" assignments, coaching style techniques, reflection prompts, and a methodology plus a handbook are all utilized. Peace is active not passive - coaching helps show the way.
Weekly Sessions
Virtual Service
Caring for the nervous system is essential in our modern times. Mindfulness and Mindful Movement exercises are integrated into the coaching program. Recognizing grief hits at many levels and the body often carries the burden, somatic exercises are utilized to help with release.
Somatic Release
A care trajectory with a beginning, middle, and end. Recovery doesn't require years of service. Sometimes the support we need are resources to feel equipped. Grief is an essential life skill we've never been taught.
A Coaching Program
Taking into account heavy emotions can be scary, this coaching program is all about gentleness and safety. The goal is relief, but not through pushing or achieving. This coaching service is all about softness, sweetness, and gentleness.
Gentle Approach
A Coaching Service
Compassionate Grieving 1:1 Program
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"I’m having a hard time expressing just how incredibly grateful I am for the work AmarAtma does. I stumbled upon an Instagram post of his, about grief, in August of 2021. This was just weeks after my whole world had just fallen apart. I was dealing with the 4 year anniversary of my moms death, my life had spiraled out of control, and I found myself in the lowest place I’ve ever been. I had no idea that I had unresolved grief, but I did know I was miserable.
After reading AmarAtma’s post about grief I requested his free e-book which opened my eyes to just how much grief I was (not) dealing with, and how it was playing a hugely negative role in my life. I felt compelled to reach out for a consultation. I remember feeling so uncomfortable taking that first step, and then feeling so at ease and even excited after the call. I immediately signed up for the 12 week grief program and I can confidently say that decision has changed the trajectory of my life!
I have completed the 12 week grief program and have moved into weekly life coaching with AmarAtma and every single week I see growth and progress in myself. I am forever grateful for the wisdom, compassion and strategies AmarAtma has shared with me and how I’ve been able to turn my life into something worth living again!"
Grief Client
"I was dealing with the 4 year anniversary of my mom's death, my life had spiraled out of control, and I found myself in the lowest place I’ve ever been."
"I came to AmarAtma's work because I was grieving a friend I was estranged from and recently learned he was dying. I was floundering in my grief and old beliefs and felt tremendous guilt about our estrangement- I felt it was my fault. Through Grief Coaching with AmarAtma I learned how to get a better handle of my grief and recover from this toxic relationship and toxic relationships that surrounded this old friend of mine. My coach invited me to "deep dive" into my feelings and purge them. At first, it was hard to let go of my anger and find something to fill up the hole losing it would create. But the process was really helpful. I am free from the power of the words that hurt me! My friend died during my coaching service with AmarAtma. He helped me prepare for his funeral and face what I dreaded with all those toxic relationships. I got to experience how far I've come and went through the funeral without all the raw emotions I initially felt. Now, I find I'm pretty light-hearted, and I'm happier than I've been in years. I experience self-praise, joy in who I am, and contentment that I'm where I need to be. If there's something I can share with someone who's wondering about starting this program, this is what I would say, be prepared to give up what you've been holding on to. I didn't know how to let go, and I didn't realize how holding on made my life so miserable. Liberating!!"
Grief Client
"Now, I find I'm pretty light-hearted, and I'm happier than I've been in years."
There were many reasons why I sought out Grief Coaching with AmarAtma. Initially, it was to grieve the loss of many close people in my life, which then turned into grieving my life before marriage and moving away from my home and family. I sought Grief Coaching because I needed someone to focus on the losses with me. My biggest obstacle was thinking I could do it on my own, which I told myself for months. It's been something I have struggled with for a long time, and as I kept losing people, my thoughts would spiral more and more. Life felt quiet, eerie, and still. I felt as if I had no direction and didn't know how to comprehend the death of my loved ones.
Since working with AmarAtma, I have been able to achieve confidence in myself. He validated me for what I was thinking and feeling made me feel like I made sense. I am still deeply saddened at the losses I have experienced, but instead of feeling angry and confused, I feel that it is OK. Now I have practices, tools, and resources. If I feel very sad about someone I lost, there are things I can write or say to myself that will make me feel better. I feel like I am back to myself after years. I believe I will always be a work in progress, just like everyone else. The difference is that now I am motivated to be the best version of myself and to be open-minded to what will come my way.
For those exploring this work, I would tell them that it is life-changing and that there is so much more to grief aside from the physical loss of someone.
Grief Client
"I have never had a coach or therapist before, and finding AmarAtma felt like home. I feel like I am back to myself after years of feeling discounted and lost."
"I connected to AmarAtma through his posts on Instagram and realized grief not only comes when someone dies, but it can also come from a variety of losses. I felt that. I was going through a spell of depression and a lot of anxiety… kind of stuck and broken. I lost a lot in my lifetime, more than I even realized. I lost friendships and my lifestyle due to Covid, experienced a house fire, and experienced many friends pass away… many, many things. I was desperate to feel better. AmarAtma made me feel comfortable, and I felt understood. There was no judgment, and the grief as the primary focus made this really special for me. I was definitely afraid to face and deal with my problems, but I’m grateful to say I have gotten out of that depression funk! Anxiety is lessening! I now know many more ways to help me maintain a better state of mind. My entire mental state has improved, and I no longer hold on to guilt, anger, and other emotions that we worked through regarding my heavy losses. I feel out of the depression fog, with less anxiety and a huge amount of inner peace. Amar Atma has helped me so greatly in releasing emotions I have carried for such a long time! Like a huge boulder was broken apart and released!"
Grief Client
"I no longer hold on to guilt, anger, and other emotions... I feel out of the depression fog, with less anxiety and a huge amount of inner peace."
"I was feeling stuck in my grief journey. I was struggling to find peace and meaning in my life after my husband died of cancer 4 years after we got married. I had a lot of looped thoughts around past conversations, anxiety, insomnia, restless during the day and a hopeless worry about life. I was looking for a way to make peace with the past, process the trauma from caregiver burnout and rediscover my faith. AmarAtma's approach of mindfulness along with grief coaching helped me to go deep within myself and rediscover my faith. I learned how to forgive myself and others and that's been the most life changing. I was also learned how to shift from my mind to my heart space. I feel at peace with my past, and the conversations in my head that use to bother me have quieted. I have grown and evolved and now look forward to new life experiences. I have gained skills and mindset and mindfulness techniques to go through grief and have confidence to face challenges with courage and strength. If you're stuck in the past, pain, grief, or trauma this coaching will not only heal you, but give you life long skills! AmarAtma is incredible and amazing at this job, I wouldn't change anything!
- Grief Client
"If you're stuck in the past, pain, grief, or trauma this coaching will not only heal you, but give you life long skills!"
"Initially, it was my work with Covid patients as a nurse. I was really struggling in my day-to-day. I was fatigued and cranky and really had a sense of loss that I couldn’t quite pinpoint. I was tired and hopeless. I had very low self-esteem and everything seemed to bring me down. I wanted to find myself again. I was dealing with a loss of self, which later I identified as unresolved grief. I’m terrible about asking for help or admitting I need it. I was also fearful about being vulnerable. It’s not counseling, it's coaching. It’s not a session about feelings and circumstances, but what we can do to cope and move through our loss. A new and renewed energy, coping skills, a sense of self and a true recognition of what being centered means. I am now rooted in gratitude. I no longer feel the need to judge my actions and am able to participate in self praise. Energy, grounded-ness and improved relationships and grace for myself and for others are a regular experience for me. My recommendation: Do it!! It’s better than anything out there and will change your life if you’ll let it. AmarAtma is truly a gift. I consider myself so lucky to know him. He helped saved me from a deeply dark time of my life!"
Grief Client
"Do it!! It’s better than anything out there and will change your life if you’ll let it."
"I wanted to take a moment to recognize AmarAtma’s skill set and compassion as a grief and life coach.
What began for me was a big emotional tangle with high levels of anxiety. I called how I felt: ”my raggedy Ann stuffing was coming out” after providing nursing care through the COVID-19 pandemic in the Bay Area. I could not find my way back to center and navigating my true north become more difficult.
We began with grief work and he supported me through some very scary emotional unknowns. He of course was very well versed in the roller coaster of emotions I experienced and held my hand throughout the experience (Zoom was perfect!). I am changed. I’m whole. I am resilient. I could not have navigated my journey alone. I’m forever grateful for our work together. If you have any concerns, trust the process and AmarAtma’s gifts. You’ll be blessed for it."
Grief Client
"I am changed. I’m whole. I am resilient. I could not have navigated my journey alone."
"After over a year of working with each other, AmarAtma has been witness to extreme highs and lows within my life and I’m incredibly grateful to have his support throughout all of it. We’ve cultivated ways to overcome and work through anxiety, depression, and other heavy aspects of life, AmarAtma has coached me through lessons in grief work and helped me to better grasp my own healing and as a product learned how to truly experience joy. I look forward to our sessions each week and the lessons that I will get to learn. It’s been one of the biggest wonders in my life to share space with someone who listens, coaches, and loves so authentically all while putting in the own work himself which continues to inspire me. I’ve experienced an immense amount of growth during the course of our time together and because of that gained a deeper appreciation for life. I’m incredibly grateful to have been shown how to process the heartache, dive deep into grief and articulate dreams along with way. I’m constantly surprised and proud of my own growth that’s stemmed from grief work and overall deep diving into self work that has been guided by AmarAtma, I think that this is a tool and practice that can benefit everyones life and I’m so thankful to be able to experience this work. It’s not about getting over all the hard stuff we experience in life but getting through it, releasing pain and shame and feeling more equipped to fully experience the beauty all the pain and joy to come. "
Grief Client
"When I think of the frientors in my life, the first person that comes to mind is AmarAtma. The ultimate friend and mentor."
After my husband passed, I was looking for new ways to find purpose and joy in my life. His calm presence invited me to share when normally I don't feel comfortable to express. He really makes me feel like I'm the only person he works with! I was so surprised by how a series of simple exercises really moved me to a new space of awareness. He helped me get in tune with how I was feeling. I'm better for it and process my grief. I highly recommend him for grief coaching!
Grief Client
"Amar Atma really helped me through a challenging time."
“Before I spoke with Amar Atma, I had just graduated from my integrative medicine fellowship and was wondering what to do next. I was unsure of where to go with this and how to pursue my life’s long mission to help others connect with their meaning and their spiritual health. I was in great need for clarity. Amar Atma kindly offered a coaching session that was transformational for me. He held the space with compassion and helped me see what was holding me back. I gained a different perspective of things and the clarity and inspiration I was looking for. He used my own deeply held values to help me move forward with confidence and a clear understanding of myself and what inspires me. If you are looking for that strong insightful deeper presence to help you transform your life, then Amar Atma is that person!”
SIMRAN RATTAN MD
"Amar Atma used my own deeply held values to help me move forward."
You're seeking therapy. We won't be doing psychoanalysis or cognitive behavioral therapy. While sessions are therapeutic, this service is not therapy.
Unable to be consistent with the schedule. While weekly sessions is not required, building a momentum is important. Each session builds upon the other. The impact is cumulative.
You're not interested in doing "the work." This is a coaching program where we'll utilize techniques in and out of coaching sessions to help find relief. The only way out of grief is through.
This is not for you if...
Sick and tired of being sick and tired. Feel powerless or helpless in your grief and wanting do something about it? Yes! Many of us become resigned to a life of suffering. No, there are things we can do. This is coaching program for those motivated to taking that alchemical step.
This is for you if you are...
Interested in actionable steps. Grief is part of life - it's inevitable. Weekly coaching with "Heartwork" exercises and techniques help pave the path to for you become resourced and equipped to face grief.
Ready to let go. Letting go is so challenging when we don't know how. Gratefully, it's a skill than anyone can learn. Once we learn and feel equipped, we can reclaim feelings of aliveness.
Payment plans are available. We can review your options on our call.
Are payment plans available?
I work with people in varying fields, including healthcare, where schedules are hectic. Sessions do not have to be at the same time each week. Sessions do not have to be every week, though we want to keep momentum. I sometimes suggest taking a week off to integrate from a session. It's more accurately 12 sessions than 12 weeks.
Does each session have to be each week or at the same time each week?
Yes! We experience many more losses than death. Over 40 types of losses exist, ranging from death, and divorce to moves, education, job change, friendship loss, pet loss, financial difficulties, to shifts in faith, spirituality, or community. This grief program supports the varying losses we grieve, especially as it's personalized support for you. Whether several losses or multiple losses, we can accommodate and support.
I've experienced loss besides death, can this work for me?
Simply click on this link to schedule with AmarAtma. The first call is 30min and free as an exploration of working together. After you schedule a time, you'll be prompted to a short questionnaire that will support AmarAtma in serving you. Bring your questions and concerns, and expect to give insight to about your goals for this work with AmarAtma.
How do I get started?
About one to two hours per week. As this is a coaching program and much of the challenges we face about grief is that we are under-equipped and under-resourced, techniques, reflections, and exercises help to support the individual sessions. Sessions 7-9 are the weeks with the most extended reflections. These sessions are the meat of our grief coaching program.
How much commitment is required in-between each session?
This service is specialized for someone experiencing any type of grief - acute or chronic. There are many misconceptions about grief that keep us stuck. Unfortunately, some of these myths don't help and can be detrimental to our healing journey. In the initial sessions, we create a healthy foundation to grieve effectively.
I just experienceed a death in the family, is this too soon to work for me?
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