Guided practices: 20+ short video lessons, journaling prompts, reflection pages, symbol-making exercises.
Grief changes us. But we do not have to disappear inside it.
A Soft Place to Land was created to help women gently turn toward grief instead of disconnecting from it.
Inside this course, you will be guided through reflective writing, symbolic language, movement, and creative practices that support emotional expression and nervous-system safety.This is not about “moving on” or forcing yourself to heal.
It is about learning how to walk beside your grief with greater steadiness, self-compassion, and self-trust. Over time, you may begin to notice moments of reconnection: to yourself, to life, to creativity, and to the possibility that you are still becoming.
A gentle creative practice you can return to again and again
One of the central practices inside A Soft Place to Land is a guided spiral-building process.
Using simple symbols, reflective prompts, movement, and creative exercises, you will gradually create a personal spiral artifact that represents both what you are carrying and what continues to support you
The spiral becomes a tangible practice you can return to over time. Especially during difficult days, transitions, anniversaries, or moments when grief feels especially close.
This process is designed to help participants:
- Express emotions symbolically
- Explore grief safely and gradually
- Reconnect with meaning and identity
- Hold both grief and life together visually and emotionally
No artistic experience is needed.
Inside A Soft Place to Land
Module 0. Welcome + Orientation
Learn how to move gently through the course, gather your materials, and begin creating a supportive space for yourself.
Module 1. The Ways We Disconnect from Our Grief
Explore common grief responses such as avoidance, numbing, busyness, and disconnection, with compassion and honesty.
Module 2. You Can Turn Toward Grief Safely.
Learn a gentle “approach and return” method for working with grief safely through writing, movement, and symbolic language.
Module 3. Tending to Loss.
Reflect on what you are carrying through guided writing, movement, and symbol-making practices as you begin building your spiral.
Module 4. Tending to Life.
Reconnect with what continues to support you through creative reflection and life-centered symbolic practices.
Module 5. Both/And.
Bring grief and life together through integration practices, symbolic meaning-making, and the completion of your spiral.
Module 6. Continuing the Practice.
Explore how to continue walking alongside grief with ongoing self-compassion, reflection, creativity, and support.
Inside this course, you will receive:
Creative tools: Printable workbook PDFs, printable spiral template, gentle creative exercises.
Movement: Seated and standing movement practices with nervous-system-aware pacing.
Access: Lifetime access, mobile-friendly, repeatable practices you can return to anytime.
Designed as a gentle but substantial self-paced experience, A Soft Place to Land offers supportive practices you can revisit again and again over time.
Testimonial
Client Success Stories
Marie D.
Jen’s compassion, kindness, and gift for space holding allowed me to recognize my grief and the myriad ways it is impacting my life. The combination of journaling, movement and art expression allowed me to feel seen and supported. She offered realistic tools to manage my emotions and process my grief in a safe supportive environment.
Cyndee N.
Jen’s coaching style is loving, respectful and kind. She‘s masterfully intuitive and offers insight that is spot on. I greatly value the time I spent working with her!
Susan B.
I have been so impressed by Jen’s capacity for deep listening. She is highly attuned to the nuances and moods of the group, responding to shared stories with great respect and insight. Her leaderships skills are evident in her ability to carefully coach participants to go a little deeper or see a new angle while she safely holds the space around their vulnerability.
Carol V.
Jen is good at leading people through a process of healing. She was there to support me through a time when I needed to let go of some traumatic experiences in my past so I could emerge and become a whole person again. She is caring, compassionate, insightful, and empathetic. I am grateful I had the chance to have her expertise to guide me.
This course was created to offer a gentle and meaningful first step for women navigating grief, loss, and profound life transition.
Hi, I'm Jen Ripa.
I am a grief guide, creative practitioner, and founder of Thrivologie.
For more than two decades I have worked with women navigating profound life transitions through coaching, creativity, and compassionate reflection. Thrivologie was born from the understanding that grief does not simply ask us to survive it asks us to rebuild our relationship with life itself.
Thrivologie was born from the understanding that grief does not simply ask us to survive. It asks us to rebuild our relationship with ourselves, our lives, and the world around us.
A Soft Place to Land was created to offer a gentle first step into that process.
You do not have to do this alone.
If you are here, you may be carrying a grief that few people truly understand.
- Feeling less alone inside their grief
- Greater ability to pause instead of numb or avoid
- Feeling more emotionally steady and supported
- Reconnecting with parts of themselves that felt distant
- Experiencing moments of breath, creativity, beauty, or meaning again
- Feeling more able to carry both grief and life together
- Having a tangible practice they can return to during difficult moments
Frequently Asked Questions
Things you probably wonder
This is a self-paced online course. You can begin immediately and move through it gently in your own time.
Not at all. The practices are designed for emotional expression and reflection rather than artistic skill.
This course is designed for women navigating grief, bereavement, identity shifts, or major life transitions.
The course is intentionally gentle and trauma-informed. You are always invited to move at your own pace and pause whenever needed.
You receive lifetime access to the course materials.
Most lessons are short and designed to fit gently into real life. Some participants move through the course over several days, others revisit it slowly over weeks or months.
No. This course is educational and supportive in nature and is not a substitute for therapy or medical care.
You do not have to rush your grief to begin reconnecting with yourself.
A Soft Place to Land offers a gentle first step through reflective writing, symbolic practices, movement, creativity, and compassionate guidance.
Move at your own pace. Return whenever you need. Begin exactly where you are.