Tea Time: Finding Your Footing (Partner Loss/Spouse Loss)

# Tea Time: Finding Your Footing

A monthly support gathering for widowed people navigating the earlier seasons of life after loss

When your spouse or partner dies, almost everything can feel unfamiliar.

You may be learning how to get through ordinary days without your person, managing responsibilities they once shared, navigating changes in friendships and family relationships, dealing with grief brain and exhaustion, or simply trying to understand who you are in a life you never expected to be living.

Tea Time: Finding Your Footing is a welcoming monthly gathering specifically for widowed people who are still navigating these earlier seasons of life after loss.

There is no required timeline and no point at which you are supposed to have grief figured out. Some people may join within weeks or months of their loss; others may be farther out but still feel deeply immersed in the work of adjusting to life without their spouse or partner.

This is a space to connect with other widowed people who understand how disorienting this part of grief can be, talk about what you are experiencing, share what is helping, and sometimes simply be with people who get it.

You do not need to be ready to rebuild your life.
You do not need to know what comes next.
For now, you can just work on finding your footing.

### Is this the right group for me?

Finding Your Footing may be a good fit if you are:

• Widowed after the death of a spouse or partner
• Still adjusting to the day-to-day reality of life without your person
• Experiencing the overwhelm, exhaustion, uncertainty, or disorientation that often comes with earlier grief
• Looking for connection with other widowed people who are navigating a similar season

If you are farther along in your grief and find yourself thinking more about identity, rebuilding, relationships, purpose, or what you want your life to look like now, you may prefer Tea Time: What’s Next?, our monthly gathering for widowed people who are beyond the early period of acute grief and beginning to explore what comes next.
There is no specific number of months or years that determines which group is right for you. Grief does not follow a timetable. The distinction is more about where you feel you are in your experience of life after loss.

### When We Meet

Second Tuesdays of each month
4:30–5:30 PM Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
Free

Tea Time: Finding Your Footing is facilitated by AimeeJo Davis-Varela, Grief Support Specialist and Grief Educator. To learn more about AimeeJo or Healing After Loss with AimeeJo, visit HealingAfterLoss.com.

This is a peer-support and grief-education gathering and is not therapy or a substitute for mental health treatment.