The Course
After the Fall™ is a six-week, self-guided program created for those navigating life after loss, upheaval, or emotional collapse - when the world you knew no longer fits and the way forward feels unclear.
Rather than pushing for healing or resolution, this course focuses on stabilization, integration, and gentle rebuilding. You’ll be guided through practices that support nervous-system regulation, emotional steadiness, and meaning-making at a pace that respects where you are.
Each module offers grounded tools, reflective exercises, and practical frameworks designed to help you understand what you’re carrying, make space for grief without overwhelm, and begin creating structure during uncertain seasons. This is not about fixing grief or forcing change, but about learning how to stay present with yourself while life reshapes.
After the Fall™ meets you in the aftermath and offers a steady place to begin again, with care.
What you will learn
In After the Fall™, you’ll learn how to move through life after loss with steadiness, clarity, and care, without rushing healing or forcing resolution.
You’ll learn how to:
✔ Stabilize your nervous system during overwhelm, numbness, or emotional flooding
✔ Understand how grief shows up in your body, emotions, and sense of self
✔ Make space for grief without being consumed by it
✔ Build emotional capacity so difficult feelings feel more manageable
✔ Create gentle structure during uncertain or collapsed seasons
✔ Reframe identity after loss, transition, or disruption
✔ Develop grounding practices you can return to again and again
✔ Stay present with yourself while life reshapes without pressure to “move on”
This course is not about fixing grief or arriving at closure. It’s about learning how to stay with yourself in the aftermath and beginning again from a place that feels steadier and more humane.
Who This Is For
After the Fall™ is a six-week grief program for people who have moved beyond the initial shock of loss and are ready for deeper healing, integration, and meaning-making.
This course is especially supportive if you:
- Are 9–12+ months past a significant loss and still feel emotionally impacted
- Feel functional on the outside, but unsettled, disconnected, or heavy on the inside
- Are no longer in constant crisis, yet sense that your grief is unresolved
- Want a trauma-informed, non-clinical grief course that honors both nervous system regulation and emotional processing
- Are looking for gentle structure, language, and reflection, not pressure or fixing
- Value journaling, somatic awareness, guided reflection, and supportive conversation
- Want help learning how to live after loss without leaving your grief behind
This program is for people who aren’t trying to “move on,” but who are ready to move forward with compassion, clarity, and self-trust.
Who This Is Not For (Right Now)
After the Fall™ may not be the right support at this time if you:
- Are in early or acute grief (the first weeks or months after loss) and feel emotionally overwhelmed day to day
- Are currently in crisis, experiencing suicidal thoughts, or unable to regulate safely without immediate support
- Are seeking therapy, diagnosis, or crisis intervention
- Want a quick fix, productivity-based healing, or a way to “get over” grief
- Feel pressured (by yourself or others) to heal before you’re ready
This course is not a replacement for therapy or emergency care. It is a structured, compassionate grief support program designed to complement other forms of care.
A Gentle Note on Readiness
Many people worry they’re either too early or too far along for grief work. If you find yourself asking:
- Why does this still hurt?
- Why do I feel changed since my loss?
- How do I live a meaningful life with grief?
You are likely right where this work meets you. And if it’s not the right time, that doesn’t mean never. It simply means not yet and honoring that is part of healing too.
Curriculum
- Week 1 Video - Naming
- What is the Focus + What Will You Learn
- This Week May Feel Like…
- Try This If It Feels Hard...
- Weekly Affirmations
- Disenfranchised Grief
- Grief as Identity Loss
- Part One: Naming the Loss (Especially When It’s Hard to Name)
- ACT Practice: Making Room for What’s Here (Acceptance)
- The Emotional Avalanche Scale
- Sensation Mapping: What My Body Knows
- Grief Collage
- The 3-Word Check-In
- The Chaos Compass
- Journal + Reflect
- Integration Check-in
- Week 1 Meditation
- Weekly Live Integration Circle (Google Meet)
- Week 2 Video - Navigating
- What is the Focus + What Will You Learn
- This Week May Feel Like…
- Try This If It Feels Hard...
- Weekly Affirmations
- Your Brain on Grief
- Part Two: Beliefs Before and After Loss
- ACT Practice: Unhooking from Painful Thoughts (Cognitive Defusion)
- Fog + Focus Tracker
- Capacity Calendar
- Mind-Declutter List
- Self-Compassion Script
- Gentle Focus Toolkit
- Journal + Reflect
- Integration Check-in
- Week 2 Meditation
- Weekly Live Integration Circle (Google Meet)
- Week 3 Video - Reframing
- What is the Focus + What Will You Learn
- This Week May Feel Like…
- Try This If It Feels Hard...
- Weekly Affirmations
- Part Three: What Feels Truer Now (Even If It’s Uncomfortable)
- ACT Practice: Coming Back to This Moment (Present-Moment Awareness)
- Two Truths
- Compassionate Narrator
- Lesson Lens
- Letter of Permission
- Meaning Making Moment
- I am Becoming
- Journal + Reflect
- Integration Check-in
- Week 3 Meditation
- Weekly Live Integration Circle (Google Meet)
- Week 4 Video - Reconnecting
- What is the Focus + What Will You Learn
- This Week May Feel Like…
- Try This If It Feels Hard...
- Weekly Affirmations
- Part Four: Values That Remain (What Still Matters)
- ACT Practice: You Are More Than What You’re Feeling (Self-as-Context)
- Connection Inventory
- Circle of Belonging
- Boundary Script
- Solitude Ritual
- Yes, No, Maybe List
- Journal + Reflect
- Integration Check-in
- Week 4 Meditation
- Weekly Live Integration Circle (Google Meet)
- Week 5 Video - Releasing
- What is the Focus + What Will You Learn
- This Week May Feel Like…
- Try This If It Feels Hard...
- Weekly Affirmations
- Part Five: Carrying Forward Without Closure
- ACT Practice: Reconnecting with What Still Matters (Values)
- Love Letter to Myself
- Compassion Mirror
- Guilt Release Ritual
- Forgiveness Continuum
- Gratitude Thread (Optional)
- Journal + Reflect
- Integration Check-in
- Week 5 Meditation
- Weekly Live Integration Circle (Google Meet)
- Week 6 Video - Renewing
- What is the Focus + What Will You Learn
- This Week May Feel Like…
- Try This If It Feels Hard...
- Weekly Affirmations
- Where Grief Becomes Growth
- Part Six: A Meaning Statement (Optional)
- ACT Practice: One Gentle Act of Living (Committed Action)
- My New Foundation Worksheet
- Next Chapter Vision Page
- Legacy of Love Letter
- Daily Resilience Ritual
- The Seed Ceremony (Optional Bonus Ritual)
- Reflection + Integration
- Journal + Reflect
- Integration Check-in
- Week 6 Meditation
- Weekly Live Integration Circle (Google Meet)
- Gratitude + Next Steps
Meet Chivonne
Chivonne Monaghan is a speaker, author, and grief + resilience educator with over two decades of experience in personal development, wellness, and nervous-system–informed practices. Her work is grounded in both long-term study and lived experience, particularly in navigating complicated grief and life after loss.
After losing her father, stepfather, and former partner within a short period of time, Chivonne found herself facing grief without closure, clear answers, or a familiar sense of self. While she had spent years immersed in personal growth, yoga, meditation, and trauma-aware modalities, this season revealed the need for a different kind of support - one focused on stabilization, integration, and rebuilding rather than fixing or forcing healing.
After the Fall™: A Six-Week Framework for Stabilizing, Integrating, and Rebuilding After Loss emerged from that intersection of experience and education. The program reflects Chivonne’s commitment to creating compassionate, grounded learning spaces where people can build emotional capacity, understand their inner landscape, and begin again at a pace that honors their humanity.
Her work centers on a simple belief: grief isn’t something we get over. It’s something we learn to live with, integrate, and grow around.
Stabilize
Learn how to steady your nervous system and create enough safety to meet what you’re feeling without becoming overwhelmed.
Integrate
Make space for grief as part of your life and identity, allowing it to be carried with meaning rather than avoided or forced away.
Rebuild
Begin shaping a life that can hold what has been lost while gently restoring structure, direction, and a sense of self.