5 Modules · 19 Lessons · Self-Paced

A Course on Grief.

Still here. Still carrying it. Now learning to hold it differently.

The stage model of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — is the most widely taught framework for loss. It is also, in the most important ways, wrong. And the wrongness has caused a great deal of damage.

5Modules
19Lessons
Self-Paced
Start the Course — Included with Membership See all modules

Included with your My Inner Foundation membership.

Identify the losses — including the ones without funerals — that are still taking up space in your present life.Name what you are carrying
Build the conditions in which grief can be present rather than managed: the witness, the space, the permission that allows it to move.Give it the room it needs
Understand grief as a physiological process and develop the practices that allow the body to process what the mind has been trying to contain.Work with the body
People carrying losses that have never been properly named, witnessed, or moved throughThis may be for you
Anyone whose grief does not fit the recognised categories and has therefore had no place to goThis may be for you
What this course helps you explore
People carrying losses that have never been properly named, witnessed, or moved through Anyone whose grief does not fit the recognised categories and has therefore had no place to go People who thought they were finished grieving and keep finding they are not Anyone who wants to understand what grief actually is, and what it asks of them Name what you are carrying Give it the room it needs Work with the body Move toward integration
The Premise

The work beneath
A Course on Grief.

This course is designed to help you slow the pattern down, understand what is happening underneath it, and begin practising a steadier, kinder way forward. It does not ask you to become someone else. It helps you return to yourself with more clarity, language, and choice.

The stage model of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — is the most widely taught framework for loss. It is also, in the most important ways, wrong. And the wrongness has caused a great deal of damage.
The Course

5 Modules. 19 Lessons

Each module is a place to understand one layer more clearly. Move slowly. Let the language meet the part of your life that has needed more care, more honesty, and a more hopeful way forward.

01
Module 1
What Grief Actually Is

A course that begins by dismantling the most common framework and replacing it with something more accurate: grief as a non-linear, personal, and often disguised response to any significant loss — not only death.

02
Module 2
The Body That Grieves

Grief is physiological before it is psychological. This module works with what the body does with loss: the fatigue, the physical presence of absence, the sensation of carrying something without knowing you are carrying it.

03
Module 3
The Complicating Factors

The losses that do not get flowers: ambiguous loss, unrecognised grief, the grief for what never was. The losses that may carry shame, guilt, or too little social permission to exist.

04
Module 4
The Integration Practice

Grief does not resolve. It integrates. This module works with what integration actually looks like: not forgetting, not closure, but the slow process of the loss taking up less of the present as it finds its place in the past.

05
Module 5
Still Here

What grief leaves behind when it has been moved through honestly: not the absence of loss, but the presence of what the loss cannot reach. The self that existed before the grief began, and continues after.

Begin when you are ready

A Course on Grief.

Still here. Still carrying it. Now learning to hold it differently.

Start the Course — Included with Membership

Included with your My Inner Foundation membership.

Common Questions

Frequently asked

Is the five-stage model of grief accurate?

No, and the course opens with this. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross developed the stage model observing terminally ill patients facing their own death, not bereaved survivors. It was never intended as a universal sequence for grief. The damage the model has caused is specific: it creates the expectation that grief should move in a direction, and that if you are not progressing, you are failing. This course offers a more accurate framework.

What does grief integration mean?

Integration means carrying the loss differently: incorporating it into your life in a way that allows you to function, to feel joy, to be present, not completing or finishing the grief. The loss remains; the relationship to it changes. This is different from 'getting over' or 'moving on', which imply a kind of erasure that most grieving people find both inaccurate and painful.

Is this course appropriate if my loss is recent?

The course is appropriate across the grief timeline, including recent loss. It does not expect you to be further along than you are. However, if the loss is very recent and the grief is acute, working with a therapist or grief counsellor alongside this course is recommended. This course is educational support, not clinical treatment.

Can this course help with grief that is years old?

Yes, and many people find it particularly useful for grief that has never been properly processed. Grief that has been carried for years without adequate support often benefits most from the framework this course provides: understanding why it has persisted, what has been complicated about it, and what integration at this stage looks like.

My Inner Foundation
Olivia Fox

A course by Olivia Fox, founder of My Inner Foundation. She writes about what she has lived, worked through herself, and sat with in others, translating real inner work and years of supporting people through these exact struggles into language that is precise, honest, and genuinely useful.

You might also explore
The Unmaking → Emotional Mastery → The Invisible Weight → The Child You Were →

Written with care

A gentle note before you begin

My Inner Foundation courses are educational and reflective. They are not therapy, diagnosis, medical advice, or crisis support. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent mental-health support, please contact local emergency services or a qualified professional.

Sources Disclaimer Terms Privacy