Grief Support Circles
Participate in group sessions to foster community and find support from other grief travelers. We heal in community!
Grief Support Circles
Supportive groups that befriend grief and foster hope and healing.
Grief support groups offer a compassionate space where people can feel understood by others who truly “get it.” Being surrounded by those who have experienced loss can break the painful isolation that so often accompanies grief. In these circles, there is permission to speak freely, to cry, to laugh, and to share memories without feeling rushed or judged. Hearing the stories of others can help normalize emotional reactions, reduce shame, and provide a sense of belonging during a time when many feel alone in their pain.
Support groups also foster growth, resilience, and emotional movement. By engaging in shared reflection, participants gain tools and perspectives that help them better understand their own grief process. Witnessing how others cope, heal, and rebuild their lives can ignite hope, offer new coping strategies, and inspire their own healing journey. Grief support groups remind each person that while their loss is uniquely theirs, they do not have to navigate it in isolation — healing happens in community.
Raised, But Not Really™ Support Circles
A supportive space to be seen, be held, and make space for who you are becoming.
Raised, But Not Really™ Support Circles offer a place to slow down and exhale from the ways you learned to navigate relationships. Maybe you became the people-pleaser, the caretaker, the achiever, the peacekeeper, or the one who could handle everything. Maybe you learned to minimize your needs, anticipate everyone else’s, or work hard to feel worthy of love and belonging.
These patterns didn’t come from nowhere. You adapted. You learned what you needed to do to stay connected, feel safe, or belong. And while those adaptations may have helped you survive, you may now find yourself wondering what life could feel like if you didn’t have to keep being who everyone else needed you to be.
In our circles, we make space for the parts of your story that may have gone unseen. We explore what was missing, what you needed, who you had to become, and how those experiences may still shape the way you relate to yourself and others. There is room for grief, honesty, laughter, reflection, and the simple experience of being with women who understand.
Together, we begin to practice a different way of being—one where you can listen to your own needs, trust your intuition, receive without earning, set boundaries without guilt, and belong without performing.
You were raised.
You adapted.
You survived.
You are becoming.
This is not about fixing you or becoming someone new. It is about creating a safe and nurturing space to reconnect with the essence of who you are and discover what becomes possible when you give yourself permission to become more fully yourself.
Come as you are.
Be seen. Be held. Be nurtured.
Make sacred space for becoming.
Women’s Processing Circles
The women’s processing support group is a compassionate space where participants can explore their feelings, needs, and inner experience without judgment. The focus is on learning intimacy with oneself—understanding what we feel, tuning into the messages of the body, and cultivating emotional awareness as the foundation for authentic connection with others. Using the 8 core emotions check-in, members practice naming their emotional reality and deepening into their stories to uncover patterns, blocks, and unmet needs that influence their choices and relationships.
In this supportive circle, women are encouraged to speak honestly about transitions, grief, identity, relationships, and personal growth—knowing their voice will be respected and held. Through shared wisdom and gentle reflection, participants witness one another’s resilience and healing, discovering that they are not alone in their longings or struggles. Over time, the group fosters self-trust, emotional clarity, and compassionate self-understanding, allowing each woman to feel seen and supported—not for who she tries to be, but for who she truly is.
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PROFESSIONAL BIO
Pam Monjar, LPC-MHSP, NCC, CGP
Currently offering Telehealth sessions for Tennessee residents.
West Virginia availability coming soon!
615-295-1195
pam@pammonjar.com
Pam Monjar is a grief therapist, educator, and end-of-life doula with over 30 years of experience supporting individuals through some of life’s most difficult transitions. After a successful career in human resources, she followed a deeper calling into the world of mental health to walk alongside those navigating grief, loss, and trauma.
Pam’s professional background includes working in residential rehabilitation for substance use, providing trauma education in Uganda, and serving as the primary therapist for individuals in solitary confinement and on death row in a state prison. Today, she maintains a thriving private practice and serves as an adjunct professor in an undergraduate psychology program, where she mentors adult learners pursuing degrees in the helping professions.
She is a Grief Counseling Professional, and holds certifications as Grief Educator, and in Death and Bereavement Studies. Pam is also formally trained as an End-of-Life Doula. Her advanced studies in grief and loss include mentorship and coursework with renowned leaders in the field such as Dr. Alan Wolfelt, David Kessler, Claire Bidwell Smith, and Hope Edelman.




