January 18, 2026 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Good Grief Without God: A Spiritually Inclusive Approach to Loss
Religious folks often balk at the idea that anyone could make it through a loss without a faith to support them, and yet people of all persuasions – spiritual, secular, and everywhere in between – cope successfully with loss every day. In this talk, Claire will share her learnings as a hospice bereavement coordinator offering spiritually inclusive grief support in the Pensacola area, with particular attention to the gap in community bereavement resources for non-religious or spiritually wounded grievers.
Claire Helton is a hospice bereavement coordinator with a background in chaplaincy & congregational ministry, and is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola. She finds life in creating spaces for deep reflection, community-building, and personal transformation, and puts that passion to use as a Mentor with OutoftheBox (www.outofthebox.org), a group dialogue tool she currently uses to facilitate her own spiritually inclusive grief support group called Mindful Grief, which meets in Pensacola.