Compassionate Care
Grief │ Death │ Well-being
Speaking & Workshops
Signature Talk: Steadying the Helper: Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout Support for Care Providers
Medicine, therapy, coaching, ministry: the professions built on showing up for others rarely leave room to ask how the helper is doing. Anxiety becomes background noise. Overwhelm starts to feel like the job description. And burnout, when it finally arrives, can feel less like a crisis and more like the quiet end of something that had been fraying for a long time.
This session offers a different starting point: the nervous system, not the to-do list. Together, we explore what chronic stress actually does to the body and mind of a care provider, practical tools to interrupt overwhelm in the moment, and how to build a sustainable rhythm of self-care that survives contact with a demanding caseload, not just a self-care Sunday.
Custom Talks for Your Unique Community
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Compassionate Grief Care: From Fixing to Tending: exploring grief tending rather than grief resolution, and how soul led conversation restores presence in caregiving relationships
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Grief Tending for Care Providers: compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and cumulative grief in clinical and caregiving work
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End-of-Life Conversations: supporting honest, meaningful conversations with patients, clients, and families
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Sustainable Self-Compassion for Healers: somatic and mindfulness practices for practitioners, not just their clients
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Grief Has No Single Shape: a public/community-facing session on the many forms of loss, adaptable for non-clinical audiences
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Supporting the Nervous System: practical, embodied tools for stress and anxiety support, drawn from somatic practice, mindful breathwork, setting boundaries, and creating a self-care backpack
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Wellness Coaching for Sustainable Change: a strengths-based approach to health and well-being goals that honors the whole person, not just the habit.
Past Webinar Replays
What Organizers Can Expect
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Available for in-person (WA/OR/PNW priority) and virtual sessions
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Can tailor content depth for clinical vs. general audiences
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Comfortable with breakout, keynote, or workshop formats
Jennifer Janelle
MA, NBC-HWC, ERYT500
Jennifer Janelle, MA, NBC-HWC, is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, INELDA-trained death doula, and Grief Care Specialist based in Bellingham, WA. Her path to this work wove together graduate study, a career spent thinking about how people move through change, and her own encounters with loss — leading her to build a practice centered on presence, not fixing. Today she supports individuals through grief and end-of-life transition, and holds space for the healers and caregivers who spend their own lives holding space for others.
Credentials at a Glance
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National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
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INELDA-Trained Death Doula
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Grief Care Specialist Certificate (Megan Devine / PESI, Inc.)
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The Art of Companioning the Mourner: Caring vs Curing Certificate (Dr. Alan Wolfelt)
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ERYT-500, YACEP Trauma Informed, Therapeutic Yoga
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Certified iRest® Meditation Instructor
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Warriors at Ease® Certified Instructor
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MA, International Relations — University of Oklahoma · BA, Psychology — George Mason University
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