A Journey to Hope: Embracing Lament During Lent

a place to practice grieving and suffering well while reflecting on Christ's Easter Journey

What is A Journey to Hope: Embracing Lament During Lent?

Do you feel angry with God because you can’t believe the suffering and/or loss you’re enduring? Do you feel alone in navigating “positive theology” where you can’t express your doubt or anger? Do you have a difficult time creating space to feel your sorrow and grief? If this sounds like you, welcome! This is a safe space for you to land!

Journey to Hope: Embracing Lament During Lent is a six-week program creating space for sorrow and lament. This program delves into the teachings of the Life of Christ, as well as combining poems and psalms as a way to write our own psalms of lament. Never fear — you do not need to share with a large group (or at all). Each session promises a space for healing and connection.

This program will be focused on helping you lament and “suffer well” along with others who understand and empathize with your grief and suffering. Research shows time spent in lament has a direct correlation with meaning-making and growth emerging from suffering. Our time together will help you enter into your suffering.

This program is not just a series of lessons; it's a journey towards healing alongside a community moving towards one goal — carrying our suffering well. Join us to find understanding, empathy, and support from others who share a similar commitment to healing. Your presence would add immeasurable richness to this collective experience.

Important to note: this program is not a grief peer support or process therapy group. The focus is on cultivating awareness around, and creatively expressing, lament as it impacts your emotions, thoughts, body, relationships, and spirituality.

Dr. Kimber, a licensed clinical psychologist, brings extensive experience in assisting clients who have faced significant losses, trauma, and anxiety. Her expertise extends to neuroscience, understanding the impact of trauma on the body, and a depth psychology of grief, including how our past familial relationships can impact grieving. Dr. Kimber is committed to helping you carry your grief as you continue to live without your loved one(s), offering a gentle and supportive approach.

Beyond her professional credentials, Dr. Kimber has her own personal experience of navigating grief after the third-trimester loss of her baby. She understands the unique challenges this journey presents and is dedicated to guiding you through it with empathy and understanding. Your path to hope begins here.

Through A Journey to Hope: Embracing Lament During Lent, Dr. Kimber will guide you through a series of six (6) lectures that will help you enter into lament.

The course will help you:

  • Move your healing forward - whatever the painful circumstances

  • Navigate the emotional ups and downs of lament by learning the science of suffering

  • Change your beliefs about suffering by studying the suffering of Christ

  • Strengthen your self-awareness, which helps change take place

  • Express your grief rather than avoid it

  • Find hope and meaning by going into your grief and suffering

By the end of the course, you'll feel comfortable expressing all of your feelings to God, feel empowered to handle the feelings and triggers that come with this journey of suffering, and have a newfound sense of peace and hope.

If you're ready to continue healing, then come join us for a meaningful Lenten lament through the teachings of Christ. Sign up for A Journey to Hope: Embracing Lament During Lent today. Dr. Kimber is here to help you through this journey.

You don't have to face suffering alone.

  • "Dr. Del Valle integrates her vast knowledge of psychology with her painful journey of loss to help us understand our journey with grief more clearly."

  • "Kimber Del Valle is well acquainted with trauma and grief. Her words will offer comfort, hope and healing to others who have suffered a similar experience."

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The A Journey to Hope: Embracing Lament During Lent program is designed for anyone who has experienced loss of any kind and wants to embrace the lament. This course is focused on helping you lament and “suffer well.” We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and faiths to join us in this program, recognizing that grief knows no boundaries.

    Our primary focus is to reconnect, share, and begin or continue your journey towards healing.

    While individuals of all faiths are welcome (including atheists), it's important to note that our approach and program may incorporate elements and perspectives rooted in contemplative Christianity.

  • You will receive access to the course materials, including activities and resources, for the duration of the course and 6 months following the final call.

  • This is a 6-week course.

  • Content will be available on a members-only site, and meetings will be held via Zoom (with recordings available for those who cannot attend live).

  • Individual: $300
    Couple: $500

  • If you sign up for the course and decide it is not for you, a money-back guarantee is offered through the end of week 1. After week 1, all sales are final.

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Meet Dr. Kimber

In her day job, Dr. Kimber is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in grief work and trauma healing. She's a recent author of Still: Making A Whole When Parts Go Missing, a memoir chronicling her journey of grieving the death of her son, which hit the top 100 of pregnancy and childbirth books on Amazon. As one who loves to live outside of boxes, she’s especially known for her “growling” activities when leading executive leadership retreats. She shares perspectives on healing mental health challenges and practicing slowing down on her podcast, I Thought I Was Over This. Dr. Kimber publishes a spiritual daily reflections journal and invites readers to pause and ponder in her biweekly newsletter. Though a country girl at heart, she’s spent the last three decades in the Southern California area where she’s cultivated deep friendships, dance moves and yearly communal camping trips where spirituality is discussed and only the children age year after year. Married with two living children, 20 and 15, her favorite activities include being outside, watching sunsets, and laughing.

Disclaimer: 

This course and all of its content is for informational and educational purposes only. All original content of this course is to be used only by permission from Dr. Kimber.™ My purpose is to inform and educate individuals who want to improve their mental health and engage in personal growth. By participating in this course you understand that Dr. Kimber™ is not your psychologist, life coach, or mental health professional and you are not in any type of professional relationship with Dr. Kimber. The information and education provided is not intended or implied to supplement or replace professional mental health treatment, advice, and/or diagnosis or medical treatment, advice, and/or diagnosis.

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