Feel Your F&*@ing Feels - The Experience

The Story Behind This Experience

Hello Lovelies, I’m Crystal Webster! Author, speaker, mentor, entrepreneur, and co-founder, and CSO of Sharing Solace - but my most important title is mama to Madelyn Elizabeth Webster.

This experience (It’s called an experience because ‘class’ or ‘program’ just doesn’t give it the oomph it deserves!) has been more than a decade in the making. When my Maddie died in my arms, I crumbled, and I’ve spent every day since learning to live a life worth living - to honor her.

Throughout my grieving and healing journey I think I have read every book (I even wrote one), studied every expert (and met a couple IRL), and joined every course, class, and group under the sun. I soon realized that pretty much everything grief-related fell into one of two buckets:

• The super stuffy, can’t pronounce half the words used (let alone explain them), need a PhD to even get through the Table of Contents bucket.
• The ‘pray the pain away’, don’t question your higher power, you can’t control anything bucket.

As someone who falls in the middle of that spectrum, I need things ‘dumbed down’ for me. I would also like to think I have a little control over my life. I can’t really relate to either side exclusively and I think that most people are like me

Ultimately, throughout our time together, we’ll learn that even the ‘peanut gallery’ can understand the science behind joy and we need to take responsibility (and action) for our lives. I hope the tools presented here help you to dig through your emotions and organize your thoughts.

This experience is for you if:

• You know the 5 (or 7) stages of grief and feel like they are nowhere close to representing the roller coaster you’re on, and you wanna toss that freaking book out the window.
• You’ve “tried everything” and nothing seems to resonates as a way to help you move forward.
• You’re done being miserable and you’d like some guidance on your path to joy and a new normal.

The Experience - Feel your F&*@ing Feels

Our experience is a six-week, cohort-based, ‘go at your on pace’ experience. We offer short daily video sessions (with an occasional homework assignment) and bi-weekly ‘in-person’ virtual check-ins to help hold you accountable to yourself. If that feels a little overwhelming to you (It’s A-OK if it does, you’re grieving - you need to begin to heal at your own pace), you have lifetime access to the daily video sessions and can move forward on your own schedule.

Our sessions are broken into 6 parts:

Part 1 contains discussions around emotions, thoughts, and feelings. We’ll break down the concepts - and the words themselves - so we have a strong foundation to build upon.

Part 2 contains discussions centered on our fears, regrets, and expectations, around what we have lost and our lives moving forward.

Part 3 contains discussions and ideas around {self} compassion and contentment. We need to know what we’re striving for and where we’re aiming for, to even have a chance of getting there.

Part 4 contains discussions and exercises around resiliency. We can’t have it if we don’t know what it is.

Part 5 contains talks and information about empathy and happiness, and how it is so much more than just painting on a smile and telling everyone “I’m fine.”

Part 6 is our final section where we will take everything we’ve talked about previously - tie a pretty yellow bow on top - throw in some gratitude, and work on applying it to our lives going forward.

What You’ll Get {& What I Need}

This experience is being produced by New Degree Studios (the same wonderful company that helped publish Confessions of a Griever). By pre-reserving your seat in this experience you will help cover the expenses of:

• The Producers: My stellar producers are helping ‘reign me in’ a little and revising the scripts and video segments into a cohesive experience.
• The Post-Production Editors: I’m good at a lot of things but video editing is NOT one of them. Experienced Editors will bring together the audio and visual elements for an entertaining time.
• The Designers: You’ve seen Sharing Solace’s work - we don’t screw around when it comes to ‘pretty’...and our experience logo and workbook won’t create themselves, unfortunately.
• The Equipment: Believe it or not, my webcam from 2012 and wired earbuds aren’t quite gonna cut it. Just a little ‘extra’ will go a long way in providing a professional looking and sounding experience
• The Launch & Promotion: It takes a lot of time, energy, and expertise in getting something like this into the hands (and hearts) of those that need it most.
• What do you get outta this deal? Basically, everything I got! By pre-reserving your seat now, you could receive some (or all) of these exclusive rewards:
• Early and lifetime access to the full Feel Your F’ing Feels Experience including 8+ hours of recorded content: discussions, activities, and exercises (a $2010 value - because you know I’m a sucker for symbols and my Madelyn was born in 2010), with the opportunity to provide early feedback
• Guaranteed entrance into the inaugural cohort including closed group discussions and video meetings
• Digital and/or printed and bound copy of the experience workbook
• A personal, handwritten thank you note
• Your name will appear in the Special Show Credits Section of the workbook (“with Special Thanks to”)
• The opportunity to help give feedback and be involved in selecting the logo and designing the experience workbook.
• The opportunity for a private virtual Q&A where I will share the journey of creating the experience and provide behind the scenes glimpses
• Exclusive ‘bundling’ opportunities to include other Sharing Solace resources like
  • The patent-pending Locket + Token Grief Gift Set (necklace or keychain)
  • The Sharing Solace 90-Day Gratitude Journal
  • The Sharing Solace Mini Reflection Journal
  • Signed copy of Confessions of a Griever: Turning a Hot Mess into an Haute Message {Laughable Lessons for When Life Just Sucks}
  • A Personalized 12oz Vacuum Sealed Stainless Steel Tumbler to hold your ‘study beverage’ (Vodka??)
• Special invitation to the official launch + birthday party
• And much more {wink, wink, nudge, nudge...}

About the Creator

Crystal Webster is co-founder and Chief Solace Officer of Sharing Solace. Founded from the love and loss of her daughter, Madelyn Elizabeth, she wants no one to feel alone on their path to their new normal.

She’s created this experience because she felt there was another “angle” to grief and mourning - a “middle of the road” approach that married humor, sorrow, and hope, that only a 'loss mama' could articulate.

When not eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping grief support, she likes to spend time playing board games with her husband, binge (re)watching Friends, playing dinosaurs and monster trucks with her 4 nephews, and traveling (to Vegas and Colorado specifically).

For more information please connect with Crystal at [email protected] or find her on Instagram and Facebook by searching @SharingSolace.

Risks & Challenges

There’s no doubt you could find all this information spread out across the internet, books, articles, and interviews, but I have spent more then a decade digging my way out of this deep hole. Feel your F’ing Feels combines research, well-known and respected expert advice, and activities that have been developed and adjusted with the help of hundreds of other grievers just like you. This tried and true program brings the important bits directly to your fingertips.

Yes, there are risks with creating (and funding) a video program. The biggest challenge with producing this experience is delivering the finished product to you, the backer, specifically the mailing of the physical items. I have eliminated this risk by building into the campaign the mailing and shipping costs within each pre-reservation tier.

The risk of delivering the final product is contingent on the producer used. I have been working closely with New Degree Studios for months to make sure we get the highest quality content produced at the greatest value. We will keep all pre-reservation backers up-to-date as we hit each key milestone.

Other Ways You Can Help (PLEASE!!)

Some people choose not to contribute, but that doesn't mean they can't help in other ways!

• Please share this Pre-Reservation Campaign on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn with your friends, family and network. Please use #IamSharingSolace or #FeelYourFingFeels and tag me (@SharingSolace) so I can help amplify your efforts.
• You can easily share this Pre-Reservation Campaign Page at the top of the page: you will see the "share" buttons. 
• Check out and/or share https://sharingsolace.com/feel-your-fing-feels/ for even more info
• Please share this experience with 5 friends, family members, or co-workers who you think would enjoy it. Feel free to do this as a text message or Direct Message on social media.

Thank you so much for all of your love and support!

Gratefully,

Crystal Webster, Maddie’s Mama