Do you know how to befriend your aging self?
If aging or chronic illness is so fearful that you have to deny it, then aging has a lot of POWER over you.
Aging is a mystery to be faced, not a puzzle to be solved…
“To live in this world
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
-Mary Oliver, Blackwater Wood
Annual Public Service Event
Join us February 2, 2026 for National Anchor Your Heart Day at 3:00 PM EST. It will be preceded at 2:00 PM EST with a free 1-hour webinar on Self-Compassioning!
Click here to register: National Anchor Your Heart Day 2026
Course curriculum
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Workbook - please download and print. Follow the workbook instructions.
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Anchor Your Heart - Please read and practice
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Resistance: Trying to Understand the Aging Journey
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Resistance 2: Ageism, Prejudice and the Media
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Accepting the FULL spectrum of the Life Cycle, Grieving vs. Mourning
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Loss Inventory Chart
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About this course
- $49.00
- 12 lessons
- 1.5 hours of video content
Course Instructor
Deborah Grassman
Founder
Few people have been with 10,000 dying veterans; Deborah Grassman is one VA hospice Nurse Practitioner who has. Dying veterans taught her lessons about how to attain personal peace. Ironically, those lessons came from people who had been trained for war! As a result, a phenomenon known as “Soul Injury” has now emerged as a relevant healthcare issue for the public. She contends that 10,000 dying veterans have lessons that the rest of us need to learn! Deborah is the author of two books, Peace at Last and The Hero Within. She is a contributing author for four textbooks, has 25 published articles, and there are 5 documentary films featuring her work.
Testimonial
“There's a small plaque on our refrigerator containing an Irish proverb that reads: 'Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.' .... This course gave me the tools to consciously enter the aging process – a process I needed to work through in order to enjoy the privilege of aging.”
Gordon Ruddick, Eugene, Oregon