What We Carry, Quietly: Grief in the Heart of Leadership

A 3-Day Restorative Workshop for Women Who Lead

A Message from Our Founder and President: Meet the Leader Behind the Workshop 

Upcoming Workshop Dates: 📅 October 17–19, 📅 November 14–16

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Location: 📍 45 River Road, Suite 8, Summit, NJ 07901

Upcoming Workshop Dates: 📅 October 17–19, 📅 November 14–16 - Location: 📍 45 River Road, Suite 8, Summit, NJ 07901

Investment: $2,500 USD

*Lunches, snacks, and beverages included

When Your "Grief Ghosts" Become Too Heavy to Carry Alone 

Grief doesn't always look the way people expect. It doesn't always cry or collapse. Often, it hides in your silence, your sharpness, your exhaustion at the end of a long day. You keep showing up, checking off to-dos, leading, caregiving, but underneath it all, something feels heavy. Unresolved.

This two-and-a-half-day workshop is for women in leadership who seem to be managing it all, but are carrying grief that has gone unnamed for too long. For those who thought they had the tools to keep going, until those tools stopped working. This isn't therapy or a quick fix. It's a small, compassionate space where we walk with you through a deeply experiential process. Together, we begin to uncover how loss, whether obvious or hidden, has shaped the way you lead, love, and live.

You'll trace a defining loss in your life, explore how it's been carried through the years, and discover the gifts that were part of that relationship, too. Through journaling, reflection, and shared conversation, you'll find clarity, connection, and space to finally begin letting go. We don't tell you how to grieve; we move through it with you. In a safe and trusted environment, you'll gain insight into how your heart and mind hold grief, and how healing in harmony with both creates room for resilience and deeper presence.

You'll leave with a clearer understanding of the grief you've carried, a renewed sense of inner peace, and the capacity to lead from a more grounded and connected place.

You don't have to carry it all alone. You're allowed to feel. To exhale. To begin healing.

For Women Who Lead—and Feel Everything They Carry

Women in leadership roles carry so much, at work, at home, and in every space they move through. Even when they seem to have it together, unresolved experiences can leave a quiet, lingering weight. This workshop offers space to reflect, release, and return with more clarity, ease, and strength.

A Quiet Unpacking of the Heavy Stuff 

Stress, anger, and emotional pressure build over time. Through reflection and journaling, you’ll gently explore what’s been quietly shaping how you show up.

 A Compassionate, Private Space

Grounded, confidential, and guided by experienced facilitators, including a licensed psychologist. A space where roles are set aside and emotions are met with care.

Grief Processing Skills That Strengthen Leadership

When heart and mind work in harmony, leadership deepens. You’ll leave with insight, resilience, and renewed presence.

Connection with Women Who Understand the Pressure

In a small, supportive group, you’ll find real conversation, shared experiences, and the reminder that you don’t have to carry it all alone.

What You'll Take With You

Mental Clarity & Emotional Relief

Even high-performing women can feel fogged by grief they haven’t had time to face. This workshop offers space to pause, reflect, and untangle that quiet weight, so you can return with more clarity, energy, and inner calm.

A Safe Space to Process What's Been Silently Carried

Leading while grieving can feel isolating. Here, you’ll be held in a confidential space where honest reflection is met with care, not judgment, so you can finally name what’s been held inside.

New Tools When Your Old Ones Stop Working

When old coping strategies fall short, this experience offers a new way forward. Through guided journaling, experiential exercises, and connection, you’ll begin to process grief in harmony with how you lead and live.

Freedom from the Emotional Backpack

Grief often hides behind exhaustion, irritability, or burnout. This workshop helps lighten what you’ve quietly carried for years, creating space for more ease, resilience, and authentic connection moving forward.

Real Stories, Real Healing

Thank you for letting me lean on your strength when I had none of my own. In my most unbelievable days, you still care. — A patient of eight years
Not only is she an amazing psychologist, she also has the gift of helping you feel truly seen. I once asked, “What would you tell a friend going through this?” and she replied, “I’d tell her exactly what I’m telling you now.”
After that first encounter with Dr. Gingold, everything shifted. She gave me tools to move forward, not just survive. Her insight helped me build something that was once only a thought.
To the woman who saved me from myself — thank you. You taught me how to slow down, to be kind to myself, and to find different ways to deal with my emotions.
Dr. Gingold is a highly skilled psychologist who not only listens but also empowers. Her wisdom, empathy, and counsel is extraordinary.
My son and our entire family have learned to communicate, to listen, and to truly support each other through the most difficult times. She gave us hope and a path forward.
I've truly learned so much from our sessions. Her guidance helped me unearth parts of myself I didn’t know needed healing. I will be forever grateful for you!
You are an inspiration! Your love and dedication radiate through everything you do. Thank you for making a difference in so many lives. I cherish you. 🙏🏻💕 — Robin
Throughout my program/internships so far, I’ve often found myself repeating lessons I learned from Holly. She planted seeds of wisdom that continue to grow and allow me to serve others.
My grief was overwhelming until I met Holly. Her compassionate heart and patient spirit helped me process unbearable loss. I am forever in her debt. — Laura
There are no words to describe how grateful I am. Holly's presence, calmness, and ability to hold space changed my world. I’ve found peace, healing, and so much more. — Esther
Your outlook on life is amazing. You helped me uncover strength I didn’t know I had. You are a gift to those in need… forever in my heart. — Mary
Holly’s gentle and kind touch is an extension of her heart. Her words helped me through some of the darkest moments of my life. I always left feeling lighter, heard, and comforted. — Cheryl
Holly S. Strelzik at Center for the Heart helped me open my heart again. Her work gave me the courage to process, to forgive, and to begin living again. — Dawn
When I was grieving, Holly was a lighthouse in the storm. She held space for me when I couldn’t hold it for myself, and held steady as I made my way back to shore. — Laura

Meet Your Guides

Leadership doesn’t pause for grief, but it can quietly shape how we lead, connect, and carry on. Your guides bring decades of experience in leadership, psychology, and end-of-life care, along with their own personal journeys through loss. With deep empathy and professional insight, they create a safe, restorative space for women in leadership to reflect, process, and begin to heal.

  • Holly knows what it feels like to keep showing up—for work, for family, for everyone—while quietly unraveling inside. Before founding Center for the Heart, she spent decades leading teams at global companies, raising a family, caring for aging loved ones, and offering end-of-life support to others. But when her own unresolved grief became too heavy to ignore, the tools she’d relied on for years suddenly stopped working.

    What followed was a personal reckoning—and a transformation. Holly stepped into her own journey towards recovery using the very grief recovery method she now shares through these workshops. As a certified Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist™, end-of-life doula, and founder of multiple care-centered organizations, she brings deep experience and even deeper empathy to this work.

    This isn’t a job for Holly—it’s a calling. And she’s honored to walk alongside every woman who enters this space, ready to carry less and feel more.

  • Dr. Rachel Gingold understands what it’s like to carry unspoken grief while continuing to lead, care, and show up for others. As a licensed psychologist in New Jersey, New York, and through the Interjurisdictional Telepsychology compact, she brings over 20 years of experience supporting individuals through life’s hardest emotional transitions.

    Trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and certified as an Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist™, Rachel blends clinical skill with deep empathy. Her own personal losses, including the grief that surfaced after her divorce, brought her to this work not just as a professional, but as someone who’s walked the path herself.

    Since 2019, she has held the recognition of being one of New Jersey’s Top Doctors, an honor that reflects her commitment to excellence and compassionate care.

    Rachel’s presence in this workshop offers a steady, compassionate guide for those who feel like they’ve held it together for everyone else, but are ready to tend to what’s been quietly weighing them down.

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