The Workbook
40 pages of guided prompts that walk you through Hopeful Boundaries — what to set, with whom, and why.
- Fillable PDF + printable
- Reread anytime
- Share with your support group
Grief Rebel · Workbook + Coaching
Clear space for your healing, refuel your depleted tanks and calm your overwhelm. Easily create personal boundaries that work even in deep grief. This unique, 58-page easy-to-read-and-digest workbook is paired with a 75-minute session with Jim. Practice exercises and simple language you can 'steal' in the guide coupled with the unconditional support of Jim. Purposefully designed to make a huge healing difference. Discounted now from $232 to $147.
58-page workbook with prompts and exercises you can fill out at your own pace.
75-minute 1:1 with Jim over Zoom, video call or phone call to meet you exactly where you are in you grief: whether you want to uncover beliefs, discover practical tools and/or release stuck emotions.
Scheduled within 7 days of purchase. Jim reaches out to book a time that works for you.
No prep, No overthinking required. Show up tired, numb, blasted, crying or overwhelmed.
About the workbook
What's inside.
Creating boundaries in grief is not just about learning a few phrases.
It is not just about saying no louder.
It is not about becoming cold, cutting everyone off, or suddenly transforming into the perfectly healed version of yourself who speaks every limit with calm confidence while sipping herbal tea in a sunbeam.
Nope.
When grief, trauma, caregiving, loss, family pressure, exhaustion, guilt, anger, loneliness, and overwhelm are all tangled together, boundaries can feel deeply complicated.
You may know you need space — but not know how to ask for it.
You may know you are exhausted — but still keep saying yes.
You may know something is not working — but feel terrified of hurting someone, disappointing someone, being misunderstood, or losing connection.
You may read the right words on a page and still wonder, “But how the hell do I actually do this in my life?”
That is why this offering combines two powerful tools:
The Badass Boundaries Guide
and
one 75-minute 1:1 coaching session with Jim Spelman.
The workbook gives you the Grief Rebel framework.
The session helps you apply it to your real life, real people, real grief, real fear, real energy, and real capacity.
The Badass Boundaries Guide helps you understand why boundaries get so hard after the blast. It gives you simple language, journal prompts, reflection exercises, fuel-level check-ins, the Sacred No, the Grief Fog Clause, Yes / No / Not Now sorting tools, and scripts you can steal, change, soften, strengthen, or make your own.
But sometimes a workbook opens a door.
And what comes through that door needs a witness.
A 1:1 session gives you space to slow down, sort through what is actually happening, name the real challenge underneath the surface problem, and begin creating boundaries that are not theoretical — but usable.
This is where the work can become personal, practical, and deeply healing.
Together, we can look at the places where your energy is leaking, where you are over-explaining, where your yes is costing too much, where grief fog is affecting your choices, where guilt is running the show, where old roles no longer fit, and where your healing is asking for more oxygen.
The guide helps you begin.
The session helps you make it real.
This is not about getting every word perfect.
This is about staying connected to yourself while you speak.
Jim’s 1:1 coaching sessions are 75-minutes because grief work often opens slowly.
Many people do not arrive at the deeper truth, the real challenge, or the breakthrough point in the first few minutes. Sometimes the thing that most needs attention does not show itself until 45 minutes in — after your nervous system has settled, trust has built, and the first layer of “I think this is what I need help with” has softened into the deeper truth underneath.
The 75-minute format gives the work room to breathe.
No rushing.
No forcing.
No “fix your grief in one tidy session” nonsense.
Just honest, compassionate, practical support at the pace your grief, body, and life can actually hold.
More clarity.
More breathing room.
More self-trust.
More energy protection.
More honest language.
More confidence in your yes, your no, and your not now.
More connection to yourself.
The guide gives you the map.
The session gives you a place to unfold the map, point to the messy part, and say, “This. This is where I need help.”
And then we work there.
Together.
Because boundaries are not just ideas.
They are lived.
Practiced.
Adjusted.
Fumbled.
Strengthened.
Returned to.
And when you are grieving, you do not have to do that work alone.
This pairing was created to help you move from reading about boundaries to actually beginning to create boundaries that protect your healing, refuel your depleted tanks, calm your overwhelm, and help you stop abandoning yourself in the name of keeping everyone else comfortable.
You deserve boundaries that work for you.
You deserve support while you practice them.
You deserve a life where your grief, your healing, your body, your energy, and your becoming all have room to breathe.
Special introductory price: $147
Regular value: $232
What you get
Two parts. One Way.
40 pages of guided prompts that walk you through Hopeful Boundaries — what to set, with whom, and why.
A real conversation, not a sales call. Bring the prompt that lit you up or the one that made you flinch. I help you turn it into action.
Who this is for
If any of these is you, this is the next step.
You finished When the Sh*t Hits Your Fan and want a structure to apply it. This is the workbook for you.
You want a real session with Jim but a 12-week container is too much. One 75-minute call is the right next step.
A book + private session. Says "I see you, I'm not going to fix you, here is something that helped me."
What clients say
Real change, in real life.
“Working with Jim has completely altered the way I view my grief. I am living a life full of hope and connection beyond what I could have imagined, all while honoring my husband and my healing.”
Frequently asked
After you purchase, Jim emails you within 1 business day with a Calendly link to pick a time that works. Calls happen within 7 days of purchase.
You get a fillable PDF that you can complete on your computer or print out. Most readers print it and write on the pages.
Just reschedule. The Calendly link lets you reschedule once at no cost. Life happens.
Many people do. Jim can talk through ongoing 1:1 options on the call if you bring it up — there is zero pressure to.
Yes. If the workbook does not meet you where you are after you have read through it, email Jim within 30 days and you will be refunded in full.
Need a starting point?
Start with the book.
If you have not read the book yet, start there. The workbook builds on the Grief Rebel Way Jim lays out across 167 pages.