GRIEF

My approach

Grief is not something to fix, solve, or rush through. Grief is a natural response to loving, caring, and living fully. Grief asks us to holistically adapt to change and to learn how to carry both loss and love forward together.

I believe grief is as natural to life as change itself. Both are woven into the fabric of our human experience. We can’t avoid loss, but we can learn to meet it with curiosity, compassion, and care. And we can learn to build a relationship with grief, one that honors what and who we have loved, what has changed, and who we are becoming in light of it.

My intention is not to guide you away from grief, but to support you in turning toward it gently, at your own pace. I offer a warm, grounded, nonjudgmental space where you can bring your whole self. Grief can bring sadness, but it can also bring relief, gratitude, love, anger, confusion, laughter, numbness, joy, peace, and everything in between. There is room for every emotion and every experience.

Grief affects every aspect of our lives- our energy, concentration, body, connections, routines, emotions, and even our sense of identity. Navigating it often requires support that addresses the whole person, not just the emotional impact of loss.

This is where integrative grief support comes in. It weaves the internal and external experience of loss into your awareness so that grief does not become stuck or unprocessed. Over time, building a relationship with grief in this can lead to a new way of being- with ourselves, with the world, with who or what was lost, and with the new shape of our lives.

Grief is really, really, really hard. Often, the pain of it is equal to the depth of our love and care. Crossing the threshold into the portal of grief changes us, it changes everything, and the only way through is through. I’m here to help you gently find your way through so that you will emerge on the other side with a deeper trust in your own strength and an expanded capacity to carry what feels impossible- as well as an openness to discovering that profound loss can lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves, of life, and of love.

You’re doing great, keep going 🤍

“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” Anne Roiphe

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