Befriending Grief

Website Mentorship YouTube Circles Individual Support Dear Reader, When I think back to the many losses I’ve experienced, I’m reminded of how deeply they’ve changed me. I know I’m not alone in that. While your losses may look different from mine, every one of us encounters transition - both big and small - and every transition carries with it some form of loss and grief. The only constant through a lifetime, it seems, is change. There is often a line drawn through the big transitions of our...

Website Community YouTube Facebook Instagram Dear Reader, I just have to say ... I was overwhelmed with gratitude by the responses that I received after my last writing. I think it hits a cord when we are vulnerable enough to be honest about what we are moving through! I know that I truly appreciate hearing those stories and perspectives from others - the stuff that makes us human. As I continue to begin again, I have decided to reinvent the way that I communicate. Some of you want to read...

Dear Reader, As we approach the upcoming Mother's Day weekend, I've been thinking so much about my own mom .. as well as my role as a mom .. This time of year has a way of bringing so much to the surface - love, gratitude, longing, grief… sometimes all at once. It can feel tender in ways that are hard to put into words. If this season is touching something in you, I want you to know you don’t have to move through it alone. I’m offering a free Mother’s Day Grief Circle this Thursday, May 7th...

Dear Reader, I hope you and your heart are navigating this crazy world with as much love, compassion, and kindness as you can muster, for yourself and for your community. That really does feel like what is needed most right now. I do not have any answers for what ails the world, but I know I feel most grounded when I stay close to what is in my immediate orbit: my family, my friends, my neighbors, and my life's work. Speaking of my life's work, I have been moving through a big, sacred turning...

Website Community YouTube Facebook Instagram Dear Reader, I think it’s safe to say that the state of the world, our country, and my home state of Minnesota (okay, now Wisconsin, though after so many years in Minnesota I consider myself a “dual resident” lol) are all moving through massive transition and upheaval. To put it mildly. After weeks of trying to navigate social media and the news, with the last several days in particular being especially upsetting, I’ve been asking myself a familiar...

Website Community YouTube Facebook Instagram Dear Reader, I hope this finds you in some stage of recovery after the holiday season - so much easier said than done, right?! It's so tempting to jump right back into the grind. Grief and winter have very similar qualities. Neither asks much of us in terms of effort. Instead, they invite a slowing of pace and a turning toward subtler energies: rest, contemplation, and a way of being that values being over doing. Part of this winter “beingness” can...

Website Mentorship YouTube Circles Individual Support Good Morning Reader, There is a palpable shift in the air now, and I can feel the world turning inward at October's midpoint. We're looking ahead to one of my most favorite sacred times of the year - when many believe the veil between the living and the dead becomes a little more thin. Across cultures and traditions, this is a time of remembrance. A time to speak the names of our ancestors, to honor those we’ve lost, to reconnect with the...

Website Mentorship YouTube Circles Individual Support Dear Reader, As much as I think about, talk about, and write about grief and loss, grief is not often acknowledged and even more rarely spoken about in our culture. Yet 100% of us will move through grief in our lifetime. Our lived are lived in cycles and rhythms, and as things shift and change over the course of a lifetime we naturally lose people, hopes and dreams, things that weren't meant for us .. the list goes on and one. These...

Website Mentorship YouTube Circles Individual Support Dear Reader, Thank you for signing up for the upcoming Grief Awareness Day Circle on August 30th! I am truly honored to share this time with you. Grief Awareness Day invites us to pause and acknowledge what is often invisible in our culture: the sorrows we carry, the stories we hold, and the truth that grief is not something to “get over,” but something to move through and simply "be with". In this free circle, we will be exploring ways of...