“Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, spiritual and physical necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
~ Earl Grollman
We live in a death-phobic culture.
Death is a natural part of the journey of life, yet many of us have never experienced death firsthand.
We’re lucky, then, if we receive a week off of work to process the hole in our lives and hearts when a loved one passes.
That’s to say nothing off the passing of a fur-child, the ending of a relationship, or the countless other “mini-deaths” that a part of the human experience.
The societal “turning away” from death — and therefore from loss — means that many of us don’t know how to dance with grief.
We are therefore robbed of the transformational power of conscious grieving.
My own passion for grief and loss work came with the dual cancer diagnoses of two loved ones, the sudden ending of a longterm relationship, and the transformational experience of serving as death doula for my beloved grandmother.
It’s my honor to walk alongside clients navigating their own grief dance. I know, from experience, that the only way “out” is “through.”