On this Cancer New Moon, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to care deeply while staying with ourselves. One thing I’ve been sitting with lately is what happens in us when we hear about someone else’s tragedy or loss. So often, without even realizing it, we begin to imagine what they must be feeling. …
Category: Greif
On Grief and the Nervous System
One theme I keep returning to in my work is the relationship between grief, trauma, and the nervous system. Grief is not only an emotional experience. It lives in the body. It can affect our breath, sleep, digestion, energy, sense of safety, and our ability to connect with others. Loss can shake the very ground …
Through Grief to Love: A journey home to ourselves
Full Moon Blessings dear friends, For so much of my life, love felt like something outside of me—something to be earned, something I had to perfect myself to receive. My teenage years were steeped in self-rejection, tangled in eating disorders, self-loathing, and an ache for belonging. As a highly sensitive being, the world often felt …
Fear into Faith
Dear Friends I hope this message finds you well. How our world has shifted in these last few weeks. I have never heard the word ‘unprecedented’ used so many times in a day, but here we are in unprecedented times. For many of us experiencing grief, our cups were already full from various personal losses or from the sadness we …
Australian Bushfires
Wishing you all so much love, peace and beauty for this new year, 2020 and for a magical start to a brand-new decade. Thank you for your endless support in 2019. I feel immensely grateful to be able to do the work I do, in helping people find meaning through grief, loss and feelings of …
Grief Myths
Hello Dear friends As the bright light of Summer slowly wanes, Mother Nature in all her immense wisdom teaches us about endings. She shows us that “nothing gold can stay”, as Robert Frost so eloquently stated. The sacred cycles of nature elucidate that everything is fleeting and will at some point, cease to exist in …
Grief, Self-Love & Soul Tending
With all of my being, I send out love and blessings to all of you for this new year, 2019. May it be a year full of peace, presence, open-hearted communication, expansion and love. I have spent the first few weeks of the year fallow and quiet with the intention of listening to my soul and …
Today My Heart Feels Full
Today my heart feels full. Last week was a week of ritual and ceremony and journeys to the underworld. The final culmination of a week of going deep was a workshop and ritual on Abortions, Miscarriages and Gatekeepers. The day I received the email invite, I knew I had to go. Despite that knowing, there …
Grief
My husband, Matthew died a couple of months after my second miscarriage from an accidental prescription drug overdose. It was an enormous experience for me. I had just moved to a new area and had no support network. My family was all in Australia. My yearlong marriage to Matthew was my first major relationship after …