Grief is part of being alive.
Making room for death, loss, and change can help us live with greater freedom, clarity, and aliveness—right now.
Grief takes many forms...
Sometimes, grief is the catch-all used to describe the wake created by a beloved’s death.
Sometimes, it is the complexity of feelings that comes from the death of a challenging person—or from a death that was itself challenging.
Sometimes, the death is metaphorical: the small deaths of an aspect of identity, a possibility, or even the doors that close as a consequence of opening a door of delights.
Sometimes, grief is simply an acknowledgment of the passage of time in the context of death’s inevitability.
I know, I said the D-word a lot up there. Are you noticing some discomfort? Maybe even a desire to click away?
How very human of you, friend.
In death and all of its companion thoughts and feelings, we come to the one experience every single human throughout space and time shares. So why aren’t we talking about it?
Like, all the time?
Counterintuitive as it may sound, the more I’ve talked about dying, death, and grief—the more I’ve read, contemplated, and integrated these realities into my consciousness—the less afraid and more free I feel.
This exploration of grief is about supporting you as you find your own footing in the realities of mortality. That could include:
- Clarity about what you are grieving and what it means to integrate that grief into your life, as it is now and as it inevitably changes
- Defining what a Life Well Lived means to you as a person who will die and who will almost certainly grieve other mortals and other small-death experiences—perhaps you already have
- Finding room well beyond dread in the contemplation and process of aging
All of this is in service of your aliveness, which is happening now. Right. Now.
Don’t let a piddly thing like death get in the way of living now.
Should we talk?
Talk is cheap, and this time it’s free! We know a lot of people offer free consultations that are just long, painful sales presentations. That’s not what this is. Let’s just talk and test the fit, no strings attached.
