GRIEF COUNSELING
"There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard." - Victoria Alexander
We have all experienced loss in our life. Grief is our complex, multi-layered response to loss. Sometimes the grief can be so intense and overwhelming that if feels as though we cannot function or know what to do next.
While we might think of grief as just an emotional response, but there are also physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Grief can be challenging to navigate alone. Know that you are not alone. I am here to help.
While we might think of grief as just an emotional response, but there are also physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Grief can be challenging to navigate alone. Know that you are not alone. I am here to help.
Join A Grief Cohort
While grief is a unique and individual experience, it helps to navigate the journey with others who can relate. Consider joining a cohort with other grievers for additional support and connection.
COHORT 2 MORNING: Mondays, Feb 12 - Mar 11 || 9:30-11am ET
COHORT 2 EVENING: Tuesdays, Feb 13 - Mar 12 || 7-8:30pm ET
COHORT 2 MORNING: Mondays, Feb 12 - Mar 11 || 9:30-11am ET
COHORT 2 EVENING: Tuesdays, Feb 13 - Mar 12 || 7-8:30pm ET
- Join from anywhere via Zoom
- Small groups for intimate sharing & connection
- Spiritual & embodied practices
- 5 weeks for one convenient price
My Journey To Grief Counseling
In June 2105 my wife of 16 years died from cancer. A few months after that I lost a favorite aunt, also to cancer. The following year it was my grand-father. By 2022 I also lost my grand-mother, my father, and one of my childhood best friends.
In spite of my knowledge and experience from years of being a music therapist, a pastor, and my own spiritual practices, I struggled with the immense amount of loss. I initially saw grief as something to overcome rather than embrace; as something outside of me rather than a pathway to the deepest parts of me.
After years of working with therapists, coaches, and energy healers, as well as attending grief support groups, I knew the work to support others on their grief journey was mine to do as well.
In spite of my knowledge and experience from years of being a music therapist, a pastor, and my own spiritual practices, I struggled with the immense amount of loss. I initially saw grief as something to overcome rather than embrace; as something outside of me rather than a pathway to the deepest parts of me.
After years of working with therapists, coaches, and energy healers, as well as attending grief support groups, I knew the work to support others on their grief journey was mine to do as well.
Grief Is A Spiritual Practice
What is a spiritual practice other than a repeated activity or process that enables us to meet and know the deepest parts of ourselves, and in so doing, meet and know All That Is, which we sometimes call God?
To surrender to grief means we feel and express every emotion that comes up, as often as it comes up, and let those emotions be the turn-by-turn directions that lead us to the parts of us that require the most healing.
To heal is to "make peace with what is, to cease struggling against the current experience, and to release any desire that the loss never happened, that they never left, they never died.
To heal, we must surrender to the very thing we have been trying to avoid. We must surrender to the grief. When we do, paradoxically it becomes the only spiritual practice that allows us to heal.
[Excerpts from my article "Grief as a Spiritual Practice"]
To surrender to grief means we feel and express every emotion that comes up, as often as it comes up, and let those emotions be the turn-by-turn directions that lead us to the parts of us that require the most healing.
To heal is to "make peace with what is, to cease struggling against the current experience, and to release any desire that the loss never happened, that they never left, they never died.
To heal, we must surrender to the very thing we have been trying to avoid. We must surrender to the grief. When we do, paradoxically it becomes the only spiritual practice that allows us to heal.
[Excerpts from my article "Grief as a Spiritual Practice"]