There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive.

~Francis Weller

Regardless of your divorce or separation being a welcomed or unwelcome experience, at the core, we are all facing the loss of a dream, a life, and identity. Processing through any transition in life is difficult, here, we share a common initiation.

When we come together in this sacred space for healing, we acknowledge all the unique dynamics in each relationship while understanding that at the core, we all experience the same human emotions. From this, we discover that we are connected, supporting and tending the wounds of a collective loss.

As a group, we hold a powerful potential for healing because of the amplification of energy—growing and inspiring positive change through sharing our experience and witnessing others.

True healing requires that we address all layers of our being, the physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual. Most often we process our grief through our story telling. It can be helpful but often doesn’t address the deeper layers of hurt that we hold in our tissue and in our psyche. We have to learn how to reconnect to the aspects of ourselves that have been disengaged in order to protect us and keep us from hurting. We have to learn how to feel while feeling safe. to self-witness without experiencing judgement, we have to reclaim our authenticity and shortcomings and what goes unconscious that keeps us from our healing potential.

Healing from divorce and separation isn’t like healing a skinned knee. This healing is a lifelong process as healing has a spiraling energy. What seems healed for a time can resurface through life triggers and memories, bringing the hurts and feelings to the surface again. Each spiral can get easier, but the nature of this loss is deep grief and grief can not be fixed. Rather, grief can be tended to with great skills and acceptance and kindness.

We are remembering how to grieve. We are learning the importance of tending to our grief because grief forms a foundation for how we show up in life.

We all come to grief through a different entry point.

Grief needs support and acknowledgment. It also needs times of solitude, silence, movement and stillness.

We have lost our traditions, rituals and ability to alchemize our grief through ceremony.

I welcome you to a sacred space for holding grief and renewal…

The GRIEF SANCTUARY

There are many ways we can honor grief. My own pathway of grief tending is by weaving grief through the energy of the sacred feminine, the rose and the 5 elements for EMBODIED grief.

~We use the medicine of the ROSE and ancient feminine mystery arts to tend to grief as a holistic healing modality.

~Grief doesn’t follow a single path. It flows through the wilderness. It’s terrain can be arduous.

~Grief is mutable, like nature, it can change, it has cycles and its path can wind and spiral in many directions and expressions.

~We can learn to navigate grief so that it begins to serve our lives through wisdom, insight, and growth.

~When we are present to our path, we see how the landscape and environment can be a map and guide to our way home.

~We are invited here to a contemplative approach of soul care. We are invited to steep in the essence of the ROSE of silence. Through this silence, contemplation, and stillness, we are invited to a deepening into the sacredness within, deepening self awareness: cultivating self witnessing and allowing. With self compassion we enter into our inner sanctuary, so we can become the most gracious host for our grief.

Our healing journey is not meant to be a solo one. No one should have to carry the burden of grief alone. Grief held in companionship, witnessed and warmed, is transformative. And yet, grief requires time. Here we learn to hold space for our own grief by holding space for other’s.

Here is what you can expect from these monthly meetings:

• Meet as a group online through ZOOM.

• Create sacred, safe space.

• Contemplative practices including, but not limited to, breath work, sacred reading, guided journeys, expressive arts, yantras, movement and ritual.

• Divine Guidance through the rose lineage, The Way of LOVE.

• Energetic alchemy to support the healing process and open to renewal.

• Opportunities for continued, individual, support and an invitation to the

• 5 Sacred Rites of Divorce & Separation.