Living with Grief

Life is change.  If we’re paying attention, there is always something to grieve and let go.  Every breath is gone once we exhale.

Specific losses can sting much more than others. 

I can support you in living with the loss of a loved one, divorce, estrangement, and other major life transitions. 

The key here is living with grief and moving through change by consciously letting go.  Grief itself, which marks our love, does not (and maybe should not) go away.  Grief replaces and stands in for what was lost. We achieve closure with any relationship (with person, place, object, life status) and then let the grieved live on as love. 

Some ritualized practices of grief expected people to actively grieve for years or for the rest of their lives! In many contemporary U.S. cultures, we complicate the grieving process when by trying to quickly move past or overcome grief.  Grief and the love and gratitude it includes should not to be overcome; it is to be welcome. Closure, however, should be pursued.

I can help you welcome grief, breathe with it, and keep your life moving with this change.