I came to grief work, as many of us do, through the experience of a deep personal loss. It was a complicated grief filled with fear, anxiety and confusion. It was loss so fracturing to the human heart that it took me nearly a decade to find my way back to my body, back to a sense of safety.

It was in this time that The Grief Space was born, a living breathing creation of everything I had been searching for, of everything I once needed. My early years of grief showed me the stark reality of how little our culture knows how to grieve, how to make space for it, how to help us move through it. With the desperation of longing and a whisper of hope, my grief led me on a pilgrimage to find the teachers, ceremonies and practices to hold me.

Little by little, I was guided through a deep journey of healing. Slowly I was shown the art of grief tending, the commitment to come back to ourselves over and over again through the practices of community, embodiment, ritual and rest. Having now sat with hundreds of people in grief, I trust that grief is not something to be feared but instead desires the simplicity of our presence, our welcome and our unconditional love.