Being with Grief
through the Holidays
Recordings
Session 1: Embracing Winter's Stillness
Session 2: Reimagining the Holidays
Session 3: Honoring our ancestors
Our Time Together
by taking the time to truly BE with our grief, we can cultivate a generous heart throughout the season
Embrace
Winter's Stillness
On day one, we'll explore the parallels between the stillness and darkness of winter and the inward journey of grief, finding wisdom and strength in slowing down. Let's take time to be with it.
Redefine
the Holidays
On our second day together, we'll find ways to resist societal pressures and create a season of intentional boundaries and meaningful practices. Your holiday CAN look different this year.
Honor
your Loved Ones
On our final day together, we'll create new, meaningful ways to include loved ones who have passed in winter holiday traditions so that we may continue to include them in our lives.
I Am Making a Home Inside Myself
By Julia Fehrenbacher
I am making a home inside myself.
A shelter of kindness where everything is forgiven, everything allowed—a quiet patch of sunlight to stretch out without hurry,
where all that has been banished and buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to—released.
A fiercely friendly place I can claim as my very own.
I am throwing arms open to the whole of myself—especially the fearful, fault-finding, falling apart, unfinished parts, knowing
every seed and weed, every drop of rain, has made the soil richer.
I will light a candle, pour a hot cup of tea, gather
around the warmth of my own blazing fire. I will howl
if I want to, knowing this flame can burn through
any perceived problem, any prescribed perfectionism,
any lying limitation, every heavy thing.
I am making a home inside myself
where grace blooms in grand and glorious
abundance, a shelter of kindness that grows
all the truest things.”