Grief Companionship

We cannot control what happens to us. All we can do is work with what happens moment to moment. - Rabbi Rami Shapiro

It’s been over thirty years since Jennifer first met grief—grief as in love, vast and overflowing, with no place to land. In journeying with her own grief and the grief of others, she has come to understand that support is not a luxury, but a spiritual necessity.

Since you're here, maybe you agree?

Or maybe... you want to agree. You just haven't encountered the kind of care you that imagined would show up in this place, space and time.

You might also be living with ungrieved experiences. Things you've never brought up to anyone else because how can it be okay that you continue to mourn a loss that happened 20 years ago, a baby that was "only" six weeks gestation, a cancer diagnosis that did end well, or a relationship that "only" lasted for a moment in time?

There is no one experience of pain or hardship that gets to be the hardest. Whatever you're grieving, or want to grieve, is absolutely valid.

Far too often—we move through life’s most tangled, painful chapters without the witnessing, rituals, or soul care we need to stay bound to our bodies, minds and lives. And, because of this, we become untethered. But, we can re-tether—to ourselves, an old spiritual path (or a new one), the people we love, the things that make our souls sing, and to life itself.

Left untended, grief reshapes bodies, minds and lives.

And, we have the choice to tend to it.