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Join this online gathering to honor, remember, and celebrate our loved ones who are no longer with us. Please register below. See you on Saturday, July 18th @ 10 AM PST.

Journaling is what helped me during my grief journey.  It allowed me to have some unfinished conversations and to express my emotions without the need to filter or be concerned about how it landed on others.  That's why I created the Butterfly Years Journal.  

Here are a few prompts to get you started.

I’m so conflicted by AI and the emergence of “griefbots.”  I understand the comfort technology can offer, but I also believe there is something sacred about the quiet spaces grief creates, where memory, love, and sorrow are intertwined.  I’m curious what you think about griefbots.

apprecihate: Appreciating the lessons learned through grief, while hating the circumstances that forced those lessons.  

We all know grief doesn’t follow a timeline or a linear path, and it doesn’t take a break for the holidays. That’s why self-care is especially essential during this season. Taking gentle care of your emotional, physical, and mental well-being can provide much-needed space to process and heal.

What if exercising gratitude was like exercising a muscle? What if the more we used it, the stronger it became and the easier to tap into?  Gratitude has allowed me to reframe my relationship with grief and the people I have lost. Instead of focusing on what I no longer have, I choose to be grateful for loving them and grateful for the impact they had on my life. I am grateful that they still live within me and for the lessons they taught me.

Kintsugi, is a traditional Japanese art form dating back to the 15th century and involves repairing broken pottery with a lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. 

For me, Kintsugi is a visual representation of the jagged, crooked, painful lines of grief….broken, restored, beautiful, strong, whole again, and never forgotten.  

There are several opportunities in cities all over the world to gather with others who have experienced love and loss.   In addition, several online resources and books are available to help when you are ready to embark on your journey toward hope.

Sometimes we have a hard time articulating what is going on and how we are feeling. The following words of grief can help name our emotion. Once we've named them, we can start working through them and address them.

It's hard to witness someone's grief. We want to jump in and help and make the pain go away.  But it's not possible.  We can’t fix grief, and sometimes that leaves us paralyzed without knowing what to do or what to say.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to BE there.

A brief exercise to do in a gathering to honor, say goodbye, and build a ritual around grief and loss together.