Meeting at the River of Loss and Life

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Metabolising loss requires grieving.

And yet, how, when, even if to grief, remains elusive. Think of loosing loved ones, shattering dreams and certainties, challenges to your worldview, displacement, or finally descrying that nurturing, protection, and guidance in our childhood were sorely missing. All that needs grief imagination and skills. Most off us, alas, fall short of knowing how to metabolise the complex and time consuming aftermath of (many!) losses.

Finitudes (plurals!) beset us with heartbreak

Bodily and emotional pain spells the preciousness of what is lost and the demand to live with what is missing. All too often, though, the pain is muted, relegated to invisibility, bound by family traditions, and held hostage to our modern cultures’ impoverished relationship to grieving. All too often, we are left with a ‘tangled ball of emotions’.

Grief needs communal engagement, intimate companionship, and the shared breath of lament.

While it requires our respectful and ceremonial withnessing we instead, alas, revert to habitual management of emotions –the styles learned in infancy and childhood. We manage the ‘too-much-not-enough-and too painful’ through rationalising, contracting, and dissociating. An ever present ‘just-get-over-it’ enforces loneliness were, as said before, connected lamentation and the gift of goodness would ease.

Meeting at theRiver of Loss and Life

co-creates a space in which we cultivate heartfelt presence to what you never received, nor where taught to properly grieve. We offer

a deep dive into grief, supported by tender companionship

mutual support in feeling all manners of anger & sadness

share the world’s sorrows, too large to bear in isolation  

mend frayed family, ancestral, & communal fabrics

sincerely receive each other’s lament and despair

co-create ceremonial presence&practice

invoke grief imagination and possibilities 

disarm age-old loneliness

and, importantly, 

gift each other with fiercely truthful kindness

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!!!  Note !!!

An additional day of in depth study is offered on

June 15, 2025.

If you are interested in studying the work in more depth, this day offers
Q&A debriefing, follow up processing of your experiences (mini constellations) and collegial companionship.

To book this day, please, contact me via this email mendingtrauma101@duck.com